🚀 DevOps Platform --- End-to-End Cloud Native Deployment

A full production-style DevOps project demonstrating modern cloud-native practices including CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, and observability.

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🧠 Overview

This project showcases a complete DevOps lifecycle:

• Application built with Next.js + Firebase
• Containerized using Docker
• Automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions
• GitOps deployment using ArgoCD
• Progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts (Blue/Green)
• Hosted on AWS EC2 (k3s Kubernetes cluster)
• Public access via Ingress (Traefik + nip.io)

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🏗️ Architecture

Developer → GitHub → GitHub Actions → Docker Hub → GitOps Repo → ArgoCD → Kubernetes → Users

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⚙️ Tech Stack

🚀 Application

• Next.js 16
• Firebase (Auth + Firestore)
• Tailwind CSS

🐳 Containerization

• Docker (multi-stage build)
• Node 20 Alpine

🔄 CI/CD

• GitHub Actions
• Docker Buildx
• Docker Hub registry

📦 GitOps

• ArgoCD
• Separate GitOps repository
• Kustomize-based manifests

🚦 Deployment Strategy

• Argo Rollouts
• Blue/Green deployment
• Zero-downtime switching

☁️ Infrastructure

• AWS EC2 (t3 instance)
• k3s (lightweight Kubernetes)
• Traefik Ingress Controller

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🔁 CI/CD Pipeline

✅ Continuous Integration

• Trigger: push to main
• Build Docker image
• Push to Docker Hub
• Tag with commit SHA + latest

✅ Continuous Deployment (GitOps)

• Update image tag in GitOps repo
• ArgoCD detects change
• Automatically syncs cluster

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🔥 Key Features

• 🚀 Zero Downtime Deployment (Blue/Green)
• 🔄 GitOps Workflow
• 🧠 Automated Image Updates
• 🌐 Public Access via Ingress