Modernisation and end-of-life | Firemind
Modernisation and end-of-life

Know what is going out of support.Before it does.

Every end-of-life date in the estate on one timeline, with a path off each one.

Scope a pilot →
Lifecycle report in week one
Read from the live estate
Well-Architected Review
All six pillars
Changes as pull requests
Delivered as a cadence
The problem

End-of-life dates are the one class of finding that arrives with a deadline nobody can move.

A database engine version, an operating system, a function runtime. Each has a date, and the date does not care about the roadmap.

The IT Operations Engine puts every end-of-life date in the estate on one timeline, sets it in the context of a full Well-Architected Review, and starts the modernisation work at the configuration layer, captured as code.

What has to be true before you can plan

  • One timeline covering every end-of-life date across the estate, not a spreadsheet per team
  • Lifecycle data read from the live estate on every run, so it cannot go stale between reviews
  • The servers that cannot be rebuilt, because their source images no longer exist, identified explicitly
  • Findings prioritised into a remediation backlog rather than delivered as an undifferentiated list
  • A second report that shows the trend, not a one-off audit
What we do

One timeline, one review, one backlog.

The engine reads every lifecycle date from the running estate and sets them against a Well-Architected Review across all six pillars. Configuration-level modernisation is applied live and made permanent as code. Deeper re-engineering is scoped per asset, with you, one at a time.

Lifecycle inventory
Well-Architected Review
Configuration modernisation
Remediation backlog
Scheduled cadence

Find, fix, keep green

    • Find - Every end-of-life date across the estate. Database engine versions, operating systems, function runtimes, extended-support deadlines, and the servers that cannot be rebuilt because their source images no longer exist. The Well-Architected Review across all six pillars gives the wider picture, with findings prioritised into a remediation backlog.
    • Fix - Configuration-level modernisation applied live and made permanent as code. Database instances tuned to best practice, with each change verified against the running configuration and raised as a pull request. Deeper re-engineering is scoped per asset with you, one at a time.
    • Keep green - End-of-life dates flagged ahead on a schedule. The review delivered as a cadence rather than a one-off audit, so the second report shows the trend.

Want to see the dates before you plan the year?

A read-only lifecycle report across the accounts in scope, usually within the first week.

Scope a pilot →
How it starts

A lifecycle report first. The review second.

Both are read-only. Nothing changes in the estate until you have seen the dates and decided the order.

  • Read-only lifecycle report

    A report across the accounts in scope, usually within the first week, listing every end-of-life date the engine can read from the live estate.

    • Database engines, operating systems and function runtimes
    • Extended-support deadlines
    • Servers whose source images no longer exist

  • Well-Architected Review

    The review runs across all six pillars, setting the lifecycle dates in a wider context and prioritising what it finds into a remediation backlog.

    • All six pillars assessed
    • Findings prioritised, not just listed
    • A backlog you can plan against

  • Modernisation at the configuration layer

    Configuration changes are applied live and made permanent as code, verified against the running configuration and raised as a pull request. Deeper re-engineering is scoped one asset at a time.

    • Each change verified against what is actually running
    • Pull request per change
    • Re-engineering scoped per asset, with you
What stays with you

Which assets to modernise, and in what order.

The engine shows the dates and the effort. The priority is yours.

You gain:

  • Lifecycle data is read from the live estate on every run, not from a spreadsheet.
  • Modernisation here is infrastructure and configuration. Application-level work is scoped separately, under application modernisation.
  • The review is delivered as a cadence, so the second report shows the trend rather than repeating the first.

FAQ

Questions.

Not on this page. Modernisation here is infrastructure and configuration. Application-level work is scoped separately, under application modernisation.

It is read from the live estate on every run, not from a spreadsheet.

Start with a read-only lifecycle report.

Tell us which accounts are in scope. The first report is usually available within a week, and the Well-Architected Review follows.

Your benefits:

  • One timeline - every end-of-life date in the estate.
  • Read live - from the running estate, on every run.
  • Six pillars - a full Well-Architected Review, prioritised.
  • A cadence - so the second report shows the trend.

What happens next?

Talk.

A focused discussion about the estate and the deadlines you already know about.

Report.

A read-only lifecycle report across the accounts in scope, usually within the first week.

Review.

The Well-Architected Review, then modernisation in the order you set.

No obligation. Just a focused discussion about what is going out of support.

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