Cloud and DevOps engineering # Your cloud and DevOps team, without building one. We design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and delivery pipelines on your cloud, your hardware, or ZCP. [Talk to our team](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/contact) [Explore ZCP](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/why-zcp) Built with enterprise and open-source technology Open source - ![Kubernetes](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/kubernetes.svg) - ![OpenStack](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/openstack.svg) - ![Apache CloudStack](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/apachecloudstack.svg) - ![Proxmox](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/proxmox.svg) - ![Ceph](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/ceph.svg) - ![OpenTofu](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/opentofu.svg) - ![Dokploy](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/dokploy.svg) - ![Argo CD](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/argocd.png) - ![Grafana](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/marketplace/grafana.svg) - ![OneUptime](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/oneuptime.svg) - ![Headscale](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/headscale.svg) Enterprise - ![AWS](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/aws.svg) - ![Microsoft Azure](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/azure.svg) - ![Google Cloud](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/googlecloud.svg) - ![GitHub](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/github.png) - ![Okta](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/okta.jpg) - ![JumpCloud](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/jumpcloud.png) - ![Datadog](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/datadog.png) - ![CrowdStrike](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/tech/crowdstrike.svg) Starts with A free discovery call Team ZSoftly engineers, not a reseller Runs on Your cloud, your hardware, or ZCP Engagement Scoped, built, and operated [Products and services](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/services) ## Two ways to work with us. Bring us the problem, or create a ZCP account and run it yourself. Most customers start with our team. ![Generated artwork of paired power rails and cabling routed to a central connection panel, with a small red status light.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/facility-artwork/engineering-team-card.svg) Engage our engineering team ### Professional Services We scope, build, and operate cloud architecture, migrations, Kubernetes platforms, and delivery pipelines, on your cloud, your hardware, or ZCP. - Architecture and design workshop with our engineers - Cloud migration, Kubernetes, and DevOps delivery - Security, identity, and managed operations - Runs on your cloud, your hardware, or ZCP - Operated end to end by ZSoftly $2,500 architecture workshop starts every engagement [Start a scoping conversation](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/contact) ![Generated artwork of two compute planes above a dense grid of storage bays, with a pair of small red status lights.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/facility-artwork/self-service-card.svg) Use ZCP yourself ### ZCP Self-Service Run AI, web, mobile, and desktop workloads on sovereign Canadian infrastructure, self-serve and live from day one, with predictable CAD pricing and no surprise bills. - AI, web, mobile, and desktop workloads - One-click marketplace apps, live in minutes - Two live regions, isolated by design - Free, unmetered transfer, no egress fees - Portable workloads, no lock-in Compute from $3.40 / mo · CAD billing [Create a ZCP account](https://cloud.zcp.zsoftly.ca/register) [What's new](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/updates) ## What we published, what we shipped. Recent posts and the latest shipped capability. ![ZCP blog cover: The ZCP Store is open. Buy from your console.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console.webp) Announcements October 11, 2026 ### [ZCP Store: Buy Services and Licences From Your Console](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console) The Store is a new tab in the ZCP console. Buy support, professional services, dedicated servers and licences there, and they bill on the same invoice as your instances. ZSoftly Team 5 min read ![ZCP branded engineering cover reading The restart that hid a bug, on a deep blue grid](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/the-restart-that-hid-a-libvirt-bug.webp) Engineering October 11, 2026 ### [The Restart That Hid a Libvirt Bug](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/the-restart-that-hid-a-libvirt-bug) A seven-minute VM create, two wrong turns, a self-healing timer I built and then deleted, and the package update that fixed it. Ditah Kumbong 9 min read ![Our CLI and Terraform provider reach v1](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-cli-terraform-v1.webp) Announcements October 11, 2026 ### [Our CLI and Terraform Provider Reach v1](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-cli-terraform-v1) ZCP CLI v1.0.1 and the Terraform and OpenTofu provider v1.0.0 are available today, bringing Pricing V2 configuration, Kubernetes role sizing, VM backup schedules, and lifecycle fixes to automation workflows. Ditah Kumbong 5 min read [Professional services](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/) ## 6 engineering capabilities, delivered end to end. Pick the capability that matches your problem. [![Diagram of source systems moving along a migration path into a target cloud architecture.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/capability-cards/cloud-architecture-migration.svg) ### Cloud architecture and migration A cloud architecture for your workload, and a migration plan with no downtime. Cloud architecture and migration](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/multi-cloud/) [![Diagram of paired infrastructure racks connected to a central private cloud control plane.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/capability-cards/platform-engineering-private-cloud.svg) ### Platform engineering and private cloud A private cloud on your hardware or ours, run like a platform, not a stack of servers. Platform engineering and private cloud](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/hybrid-cloud) [![Diagram of a four-stage delivery pipeline showing automated build, test, and deployment flow.