The Problem Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code How code gets deployed How secrets are managed How the system monitors itself How failures get detected and fixed Most companies pay Humanitec or Backsta
We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real p
ABOUT THIS LAB Microsoft Learn was one of those sessions that looks simple first until you hit a permission wall you did not expect like I did. Here is the full walkthrough, including the gotcha that tripped me up. The objective of this lab is to configure an Azure Storage account that can host public-facing content such as images, videos, and documents while supporting high availability, soft del