Building a self-service Kubernetes platform
Deployment lead time down 95%, zero-downtime releases by default.
Kubernetes GitOps Terraform ArgoCD
The challenge
The team was shipping a growing SaaS product onto a fleet of manually managed virtual machines. Every release meant a sequence of SSH sessions, hand-run scripts, and a nervous on-call engineer. Environments drifted, rollbacks were risky, and onboarding a new service took the better part of a week.
What I built
- Infrastructure as code. Every cluster, network, and IAM binding defined in Terraform, reviewed in pull requests, and applied through CI — no more click-ops.
- GitOps delivery. ArgoCD continuously reconciles the cluster to a Git repository, so the desired state is always visible and auditable.
- Golden paths. A small set of reusable Helm charts and templates so teams can ship a new service with a single merge request.
- Progressive delivery. Canary rollouts and automated health gates that halt a bad release before it reaches users.
The outcome
Release lead time dropped from days to minutes, deployments became a non-event, and the platform now onboards new services in hours. On-call load fell as environments stopped drifting and rollbacks became a one-click operation.