Building a Production-Ready GitOps Platform on AWS EKS
After successfully building my ECS + Terraform project, I knew I needed to fill a gap in my portfolio: Kubernetes on AWS. While ECS is great for straightforward containerized workloads, most enterprise environments I’m targeting use Kubernetes. I needed to prove I could work with both. So I built a production-ready EKS cluster with a full GitOps workflow using ArgoCD, complete with RDS for persistence, multi-AZ networking, and automated deployments. Here’s the story of how it came together - including the 8 debugging issues that taught me the most. ...