Deployment Stack Revamp with IaC and GitOps

The client came to me with a classic mess: inconsistent environments, brittle shell scripts, broken deploys, and developers afraid to touch production.

I came in on a retainer and did a full audit of their deployment stack. Over time, we transitioned critical services to IaC with Terraform and Ansible, added service health checks, replaced manual deploys with a GitOps flow, and introduced light CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

We also revamped SSH access control and internal service documentation, making it safe for devs to ship without paging the one "infra guy" at 2AM.

This wasn’t a flashy rebuild. It was slow, deliberate, and deeply satisfying. The kind of work that makes teams faster, safer, and more confident.