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From: WSL Office <babypinkislovee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:53:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add roadmap and engineering journey

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+# DevOps Learning Journey
+
+## Purpose
+
+This document records the engineering decisions, problems encountered, and lessons learned while building this repository.
+
+It serves as a technical journal and interview reference.
+
+---
+
+## 2026-07-15
+
+### Repository Foundation
+
+Completed:
+
+* Repository standards
+* EditorConfig
+* Git Attributes
+* CODEOWNERS
+* CONTRIBUTING
+* SECURITY
+* LICENSE
+
+Added quality gates:
+
+* pre-commit
+* yamllint
+* markdownlint
+* actionlint
+* shellcheck
+
+Lesson learned:
+
+Quality should be enforced before code reaches GitHub.
+
+---
+
+### CI Refactor
+
+Archived the original workflow.
+
+Split the monolithic workflow into:
+
+* ci.yml
+* security.yml
+
+Reason:
+
+Each workflow should have a single responsibility.
+
+Benefits:
+
+* Easier debugging
+* Faster execution
+* Better scalability
+* Cleaner pipeline
+
+---
+
+### Challenges
+
+Python on Ubuntu (PEP 668)
+
+Issue:
+
+System Python prevented installing packages globally.
+
+Solution:
+
+Created a Python virtual environment.
+
+Used:
+
+python -m pip
+
+instead of:
+
+pip
+
+---
+
+### Tooling Installed
+
+* Git
+* Docker
+* Helm
+* Kind
+* kubectl
+* Go
+* actionlint
+* pre-commit
+* yamllint
+* markdownlint
+
+---
+
+## Next Objective
+
+Push the CI refactor.
+
+Review GitHub Actions.
+
+Fix failures.
+
+Merge the Pull Request.
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-# Roadmap
+# Shop DevOps - Platform Engineering Roadmap
 
-## Implemented locally
+## Vision
 
-- Pinned upstream Astronomy Shop Helm deployment
-- kind cluster definition
-- Render, schema validation, configuration scanning, and SBOM CI checks
-- Local-only access and a frontend availability runbook
+Transform this repository into a production-grade Platform Engineering repository demonstrating enterprise DevOps practices.
 
-## Next, after the local baseline is stable
+The goal is not only to deploy the Astronomy Shop application, but to build the surrounding engineering platform exactly like a real DevOps team would.
 
-1. Pin third-party GitHub Actions to full commit SHAs and manage updates through Dependabot.
-2. Add a policy engine (Kyverno) and test policies against rendered manifests.
-3. Add Prometheus alert rules and Alertmanager with a local webhook receiver.
-4. Add a controlled failure test and document its expected telemetry.
-5. Add GitHub Container Registry only when you build an application-owned image.
+---
 
-## Intentionally deferred
+## Current Status
 
-AWS, EKS, managed databases, and public ingress require an account, IAM design, and cost controls. They are not required to demonstrate the local DevOps platform and should not be claimed as implemented.
+## Repository
+
+* [x] Repository created
+* [x] Git branching strategy
+* [x] Pull Request workflow
+* [x] Repository standards
+
+## Repository Standards
+
+Completed
+
+* [x] .editorconfig
+* [x] .gitattributes
+* [x] LICENSE
+* [x] SECURITY.md
+* [x] CONTRIBUTING.md
+* [x] CODEOWNERS
+
+---
+
+## Phase 1 — Repository Quality
+
+Status: ✅ Completed
+
+Implemented
+
+* pre-commit
+* yamllint
+* markdownlint
+* shellcheck
+* actionlint
+
+Repository now performs quality validation before every commit.
+
+---
+
+## Phase 2 — GitHub Actions Refactor
+
+Status: 🚧 In Progress
+
+Completed
+
+* Archive original workflow
+* Create ci.yml
+* Create security.yml
+* Split validation and security responsibilities
+
+Pending
+
+* Push workflows to GitHub
+* Verify Actions
+* Fix workflow failures
+* Merge Pull Request
+
+---
+
+## Phase 3 — CI Improvements
+
+Planned
+
+* Composite Actions
+* Reusable Workflows
+* Dependency caching
+* Parallel jobs
+* Matrix builds
+* Artifact uploads
+* Helm caching
+* Better failure reporting
+
+---
+
+## Phase 4 — Platform Validation
+
+Planned
+
+* kubeconform
+* kube-linter
+* Helm lint
+* Helm template
+* Kind integration testing
+* Kubernetes smoke tests
+
+---
+
+## Phase 5 — DevSecOps
+
+Planned
+
+* Trivy
+* Trufflehog
+* Gitleaks
+* Detect Secrets
+* SBOM
+* Cosign
+* SLSA Provenance
+* OPA / Conftest
+
+---
+
+## Phase 6 — GitOps
+
+Planned
+
+* ArgoCD
+* FluxCD comparison
+* Progressive delivery
+* Rollbacks
+* Health checks
+
+---
+
+## Phase 7 — Observability
+
+Planned
+
+* Prometheus
+* Grafana
+* Loki
+* Tempo
+* Jaeger
+* OpenTelemetry
+* Alertmanager
+
+---
+
+## Phase 8 — Release Engineering
+
+Planned
+
+* Semantic Versioning
+* Conventional Commits
+* Changelog generation
+* GitHub Releases
+* Release automation
+
+---
+
+## Phase 9 — Infrastructure
+
+Planned
+
+* Terraform
+* Remote State
+* AWS
+* IAM
+* Networking
+* EKS
+* GitHub OIDC
+
+---
+
+## Phase 10 — Production Readiness
+
+Planned
+
+* Disaster Recovery
+* Backup Strategy
+* Multi Environment
+* Secrets Management
+* Monitoring
+* Cost Optimization
+
+---
+
+## Learning Objectives
+
+By the end of this repository the following skills should be demonstrated.
+
+## Git
+
+* Branching
+* PR workflow
+* Reviews
+* Git history
+
+## GitHub
+
+* Actions
+* Environments
+* Secrets
+* Reusable workflows
+* Composite actions
+
+## Kubernetes
+
+* Helm
+* Kind
+* Deployments
+* StatefulSets
+* Services
+* Ingress
+* ConfigMaps
+* Secrets
+
+## Security
+
+* Supply Chain Security
+* Image Scanning
+* Secret Scanning
+* SBOM
+* Signing
+
+## DevOps
+
+* CI
+* CD
+* GitOps
+* Release Engineering
+* Platform Engineering
+
+---
+
+## Current Task
+
+Current Branch
+
+feature/ci-refactor
+
+Current Objective
+
+Push the refactored GitHub Actions workflows to GitHub.
+
+Create a Pull Request.
+
+Review failures.
+
+Fix failures.
+
+Merge after validation.
+
+---
+
+## Rules
+
+Always work through Pull Requests.
+
+Never push directly to main.
+
+Every feature gets its own branch.
+
+Every change must pass local pre-commit checks.
+
+Every PR must pass GitHub Actions.
+
+Never merge failing pipelines.
+
+---
+
+## Definition of Done
+
+The repository should resemble a real enterprise Platform Engineering repository and be suitable to showcase during DevOps interviews.