A GitOps Architecture from Scratch: Gitlab, Ansible, Terraform, Kub and AWS

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A full GitOps platform built from scratch using Terraform to provision three AWS EKS clusters (tfstate in S3), GitLab CI for pipelines, and Ansible to bootstrap clusters and install cert-manager and nginx ingress. Helm charts templatize applications while ArgoCD continuously syncs deployments; Zalando Postgres Operator provides replicated Postgres with automatic failover and 5‑minute S3 backups, and ECK, Prometheus/Grafana and Rancher handle logs, metrics, and cluster operations. The demo shows deleted resources recovered by ArgoCD within minutes and estimates about USD 760 cost for the demo clusters.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 7:46Infrastructure as Code
3. 12:22What is GitOps
4. 13:57Docker vs Kubernetes
5. 22:34Kubernetes basics
6. 35:01EKS cluster setup
7. 48:24Terraform live coding
8. 1:03:13Ansible configuration
9. 1:15:49Q&A
10. 1:30:40GitOps demo with ArgoCD
11. 1:49:403-tier app deployment
12. 2:01:37Multi-environment management
13. 2:10:54Observability setup
14. 2:23:49Full GitOps summary
15. 2:35:32Conclusion

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