🚀 Building a Cloud-Native Microservices Voting System on AWS using Kubernetes (Kind) & Argo CD

👨‍💻 Author: Yash Sonawane 🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/yashsonawane25/k8s-microservices-vote-system 📍 Pune, India 📌 Introduction Modern applications are built using microservices and deployed using container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. To gain deep hands-on experience with production-style DevOps workflows, I built and deployed a cloud-native voting system on an AWS EC2 instance using: Kubernetes (Kind) Docker Argo CD Prometheus Grafana Redis PostgreSQL Instead of using managed Kubernetes services like EKS, I manually configured the cluster using Kind to understand Kubernetes internals, networking, service exposure, and Git-driven deployments. This article explains the architecture, implementation, monitoring setup, and key learnings from this project. 🏗 System Architecture 🔎 Architecture Overview The application follows a distributed microservices model: 🧩 Components Python Frontend – Allows users to vote between two options Redis – Temporarily stores incoming