Cloud Ninjas Production Platform

cloud-ninjas, a production-grade designed to simulate real-world enterprise environments.

Project Goal

Build, secure, and operate a RESTful application platform with:

Full CI/CD automation

Docker & Kubernetes orchestration

Helm & ArgoCD (GitOps)-driven deployments

Security, observability, autoscaling, and rollback strategies

High-Level Architecture

Client → Ingress (TLS) → Services → Deployments (non-root containers)

Configuration via ConfigMaps & Secrets

HPA for autoscaling based on CPU and RAM

RBAC, NetworkPolicies, ResourceQuotas & LimitRanges for governance

CI pipelines build, scan, and promote images

CD handled via Helm & ArgoCD across dev → stage → prod

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions pipeline with:

Linting & unit testing

SonarCloud code quality scan

Docker image build & Trivy vulnerability scanning

Smoke testing on Kubernetes (Minikube)

CIS Benchmark using kube-bench

GitOps model:

CI updates image tags in Git

ArgoCD automatically syncs desired state to the cluster

Security & Reliability

Containers run as non-root

Least-privilege RBAC

Network isolation via NetworkPolicies

Automated vulnerability scanning

Rollback-ready Helm releases

Defined runbooks, SLOs/SLIs, and failure drills

Observability & Scalability

Health & readiness probes

Metrics endpoints prepared for Prometheus

Logs structured for aggregation

Designed for Grafana

HPA validated with synthetic load testing