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Capstone Project: Mini Internal Developer Platform

Each participant builds and demos a mini Internal Developer Platform for a fictional healthcare or payments company. A new service goes from a portal click to production, then survives a seeded failure.

Terraform Infrastructure Pipeline

Infrastructure provisioned from Terraform modules through a plan-on-PR pipeline with LocalStack and remote state.

Backstage Golden-Path Template

One-click service creation generating repository, CI pipeline, Argo CD application, SLOs, and dashboards automatically.

GitOps Delivery & Admission Control

Application deployment via Argo CD with signed images (cosign) and Kyverno security admission policies enforced.

OpenTelemetry & Automated SLO Alerting

Telemetry pipeline capturing traces, metrics, and logs with automated burn-rate alerts generated via Sloth/OpenSLO.

Load Testing & Capacity Cost Report

Saturation testing using k6 and cost-per-service analysis using OpenCost.

Chaos Recovery & Blameless Postmortem

Handling seeded production failures through alerts, rollbacks, or Velero restores, followed by a blameless postmortem.

Automated Remediation Controller

Custom Kubernetes controller written in Python/Go that safely remediates known failure patterns with guardrails.