While setting up Apache Airflow using Docker on Windows 11 WSL, I needed to extend the image to install some python packages. I created a dockerfile and requirements.txt, but every time I ran "docker-compose up --build", I received the error: ERROR: Invalid requirement: '<package-name': Expected semicolon (after name with no version specifier) or end To fix the error, I needed to change the encod
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