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/capability-cards/devops-cicd-automation.svg) ### DevOps, CI/CD, and automation Pipelines that ship changes in minutes, with infrastructure as code behind every environment. DevOps, CI/CD, and automation](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/devops/) [![Diagram of application pods connected to a central Kubernetes orchestration layer.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/capability-cards/kubernetes-container-platforms.svg) ### Kubernetes and container platforms Production Kubernetes with GitOps delivery, on the cloud or platform you already run. Kubernetes and container platforms](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/containers/) [![Diagram of a secure access boundary with authorization routes and monitored security states.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/capability-cards/security-identity.svg) ### Security and identity Access controls, identity, and compliance evidence that hold up under a real audit. Security and identity](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/security/) [![Diagram of service telemetry signals, operational baselines, and an active alert state.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/capability-cards/managed-operations-observability.svg) ### Managed operations and observability A team watching your infrastructure around the clock, catching incidents before customers do. Managed operations and observability](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/devops/observability) What are you here to do? ## We plan the cutover, move the workload, and design the target architecture. [See migration and multi-cloud services](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/multi-cloud/) [Not sure? Talk to our team](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/contact) Or tell us who you are ### Built for the workloads you're accountable for. [Every industry and solution](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions) ![An open book surrounded by course modules, a student record, a small compute cluster, and a lecture video frame.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/education.webp) #### Education Protect student data, hold your budget, and stay free of vendor lock-in. [Explore Education](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/education) ![A shield holding a policy document, with a claim moving along a processing track, a risk curve, a sealed archive box, and a flagged data grid.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/insurance.webp) #### Insurance Keep years of policy and claims files in the region you choose, at a cost you can predict. [Explore Insurance](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/insurance) ![A financial ledger and vault, with a payment terminal, a regulatory report, a transaction graph with one flagged node, and an API connector.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/finance.webp) #### Finance Remove FX exposure and keep financial data in the region you choose. [Explore Finance](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/finance) ![A model core with a node graph above it, a document feeding a retrieval arrow, an embedding grid, a processor, and an experiment tracking panel.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/ai.webp) #### AI & Machine Learning Build AI on infrastructure you control, in the jurisdiction you choose. [Explore AI & Machine Learning](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/ai) ![A medical cross with a pulse line, beside a patient record, a medical imaging panel, a clinician on a telemedicine screen, and a locked data store.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/healthcare.webp) #### Healthcare & Life Sciences Know where clinical and research data lives, and who runs the platform it sits on. [Explore Healthcare & Life Sciences](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/healthcare) ![A balance scale and case file, with a document production stack, a matter folder, a locked envelope, a billing timer, and a contract sheet.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/legal.webp) #### Legal & Professional Services Protect privilege with a verifiable answer about where the file lives. [Explore Legal & Professional Services](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/legal) ![A civic building portico with a citizen service portal, a records archive, a workforce directory, an analytics chart, and a procurement document.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/government.webp) #### Public Sector & Crown Corporations A vendor that clears procurement on residency, ownership, and audit. [Explore Public Sector & Crown Corporations](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/government) ![A central operations console serving three client panels, with a managed virtual machine, a private cloud enclosure, a backup cylinder, and an observability waveform.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/msp.webp) #### MSPs & Channel Partners A predictable margin and a private-cloud practice under your own brand. [Explore MSPs & Channel Partners](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/msp) ![A research compute cluster and data store, with a dataset repository, a collaboration panel, a grant document, and an open data portal card.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/research.webp) #### Research & Non-profit Organizations Meet grant-residency rules and stretch every dollar of funding. [Explore Research & Non-profit Organizations](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/research) ![An application window with a module grid, a three-stage delivery pipeline, an API connector, a data processing stream, and two separated tenant groups.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/saas.webp) #### SaaS & Software Companies Protect your margin and win the enterprise deals residency was blocking. [Explore SaaS & Software Companies](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/saas) ![A blue storage cabinet with one drawer open to show media tiles, surrounded by a clapperboard, a film strip, a game controller, archive boxes, a phone with a play button, a download box, and headphones.