The GitOps Model

Observability Stack

What I Learned

Who I Am Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. That's not DevOps. That's manual labor with extra steps. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform that handles deployments, secrets, observability, and self-healing with zero human intervention after setup. What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code and your cloud. It handles: Most companies pay Humanitec or Backstage $50k+/month for this.

I built it from scratch. Developer pushes code to GitHub↓GitHub Actions builds + scans the image↓Docker image pushed to registry↓ArgoCD detects manifest change in Git↓ArgoCD syncs to k3s Kubernetes cluster↓Prometheus scrapes metrics from all pods↓Grafana visualizes — AlertManager fires on anomalies↓Loki aggregates all logs k3s over kubeadmSingle binary. Boots in under 5 minutes. Full Kubernetes API. Production-proven by Rancher. ArgoCD over FluxBetter UI for drift visibility. Multi-cluster support. Stronger RBAC controls. Built-in auto-remediation. Sealed-Secrets over HashiCorp VaultNo external dependencies. Secrets live encrypted in Git.Only the cluster can decrypt. Zero operational overhead. Prometheus + Grafana over DatadogFull data ownership. No per-host billing.Custom retention. Industry standard. GitHub Actions over JenkinsNo server to maintain. Native Git integration.YAML pipelines. Free for public repos. Everything is declarative. No imperative commands in production. This is self-healing infrastructure. Dashboards track: cluster health, pod restarts, deployment status, ArgoCD sync state, node memory/CPU. Real DevOps is not about knowing commands.It's about designing systems that run themselves. Observability is not optional — if you can't see it, you can't fix it. Security must be designed in from day one.Not bolted on after. Git is not just version control. In GitOps, Git is your deployment engine. Architecture docs, tech decisions, security model, CI/CD pipeline, Terraform IaC — all documented. 17-year-old self-taught DevOps Engineer from Nigeria.Building infrastructure that enterprises pay millions for. Available for DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering roles globally. If this helped you — share it. If you're hiring — let's talk. Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. as well , this person and/or - How code gets deployed- How secrets are managed- How the system monitors itself- How failures get detected and fixed - You commit a change to Git- ArgoCD detects the drift between Git and cluster state- ArgoCD automatically syncs — no human needed- If a pod crashes, ArgoCD detects and resyncs- Prometheus fires an alert, Grafana shows the anomaly - Network policies: default deny all, explicit allow per service- RBAC: least-privilege service accounts per workload- Sealed-Secrets: no plaintext secrets anywhere- Trivy: scans every image before it touches the cluster- Audit logging: every API call recorded - Metrics — Prometheus collects from every pod- Logs — Loki aggregates from every container- Alerts — AlertManager fires to Slack on anomalies