# Co-Managed Infrastructure with Shared Responsibility

Source: https://forgeone.solutions/en/co-managed-infrastructure
Language: en
Published: 2026-09-05
Updated: 2026-10-13

ForgeOne operates Linux, Kubernetes and open source infrastructure together with your IT team: clear responsibilities, less key-person risk and senior expertise on demand.

Managed Services

## Co-Managed Infrastructure with Shared Responsibility

Your IT team keeps control while ForgeOne takes clearly defined infrastructure and platform responsibilities.

Co-managed infrastructure is useful when an internal IT team exists, but senior expertise for Linux, Kubernetes, automation, monitoring or security is not available at all times.

- [Book a first call](https://forgeone.solutions/en/contact#book-appointment)

Previous step

## Next useful project step

Previous: Managed Linux. This page builds on that step without repeating the full journey.

- [Managed Linux](https://forgeone.solutions/en/managed-linux)

## Typical starting points

These situations show when the service is technically and commercially useful.

### Key-person risk

Linux or Kubernetes knowledge depends on few people, making absence hard to cover.

### Keep control

Internal IT remains responsible for business, processes and functional decisions.

### Senior expertise without a full-time hire

ForgeOne complements the customer team selectively or continuously within the defined scope.

## Service scope

The concrete scope is defined per project or operating model.

### Customer

Business/application ownership, internal processes and functional priorities.

### Together

Changes, incidents, architecture, security and capacity planning.

### ForgeOne

Linux, Kubernetes/OpenShift, monitoring, patch management, backup/recovery, automation and expert support depending on scope.

## Delivery approach

1. 01: Define scope

Goals, systems, responsibilities and boundaries are defined together.

2. 02: Deliver

The agreed tasks are delivered in a traceable and documented way.

3. 03: Validate

Results, risks and open points are validated and prioritized.

4. 04: Handover

Operations, support or next steps are connected cleanly.

Next step

## Next service

Next: Support & SLA. Internal links point directly to the canonical target URL.

- [Support & SLA](https://forgeone.solutions/en/support-sla)

## Related solutions and next steps

Not every service currently has enough specific knowledge articles. Until then, related topic areas are linked without automatic latest-post lists.

### Enterprise Linux

IT solution

Linux operations, distributions, lifecycle and platform foundations.

### Automation & IaC

IT solution

Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps as a technical capability.

### Monitoring & Logging

IT solution

Observability, alerting and operational data for stable platforms.

## Common questions about co-managed infrastructure

### Is this full outsourcing?

Not necessarily. The model is designed for shared responsibility. Full operations can be agreed separately.

### Who is responsible for what?

Responsibilities are defined and documented per customer to avoid grey areas in operations.

### Is this suitable for small IT teams?

Yes, especially when specialist knowledge is missing selectively or second/third-level support is needed.

## Want to define the right service scope?

In a free first call we classify your current situation, target picture and useful next steps.

- [Book a first call](https://forgeone.solutions/en/contact#book-appointment)

## Related solution clusters

Co-managed operations work better when responsibilities are clear across infrastructure and observability clusters.

- Linux & Infrastructure
- Monitoring & Observability

[Linux & Infrastructure](https://forgeone.solutions/en/linux-infrastructure)

## Next step

We identify the right cluster for your initiative together.

[Book a free consultation](https://forgeone.solutions/en/contact#book-appointment)