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AWS · Checklist

AWS Production Readiness Checklist

47 checks across security, reliability, performance and cost optimization. Used by our team before every go-live on AWS. Covers VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS, CloudFront, Route 53 and monitoring.

Security IAM VPC RDS EKS CloudFront
47 checks · PDF · Free
Kubernetes · Security

Kubernetes Security Hardening Guide

Production hardening patterns for EKS clusters: RBAC, Pod Security Standards, NetworkPolicies, Secrets encryption, image scanning and audit logging. Based on real production deployments.

RBAC NetworkPolicy PSS Secrets Audit Logs EKS
60+ patterns · PDF · Free
GitOps · ArgoCD

GitOps Implementation Playbook

Step-by-step guide to implementing GitOps with ArgoCD: repository structure, app-of-apps pattern, sync policies, drift detection, Helm values per environment and rollback procedures.

ArgoCD Helm App-of-Apps Drift Detection Rollback
Step-by-step guide · PDF · Free
Terraform · IaC

Terraform Module Best Practices

Production module patterns for multi-environment AWS infrastructure: remote state with locking, workspace strategy, variable validation, output contracts and module versioning for team codebases.

Modules Remote State Workspaces Validation Multi-env
Patterns & examples · PDF · Free
Kubernetes · Production

Kubernetes Production Standards

Our internal checklist for taking a Kubernetes cluster to production. Based on real EKS deployments in healthcare and financial environments.

Resource Limits Health Checks Pod Security HPA NetworkPolicy EKS
Production checklist · PDF · Free
1.2k downloads
GitOps · Runbook

GitOps Implementation Runbook

Step-by-step runbook for implementing GitOps with ArgoCD on AWS EKS. Based on our production deployments.

ArgoCD EKS App-of-Apps Sync Policies Helm Drift Detection
Step-by-step runbook · PDF · Free
934 downloads
Security · CI/CD

DevSecOps Pipeline Guide

How to integrate security into your CI/CD pipeline. OIDC federation, SAST with SonarQube, container scanning and policy gates.

OIDC SonarQube Container Scanning Policy Gates SAST GitHub Actions
Security pipeline guide · PDF · Free
615 downloads
Observability · Monitoring

Observability Stack Setup Guide

Production observability with Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch. Alert rules, dashboard templates and escalation runbooks.

Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Alert Rules Dashboards Escalation
Setup guide + templates · PDF · Free
518 downloads
Architecture Blueprints
Architecture · AWS

AWS Landing Zone Blueprint

Multi-account AWS strategy with Security Account, Shared Services and workload OUs. SCPs, GuardDuty and centralized CloudTrail across all accounts.

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Architecture · Kubernetes

EKS Production Blueprint

Production-grade EKS with managed node groups, ArgoCD GitOps, External Secrets Operator, HPA and CloudWatch Container Insights.

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Architecture · GitOps

GitOps Platform Blueprint

Automated delivery with GitHub Actions CI, ArgoCD CD and OIDC authentication. Git as the single source of truth for all deployments.

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Architecture · Observability

Observability Blueprint

Prometheus + Grafana + Fluent Bit + CloudWatch. Alert rules, dashboard templates and escalation runbooks for production workloads.

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