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A Ship Boring build-in-public series

Build, Break & Operate

Boring deploys are a feature. This series documents building a platform where that's true by design.

Most deploy pipelines are exciting in the wrong way — manual steps, silent failures, untested rollbacks. This series builds the opposite: every promotion is a merged PR, every gate is policy-as-code, rollback is measured in seconds.

Start with Post 0
PROVISION
TerraformEKS (spot, OIDC, IRSA)
DELIVER
Helm (hand-written)ArgoCD GitOps
PROTECT
Kyverno policy-as-code
RELEASE
Argo Rollouts canaryKEDA + SQS
OBSERVE
Prometheus + Grafana SLOs
  1. public primitives only
  2. hand-written load-bearing parts
  3. failure drills mandatory — an unrehearsed rollback path is fiction
  4. cost is a feature — public cost ledger
  5. everything ships as it happens, including what breaks

In this series

  1. Post 0

    Build, Break & Operate — a Ship Boring build-in-public series

    Seven years building platforms on in-house tooling, rebuilt on vanilla Kubernetes in public: build it, break it deliberately, then you've earned the right to operate it.