GitOps tools like Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux excel at declarative deployments but cannot express the full orchestration sequence needed to bring a platform to life: install, verify, wire, and test. The post introduces the concept of a 'stack recipe' — a structured, executable workflow that treats integration as a first-class artifact. Using Argo Workflows as the engine, it demonstrates a concrete example: deploying PostgreSQL and Redis in parallel, bootstrapping both, deploying a CQRS sync daemon between them, and validating the full data path with a smoke test. The recipe runs as a DAG, is observable via the Argo UI, and is fully reproducible across environments.
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