MISSION_001

Production EKS Security Hardening

ENVIRONMENTAWS GovCloud
STACKEKS · Kyverno · Istio · NetworkPolicy
FOCUSSecurity · Networking · Compliance

Hardened production EKS cluster from baseline to CIS-compliant. Implemented Kyverno admission policies, default-deny network policies, and Istio mTLS across all services. Reduced attack surface by 70%.

KyvernoIstioNetworkPolicyCIS Benchmark
MISSION_002

Centralized Egress Architecture

PROBLEMUnrestricted outbound traffic
APPROACHIstio Egress Gateway · ServiceEntries
RESULTControlled external communication

Designed and deployed a centralized egress architecture using Istio Egress Gateway and ServiceEntries. All outbound traffic now routes through audited, monitored gateways with explicit allowlists.

IstioEgress GatewayServiceEntrymTLS
MISSION_003

Full-Stack Observability Platform

STACKGrafana · Loki · Mimir · Tempo · Alloy
SCOPEMulti-cluster · Multi-tenant
OUTCOMEMTTR 45m → 8m

Built and deployed the full Grafana LGTM stack across a multi-cluster environment. Unified logs, metrics, and traces into a single pane. Mean time to resolution dropped from 45 minutes to under 8 minutes.

GrafanaLokiTempoMimirAlloy

If it runs in production,
we monitor it.

Full-stack observability across logs, metrics, and distributed traces.

2,847
REQ / SEC
99.98%
UPTIME
124ms
P99 LATENCY
0.02%
ERROR RATE
24
ACTIVE PODS
LOGS
Loki · Alloy
[INFO] 15:23:41 api-server started successfully on :8080
[INFO] 15:23:42 health check passed: all 24 pods ready
[WARN] 15:23:43 rate limit approaching configured threshold
[INFO] 15:23:44 argocd sync completed: revision abc1234f
[INFO] 15:23:45 kyverno policy admitted 3/3 pods
METRICS
Prometheus · Mimir · Grafana
REQUEST RATE (req/s)
CPU UTILIZATION (%)
TRACES
Tempo · Istio
GET /api/health
12ms
POST /api/deploy
312ms
GET /api/pods
48ms
PUT /api/config
124ms
GET /metrics
8ms

Every Resource Defined,
Versioned, and Auditable.

Every resource defined, versioned, reviewed, and applied through a controlled pipeline.

📝
Terraform
Modular HCL, reusable modules, state in S3
🔧
Terragrunt
DRY configs, environment hierarchy
🚀
Spacelift
Policy-driven automation, drift detection
AWS
EKS · VPC · IAM · RDS · S3 · Route53 · KMS
spacelift: terraform plan
$ spacelift run --stack production-eks
Initializing provider plugins...
Refreshing Terraform state in-flight...
Terraform generated the following execution plan:
# aws_eks_node_group.workers will be updated in-place
~ resource "aws_eks_node_group" "workers" {
+ desired_size = 5 # (was 3)
+ max_size = 10 # (was 6)
}
Plan: 18 to add, 2 to change, 0 to destroy.
✓ Infrastructure validated
✓ Security policies passed
✓ Cost estimate: +$124.50/month
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