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ermnvldmr.com Platform is the complete cloud-native infrastructure, automation pipeline, and GitOps delivery system powering all ermnvldmr.com production services.

The platform is designed around strict infrastructure-as-code principles, immutable golden OS images, secret encryption at rest, automated continuous reconciliation, and zero-downtime rolling updates.

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Documentation Sections

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Key Platform Characteristics

• Immutable Golden Images: Standardized Debian 12 + K3s base built via Packer and QEMU, isolated and stored in S3.
• Autonomous First-Boot Initialization: Cloud-Init automatically provisions storage, network hardening, firewall, age encryption secrets, and bootstraps Flux GitOps without requiring manual console access.
• Declarative GitOps Engine: Flux v2 continuously reconciles Kubernetes cluster state against the next branch in GitHub.
• End-to-End Encryption: SOPS + Age encrypts all sensitive secrets in Git; Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare Full (Strict) secure all public traffic.
• Automated Production Rollout Verification: Release pipelines query public /version.json probes to verify that rolling updates actively serve user traffic before finishing.