Case study · Platform

Infrastructure changes through pull requests

How I won buy-in for GitOps, moved engineers to read-only cloud access and made every infrastructure change reviewed and auditable.

Result: Engineers moved to read-only cloud access; every change reviewed and logged.

Context

Several teams shared cloud accounts and Kubernetes clusters.

Problem

Engineers changed cloud resources by hand, with no consistent review or audit trail.

Approach

Built a working demo, won senior engineers over, and got Atlantis and ArgoCD adopted as shared services. Set standards for modular Terraform repositories and ran workshops.

Result

Read-only cloud access for engineers.
Every infrastructure change reviewed in a pull request and logged.
Continuous delivery unblocked.

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