software. platform. automation.
Continuous Production Readiness.
We take over, modernise and run business-critical software for companies without an operations team of their own – in Germany, Austria and Sweden.
- ShippableBuild, test and rollback at the push of a button
- ObservableYou see failures before your customers do
- RecoverableRestore tested, not just a backup
- Known supply chainEvery dependency inventoried
- Handover-readyRun by your team or by us, ready to hand over at any time
How many of these can your system tick today?
Does this sound familiar?
- What we do
- We lay the foundation: delivery at the push of a button, access management, monitoring and backups.
- Evidence
- Built the complete delivery foundation for an energy data platform from scratch.
- First step
- A fixed-price check. Result: prioritised gaps and a plan.
- What we do
- Every pipeline reports its software bill of materials (SBOM); every night we check all of them against current vulnerability data.
- Evidence
- An in-house software inventory, in use for our own systems.
- First step
- A fixed-price inventory. Result: bill of materials, known vulnerabilities, priority order.
- What we do
- We uncover what the system actually does, pin it down with tests and continue to develop or run it.
- Evidence
- Took over a B2B SaaS in logistics: analysed, stabilised and fully run by us ever since.
- First step
- A fixed-price assessment. Result: system overview, risks, plan.
- What we do
- We take stock, prove that recovery works and bring GitLab and its runners up to date in a reproducible way.
- Evidence
- Took over an orphaned GitLab instance with more than 300 projects and migrated it without data loss.
- First step
- A fixed-price stocktake. Result: an update plan with a tested restore.
- What we do
- We run a real restore in a separate environment, measure how long it takes and how current the data is, and write down the procedure.
- Evidence
- Built a migration entirely with Ansible, restore included, and proved it that way.
- First step
- A fixed-price restore test. Result: a written record with the measured recovery time.
- What we do
- We build a self-service platform: templates, pipelines and a tool that teams use to create and update their environments themselves.
- Evidence
- Our own platform: every application goes live through a merge request.
- First step
- A fixed-price review of one specific pipeline. Result: prioritised weaknesses and next steps.
Who is behind CDDS
Fred Thiele · Founder · in development, build and operations since 2008
“Fred has a rare ability to take a complex problem, work through it systematically, and iterate until he has found a robust, maintainable, long-term solution.”Lead Cloud Architect · former colleague, later on the client side
More about Fred ThieleHow we work
We analyse first, with our own tools, clearly and without frills.
We help with the implementation, but the goal is your independence.
To us, DevOps and CI/CD are signposts, not a religion.
Talk to us about your system