Building a Policy-Gated Deployment System with Observability (SwiftDeploy Stage 4B)

Introduction In Stage 4A, I built a CLI tool (swiftdeploy) that generates infrastructure from a single file (manifest.yaml). In Stage 4B, I extended it to include: Observability (metrics) Policy enforcement (OPA) Auditing (history + reports) The goal was simple but strict: The system must refuse to deploy or promote if it is unsafe. This meant moving from just “running containers” to building a system that can think and decide before acting. ⸻ Architectural Overview manifest.yaml ↓ swiftdeploy C