Building SwiftDeploy: From Declarative Deployments to Policy-Gated Releases

Building SwiftDeploy: From Declarative Deployments to Policy-Gated Releases Introduction SwiftDeploy is a DevOps deployment tool I built as part of the HNG DevOps Track. The project started as a deployment automation task and later became a policy-gated and observable deployment system. In Stage 4A, I built the deployment engine. The tool could read a manifest.yaml file, generate infrastructure files, deploy the stack, and switch between stable and canary modes. In Stage 4B, I extended the proje