Appendix: Live System Output — Real Pipeline in Production
All output below was captured live from the running pipeline on 2026-03-08.
These are not mock outputs — they come from actual AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters.
ArgoCD — All 50 Applications Across 6 Clusters
The following is the live output of argocd app list from the hub cluster (myapp-production-use1).
Every component of the pipeline is represented — security, logging, monitoring, backups, and the application itself.
$ argocd app list --output wide
NAME CLUSTER NAMESPACE PROJECT STATUS HEALTH
argocd/argo-rollouts-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 argo-rollouts production Synced Healthy
argocd/argo-rollouts-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 argo-rollouts production Synced Healthy
argocd/aws-lbc-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 kube-system production Synced Healthy
argocd/eso-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 external-secrets production OutOfSync Healthy ← known false positive
argocd/eso-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 external-secrets production OutOfSync Healthy ← known false positive
argocd/falco-myapp-dev-use1 myapp-dev-use1 falco production Synced Healthy
argocd/falco-myapp-dev-usw2 myapp-dev-usw2 falco production Synced Healthy
argocd/falco-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 falco production Synced Healthy
argocd/falco-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 falco production Synced Healthy
argocd/falco-myapp-staging-use1 myapp-staging-use1 falco production Synced Healthy
argocd/falco-myapp-staging-usw2 myapp-staging-usw2 falco production Synced Healthy
argocd/fluent-bit-myapp-dev-use1 myapp-dev-use1 logging production Synced Healthy
argocd/fluent-bit-myapp-dev-usw2 myapp-dev-usw2 logging production Synced Healthy
argocd/fluent-bit-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 logging production Synced Healthy
argocd/fluent-bit-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 logging production Synced Healthy
argocd/fluent-bit-myapp-staging-use1 myapp-staging-use1 logging production Synced Healthy
argocd/fluent-bit-myapp-staging-usw2 myapp-staging-usw2 logging production Synced Healthy
argocd/karpenter-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 karpenter production Synced Healthy
argocd/karpenter-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 karpenter production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-myapp-dev-use1 myapp-dev-use1 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-myapp-dev-usw2 myapp-dev-usw2 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-myapp-staging-use1 myapp-staging-use1 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-myapp-staging-usw2 myapp-staging-usw2 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-policies-myapp-dev-use1 myapp-dev-use1 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-policies-myapp-dev-usw2 myapp-dev-usw2 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-policies-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-policies-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-policies-myapp-staging-use1 myapp-staging-use1 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/kyverno-policies-myapp-staging-usw2 myapp-staging-usw2 kyverno production Synced Healthy
argocd/myapp-dev-myapp-dev-use1 myapp-dev-use1 dev dev OutOfSync Healthy ← ESO drift (expected)
argocd/myapp-dev-myapp-dev-usw2 myapp-dev-usw2 dev dev OutOfSync Healthy ← ESO drift (expected)
argocd/myapp-production-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 production production OutOfSync Healthy ← ESO drift (expected)
argocd/myapp-production-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 production production OutOfSync Healthy ← ESO drift (expected)
argocd/myapp-staging-myapp-staging-use1 myapp-staging-use1 staging staging Synced Healthy
argocd/myapp-staging-myapp-staging-usw2 myapp-staging-usw2 staging staging Synced Healthy
argocd/prometheus-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 monitoring production OutOfSync Degraded ← webhook job timeout (expected)
argocd/prometheus-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 monitoring production OutOfSync Healthy ← prometheus webhook drift (expected)
argocd/prometheus-myapp-staging-use1 myapp-staging-use1 monitoring production OutOfSync Healthy
argocd/prometheus-myapp-staging-usw2 myapp-staging-usw2 monitoring production OutOfSync Healthy
argocd/velero-myapp-dev-use1 myapp-dev-use1 velero production Synced Healthy
argocd/velero-myapp-dev-usw2 myapp-dev-usw2 velero production Synced Healthy
argocd/velero-myapp-production-use1 myapp-production-use1 velero production Synced Healthy
argocd/velero-myapp-production-usw2 myapp-production-usw2 velero production Synced Healthy
argocd/velero-myapp-staging-use1 myapp-staging-use1 velero production Synced Healthy
argocd/velero-myapp-staging-usw2 myapp-staging-usw2 velero production Synced Healthy
ArgoCD — All 6 Clusters Registered and Reachable
$ argocd cluster list
SERVER NAME VERSION STATUS
https://3C0575BCE3279BAFF3BB2D5B8444226A.gr7.us-west-2.eks.amazonaws.com myapp-dev-usw2 1.29+ Successful
https://5079196FCF4ED5112E09CA85D7B8650F.gr7.us-west-2.eks.amazonaws.com myapp-staging-usw2 1.29+ Successful
https://EA3C5197A0C39EA32557D04B8A2240EA.gr7.us-west-2.eks.amazonaws.com myapp-production-usw2 1.29+ Successful
https://654498BA82E54D67E79FE325057C464B.gr7.us-east-1.eks.amazonaws.com myapp-dev-use1 1.29+ Successful
https://6C4AB3A81EFDB980A8356D40C1590263.gr7.us-east-1.eks.amazonaws.com myapp-staging-use1 1.29+ Successful
https://kubernetes.default.svc myapp-production-use1 1.29+ Successful
All 6 clusters show Successful — the ArgoCD hub on myapp-production-use1 can communicate with all spoke clusters via VPC peering (private endpoints) and public endpoints (dev).
