Project: Production Deployment Pipeline | Kubernetes & Helm Course

Project 4: Production Deployment Pipeline

What You'll Build

Design and implement a full GitOps deployment pipeline for the Helm chart from Project 3. This capstone project ties together Helm, autoscaling, deployment strategies, and cluster operations.

Concepts Applied

GitOps workflow with ArgoCD or Flux
ArgoCD Application manifest pointing to the Helm chart
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with CPU and custom metrics
PodDisruptionBudgets for zero-downtime updates
Health checks: liveness, readiness, startup probes
Canary deployment strategy with Argo Rollouts
Rollback automation on failed health checks
Monitoring with Prometheus ServiceMonitor

Pipeline Architecture

Git Push → GitHub/GitLab
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         ArgoCD detects drift
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         helm template + diff
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         Canary rollout (10% → 50% → 100%)
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         Prometheus metrics check
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         Pass? ──── Fail?
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       Promote      Rollback

Content coming soon. This capstone project brings everything together into a production-grade deployment pipeline. You'll implement GitOps, progressive delivery, autoscaling, and automated rollback — the full stack of production Kubernetes operations.