Beginner tierDeploy one app to a local kind cluster — Pod, Deployment, Service, and port-forward, end to end.
Intermediate tierProduction-shape the beginner Deployment — ConfigMap env, liveness/readiness probes, resource limits, rolling update, and scaling.
Advanced tierFull production cluster — Helm, Ingress, cert-manager TLS, StatefulSets, GitOps with ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana, Loki logging, RBAC, and hardening.
Argo StackEvent-driven GitOps pipeline — Argo Events triggers Argo Workflows triggers ArgoCD sync. Webhook-to-deploy on kind, all local.