SwiftDeploy: Building a Manifest-Driven Stack

Most deployment setups do not fail because the tools are weak. They fail because the process drifts: one person edits nginx.conf , another tweaks Compose, and soon nobody knows what the real deployment contract is. SwiftDeploy solves that with a simple principle: declare intent once in manifest.yaml , and make everything else derived and verifiable. It started as a config-generation CLI, but it became more useful when policy and observability were added. The interesting part is not that it creat