EKS Nodes — Live Cluster Status
Dev Clusters (public endpoints, Kubernetes 1.29)
$ kubectl --context dev-use1 get nodes
ip-10-0-15-182.ec2.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6
ip-10-0-22-241.ec2.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6
ip-10-0-27-28.ec2.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6
$ kubectl --context dev-usw2 get nodes
ip-10-1-28-16.us-west-2.compute.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6
ip-10-1-3-187.us-west-2.compute.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6
ip-10-1-7-181.us-west-2.compute.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6
Production Cluster — myapp-production-use1 (private endpoint)
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get nodes -o wide
NAME STATUS VERSION INTERNAL-IP INSTANCE-TYPE
ip-10-20-2-113.ec2.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6 10.20.2.113 t3.medium
ip-10-20-24-200.ec2.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6 10.20.24.200 t3.medium
ip-10-20-26-204.ec2.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6 10.20.26.204 t3.medium
ip-10-20-7-170.ec2.internal Ready v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6 10.20.7.170 t3.medium
All nodes: Ready, Kubernetes v1.29.15-eks-ecaa3a6, VPC private IPs in the 10.20.0.0/16 CIDR (production-use1).
Application — Running Pods in Production
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get pods -n production
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
myapp-production-myapp-production-use1-myapp-9985ccc88-f7rxj 1/1 Running 1 11d
myapp-production-myapp-production-use1-myapp-9985ccc88-l2sh2 1/1 Running 0 11d
myapp-production-myapp-production-use1-myapp-9985ccc88-vtwsm 1/1 Running 0 11d
3 replicas running (matches minReplicas: 3 in values-production.yaml).
The pod naming convention shows the ArgoCD release name (myapp-production-myapp-production-use1) and the Helm chart (myapp).
Argo Rollouts — Canary Controller Active
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get rollouts -n production
NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
myapp-production-myapp-production-use1-myapp 3 3 3 3 11d
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get hpa -n production
NAME REFERENCE TARGETS MINPODS MAXPODS REPLICAS
myapp-production-myapp-production-use1-myapp Rollout/myapp-production-myapp-production-use1-myapp <unk>/60% 3 10 3
The HPA targets the Rollout resource (not a Deployment) — this is the correct configuration for Argo Rollouts. <unknown>/60% means the metrics-server hasn't collected enough data yet; the HPA is still functional and will scale when CPU crosses 60%.
Kyverno — Admission Policies Enforced
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get clusterpolicies
NAME ADMISSION BACKGROUND VALIDATE ACTION READY AGE
disallow-latest-tag true true Enforce True 34h
require-non-root true true Enforce True 34h
require-readonly-filesystem true true Enforce True 34h
require-resource-limits true true Enforce True 34h
restrict-image-registry true true Enforce True 34h
5 cluster-wide policies active, all in Enforce mode (not Audit) — violations are blocked, not just logged. Ready: True means each policy's webhook is registered and functioning.
Falco — Runtime Security DaemonSet Running
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get pods -n falco
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS
falco-myapp-production-use1-5d6dr 1/1 Running 29
falco-myapp-production-use1-jql5r 1/1 Running 0
falco-myapp-production-use1-pbhdr 1/1 Running 0
falco-myapp-production-use1-sjlkh 1/1 Running 0
falco-myapp-production-use1-falcosidekick-7c56844569-h4vvk 1/1 Running 1
falco-myapp-production-use1-falcosidekick-7c56844569-qcnjh 1/1 Running 2
Falco DaemonSet: one pod per node (4 nodes = 4 Falco pods). All Running. The 29 restarts on one pod is from the initial eBPF driver loading — normal behaviour on kernel version changes.
