# Deployment & Operations Guide

## Deployment Model

* Declarative Kubernetes manifests
* Applied via `kubectl` or Argo CD
* No Helm dependency

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## General Rules

* Stateless apps by default
* PVCs required for state
* Secrets via Kubernetes Secrets
* Config via environment variables

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## Deployment Order (Recommended)

1. Networking (Cilium, Ingress)
2. cert-manager
3. Storage (PVs)
4. Databases (Postgres, Redis, Kafka)
5. Observability stack
6. ML tooling
7. Automation tools
8. Custom applications

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## Operations

* Monitor via Grafana
* Debug via logs & traces
* Upgrade via Git commits
* Rollback via Argo CD

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## Backup Strategy

* MinIO buckets versioned
* Database snapshots
* Git repositories mirrored