CI/CD & GitOps

📅May 23, 2026
🏷️Infrastructure
⏱️2 min

Continuous integration and deployment practices using GitOps principles, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes-native tools.

Articles

Monitoring Stack

Complete monitoring stack deployment with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.

What you’ll learn:

  • Setting up Prometheus for metrics collection
  • Configuring Grafana for visualization
  • Alertmanager for alert routing
  • Integration with Kubernetes

Staging with Kustomize

Environment-specific configurations using Kustomize overlays.

What you’ll learn:

  • Kustomize basics and best practices
  • Creating staging overlays
  • Managing environment-specific configs
  • Integration with ArgoCD

CI/CD Practices

Our deployment workflow follows GitOps principles:

Pipeline:

Git Push → GitHub Actions → Build & Test → Build Image
  → Push to Harbor → Update Manifests → ArgoCD Sync → Deploy to K8s

Key Tools:

  • GitOps: Git as single source of truth
  • ArgoCD: Declarative continuous delivery
  • Helm: Package management and templating
  • Kustomize: Configuration management without templates
  • GitHub Actions: CI pipeline automation
  • Harbor: Private container registry

Testing Strategy:

  • Unit tests on every commit
  • Integration tests before merge
  • E2E tests on staging
  • Automated rollback on failure

Deployment Strategies

  • Rolling Updates: Zero-downtime deployments
  • Blue-Green: Instant rollback capability
  • Canary: Progressive traffic shifting
  • GitOps: Declarative, auditable, version-controlled

Monitoring & Observability

Every deployment is monitored with:

  • Prometheus metrics
  • Grafana dashboards
  • Alertmanager notifications
  • ArgoCD health checks
  • Application logs

Learn more about observability →