Cloud-Enabled Smart Manufacturing with GitOps Integration

As a small to medium-sized enterprise in the manufacturing and production industry, we encounter significant challenges in managing our infrastructure efficiently while maintaining high production quality. We propose to implement a comprehensive cloud and DevOps project centered around GitOps principles. This initiative involves deploying Kubernetes for container orchestration, Terraform for infrastructure as code, and Docker for container management. To ensure real-time monitoring and observability, we will integrate Prometheus and Grafana, while Jenkins will be used for continuous integration and deployment. Additionally, ArgoCD will facilitate automated deployments in a multi-cloud environment. This project is pivotal for streamlining our production processes, reducing operational overhead, and enhancing scalability. Our goal is to transition from manual to automated infrastructure management, thereby minimizing errors and enabling rapid response to production changes. With a budget of $25,000 to $75,000, we anticipate completing this project within 8-12 weeks, which aligns with our medium urgency level.