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/industries/media.webp) #### Media, Streaming & Gaming Store large media libraries and game builds, and move them without transfer fees. [Explore Media, Streaming & Gaming](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/media) Running more than one cloud? [Hybrid Cloud](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/solutions/hybrid-cloud) is a deployment model, not an industry. It works alongside any of them. How we work ## One process, two ways it ends. A project hands the infrastructure back to your team. A managed engagement stays with ours. 01 ### Assess We map your workloads, constraints, and budget, then hand you a written plan and a fixed price before any work starts. 02 ### Design We design the environment around your requirements: performance, security, compliance, and cost. Nothing off a template. 03 ### Build Our engineers build, migrate, and validate the environment. Your team stays informed and in control without carrying the delivery work. 04 ### Operate A project engagement ends with a full handover, so you keep the keys. An ongoing engagement moves into managed operations under an SLA instead. Every practice area, its services, and how to book the workshop live onProfessional Services. [See the full delivery process](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/professional-services/) [Start a scoping conversation](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/contact) Evidence and trust ## Built on an open foundation, verified where it counts. ZCP is new, the foundation is not. We build on mature, open-source systems, so you avoid lock-in. Engagements run on ZCP, your existing cloud, or your own hardware. IaaS orchestration ### Apache CloudStack An Apache Software Foundation project for public, private, and hybrid IaaS clouds. [Source: Apache CloudStack](https://cloudstack.apache.org/users) Distributed storage ### Ceph Backed by the Linux Foundation's Ceph Foundation, with 30+ members including Canonical, Intel, and Red Hat. [Source: Linux Foundation](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linux-foundation-launches-ceph-foundation) Container platform ### Kubernetes CNCF reports 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production. [Source: CNCF](https://www.cncf.io/reports/the-cncf-annual-cloud-native-survey/) Observability ### Prometheus + Grafana CNCF's second graduated project, paired with Grafana Labs, which reports 7,000+ customers. [Source: CNCF / Grafana Labs](https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2018/08/09/prometheus-graduates/) ### Customer outcomes Every study is anonymized at the client's request. The numbers are the proof, drawn from the published engagement. [See every case study](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/case-studies) [Healthcare Technology 12 weeks 52% reduction Monthly AWS Cost Healthcare Tech Company Cuts AWS Costs 52% While Achieving SOC 2 Compliance Critical Security Findings 127 to 0 Application Response Time 8.2 sec to 1.2 sec Read the full case study](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/case-studies#case-aws-cloud-optimization-security-enhancement) [E-Commerce / Retail 20 weeks 100% resolved Security Findings E-Commerce Company Achieves PCI-DSS Level 1 Compliance and Prevents $500K+ in Fines PCI-DSS Compliance Failed to Level 1 Certified Enterprise Sales $8M blocked to $8M unblocked Read the full case study](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/case-studies#case-cloud-security-compliance-implementation) [Financial Services (FinTech) 16 weeks 97% faster Deployment Duration FinTech Startup Achieves 1,200% Increase in Deployment Frequency with Zero-Downtime Releases Deployment Frequency 2/week to 25/week Production Incidents/Month 12 to 0.7 Read the full case study](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/case-studies#case-devops-transformation-automation) ### Certifications and credentials Team credentials, facility certifications, and ZSoftly's certification status: three separate things, tracked below. Team credentials #### 7 certification areas, held individually Current AWS, Azure, CNCF, CompTIA, Google Cloud, Linux, and Project management certifications, earned individually and listed by name. [Full credential directory](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/team) Facility certifications #### SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, at the facility Held by the Tier III facility operator hosting ZCP's production region, not by ZSoftly. ZSoftly certification status #### SOC 2 and ISO 27001: on our roadmap On the roadmap, not yet complete. We document current controls and data-residency guarantees now. [Review the technical foundation](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/about/tech-stack) ZCP self-service platform The self-service platform behind everything we build. ## Your workload. Your jurisdiction. ZCP is the compute, storage, and Kubernetes platform ZSoftly runs on. Deploy in two live Canadian regions. Live regions YUL-1 Montréal, Canada Live Primary production region YOW-1 Ottawa, Canada Live Development, test, and private-cloud demos Regional footprint [See the ZCP roadmap](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/roadmap) ### Create your account Register and deploy your first VM in minutes. New accounts get CA$100 in promotional credit, up to CA$300 total. [Terms apply](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/legal/terms#launch-credit) ### Predictable pricing Compute plans start from $3.40 / mo CAD, published and metered with no egress fees. [See full pricing](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/pricing#compute) ### Documentation Guides for deploying compute, storage, and Kubernetes on ZCP, written for the platform you are running. [Read the docs](https://docs.zcp.zsoftly.ca/) Two live Canadian regions, CAD billing, $0 egress. Prefer to have our engineers build and operate it for you instead?[Talk to our team](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/contact). [Create a ZCP account](https://cloud.zcp.zsoftly.ca/register) [Explore ZCP](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/why-zcp) Did you find what you were looking for? Thanks for letting us know. If something was missing,[tell our team](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/contact). Get started ## Have an infrastructure, migration, or delivery challenge? Bring us the problem. We scope it, price it, and build it with you. [Talk to our team](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/contact) [See pricing](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/pricing) ZSoftly Technologies Inc., Ottawa ON