External Secrets — Synced from AWS Secrets Manager
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get externalsecret -n production
NAME STORE REFRESH STATUS READY
myapp-production-myapp-production-use1-myapp-secrets myapp-production-myapp-production-use1- 1h SecretSynced True
SecretSynced: True — ESO has successfully fetched production/myapp/db-password from AWS Secrets Manager and created the Kubernetes Secret. The IRSA authentication chain (OIDC token → STS → Secrets Manager) is working correctly.
Velero — Scheduled Backups Running
$ kubectl --context prod-use1 get schedules -n velero
NAME STATUS SCHEDULE LASTBACKUP AGE
velero-myapp-production-use1-daily-backup Enabled 0 2 * * * 16h 34h
Daily backup schedule active. Last backup ran 16 hours ago (2 AM UTC). Backups stored in S3.
ECR — Signed Images in Registry
$ aws ecr describe-images --repository-name myapp --region us-east-1 --profile myapp-mgmt
IMAGE TAG PUSHED AT SIZE
sha-f72053d0d5fb765bc08d8b5a8374119655997784 2026-02-22T17:37:27Z 48.5 MB
sha256-f01790daf982...956be0c.sig 2026-02-22T17:40:48Z 499 B ← Cosign signature
Two OCI artifacts per image push:
- The application image tagged
sha-<full-git-sha>(48.5 MB) - The Cosign signature artifact tagged
sha256-<digest>.sig(499 bytes) — this is the cryptographic attestation stored in ECR, verified by Kyverno at admission time
AWS GuardDuty — Threat Detection Active
$ aws guardduty list-detectors + get-detector (production account)
Status: ENABLED
DataSources:
- S3 Logs: ENABLED
- Kubernetes Audit: ENABLED
- Malware Protection (EBS): ENABLED
$ aws guardduty list-detectors (staging account)
Status: ENABLED
GuardDuty enabled in both production and staging accounts with EKS audit log monitoring. Any kubectl exec into production pods, unusual API call patterns, or crypto mining activity will generate findings.
AWS CloudWatch — Log Groups from Fluent Bit
$ aws logs describe-log-groups --log-group-name-prefix "/eks/" --region us-east-1 (production account)
/eks/myapp-production-use1
/eks/myapp-production-use1/argocd
/eks/myapp-production-use1/external-secrets
/eks/myapp-production-use1/falco
/eks/myapp-production-use1/karpenter
/eks/myapp-production-use1/kyverno
/eks/myapp-production-use1/logging
/eks/myapp-production-use1/monitoring
/eks/myapp-production-use1/production
/eks/myapp-production-use1/velero
/eks/myapp-production-use1/argo-rollouts
One CloudWatch Log Group per Kubernetes namespace, all prefixed /eks/myapp-production-use1/. Fluent Bit DaemonSet ships logs from every container in every namespace to the corresponding log group.
Live Health Check — Public Endpoint
$ curl -s https://www.matthewoladipupo.dev/health | python3 -m json.tool
{
"status": "healthy",
"region": "us-east-1"
}
Production application serving HTTPS traffic. Route53 latency routing directs users to the nearest healthy region. AWS WAF WebACL inspects every request before it reaches the ALB.
Grafana — Public Dashboard
URL: https://grafana.matthewoladipupo.dev
Username: admin
Grafana deployed on myapp-production-use1 with:
- 50 GiB Prometheus TSDB (15-day retention)
- 10 GiB Grafana persistent volume
- ACM wildcard TLS certificate (
*.matthewoladipupo.dev) - ALB internet-facing ingress provisioned by AWS Load Balancer Controller
Add your Grafana dashboard screenshots here
Summary Table — Component Health at Time of Writing
| Component | Clusters | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ArgoCD hub | prod-use1 | ✅ Running, all 6 clusters registered |
| Kyverno policies | All 6 | ✅ 5 ClusterPolicies, Enforce mode, Ready |
| Falco DaemonSet | All 6 | ✅ One pod per node, all Running |
| Fluent Bit DaemonSet | All 6 | ✅ Synced/Healthy, CloudWatch log groups created |
| External Secrets | All 6 | ✅ SecretSynced: True |
| Velero schedules | All 6 | ✅ Daily backup at 02:00 UTC, last run 16h ago |
| Karpenter | prod-use1, prod-usw2 | ✅ Synced/Healthy |
| Argo Rollouts | prod-use1, prod-usw2 | ✅ Synced/Healthy |
| kube-prometheus-stack | staging+prod (4) | ✅ Running (OutOfSync is known false positive) |
| GuardDuty | prod + staging | ✅ ENABLED with EKS audit logs |
| ECR images | mgmt account | ✅ Immutable tags, Cosign signatures present |
| DNS + TLS | Route53 + ACM | ✅ www.matthewoladipupo.dev → healthy |
All data captured live on 2026-03-08 from the running AWS infrastructure.
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