Automation reduces how often engineers wait on tickets for accounts, access, or patching, and it gives leadership predictable evidence for audits. It spans Infrastructure as Code, pipelines, policy gates, runbooks, and self-service paths so product teams consume platforms instead of negotiating them.
We build automation across the lifecycle: provision (Terraform, OpenTofu), configure (Ansible), deliver (GitOps with ArgoCD / Flux), govern (OPA, Sentinel, native cloud policies) and observe (Prometheus, Grafana, native cloud monitors).
Three intertwined tracks we run on every engagement.
Self-service patterns for the 80% of requests product teams have: a new service, a new environment, a new secret, a new database. Codified, documented, available behind a pull request.
Security, network and tagging rules expressed as code (OPA, Sentinel, native cloud policies) and run inside CI. Bad changes never reach production; auditors see the same evidence as engineers.
Patching, scaling, fail-over and incident response encoded in Ansible playbooks, Lambda / Functions and event-driven workflows: fewer humans on the critical path, more on the design path.
You want a small platform team to serve a large product organisation without becoming the bottleneck.
You are forming an internal platform team and need a credible automation backbone in months, not years.
Your change advisory board is the bottleneck. We automate the safe changes so the board can focus on the rest.
You operate in a regulated sector and need policy-as-code, evidence collection and continuous compliance dashboards.
Our engineers' default question is "can this be code?". You'll feel the difference in week one.
ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and NEN 4400-1 certified. Compliance-aware automation isn’t an upsell.
We can run the automated platform 24/7, or hand it back when your team is ready.
The Factory is a Dutch cloud consultancy based in Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland). We work with organisations across the Randstad (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven), and with customers elsewhere in the European Union. Our architects and platform engineers operate in Dutch and English, with experience on AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
Mostly mid-size and enterprise organisations across the Netherlands: in financial services, public sector, healthcare, education, industry, and SaaS. Engagements range from a short cloud assessment to long-running managed cloud operations.
The Factory B.V.
Veraartlaan 12
2288 GM Rijswijk, The Netherlands
info@thefactory.nl
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