Kubernetes GitOps on AWS

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Demonstration shows a Ghost blog deployed to EKS with Git-driven infrastructure: a branch merge triggers CodePipeline/CodeBuild to run AWS CDK, which creates a CloudFormation change set and provisions an RDS instance plus a Secrets Manager secret; Flux monitors the repo and applies Kubernetes manifests so the deployment scales from 1 to 2 pods, the ALB target count rises from 1 to 2 across two AZs, and the ALB Ingress Controller and Flux sync handle DNS, certs and secret upserts automatically.

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1. 0:00Introduction to GitOps
2. 1:05What is GitOps
3. 3:32GitOps with Flux and CDK
4. 8:26Kubernetes operators on AWS
5. 9:50Demo overview
6. 12:40Live demo walkthrough
7. 22:14Conclusion and next steps

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