Continuous Deployment

I’ve set up 50+ GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines deploying to Kubernetes. Most teams spend weeks debugging permission issues, image pull errors, and failed deployments. Here’s what actually works in production. Visual Overview: graph LR subgraph "CI/CD Pipeline" Code[Code Commit] --> Build[Build] Build --> Test[Test] Test --> Security[Security Scan] Security --> Deploy[Deploy] Deploy --> Monitor[Monitor] end style Code fill:#667eea,color:#fff style Security fill:#f44336,color:#fff style Deploy fill:#4caf50,color:#fff Why This Matters According to the 2024 State of DevOps Report, teams with mature CI/CD practices deploy 46x more frequently with 7x lower change failure rates. Yet I’ve seen teams abandon Kubernetes deployments after hitting GitHub Actions’ notorious “ImagePullBackOff” errors and RBAC nightmares. ...

Visual Overview: graph LR subgraph "CI/CD Pipeline" Code[Code Commit] --> Build[Build] Build --> Test[Test] Test --> Security[Security Scan] Security --> Deploy[Deploy] Deploy --> Monitor[Monitor] end style Code fill:#667eea,color:#fff style Security fill:#f44336,color:#fff style Deploy fill:#4caf50,color:#fff In the realm of cloud computing and DevOps, managing Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies is a critical task that often requires precision and consistency. Manual configuration of IAM policies is error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to audit. This is where GitOps comes into play, offering a declarative approach to automate the deployment and management of IAM policies. By leveraging GitOps principles, organizations can ensure that their IAM policies are version-controlled, consistently applied, and automatically deployed across environments. ...