v0.6.0 — Live Readiness & Evidence

Engineering intent

Harden the reference for real non-production activation without crossing the cloud-cost boundary prematurely. Phase 6 removes assumptions that static CI cannot prove and makes runtime evidence explicit.

Architecture delta

• EKS example baseline moved from Kubernetes 1.31 extended support to 1.36 standard support
• EKS upgrade policy explicitly set to STANDARD
• monitoring-scoped resources separated from platform-demo Argo application paths
• dedicated monitoring Argo Applications for Alertmanager/OpenCost Prometheus resources
• read-only live-activation preflight with account/region and cost-boundary checks
• dry-run-by-default Argo CD bootstrap pinned to chart 10.9.2 and private ClusterIP
• live activation runbook covering bootstrap, private API access, runtime validation and teardown
• engineering evidence ledger with real public GitHub Actions screenshots
• CONTRIBUTING guide plus bug/design/live-validation issue forms
• dedicated Live Readiness CI for namespace boundaries, helper tooling and EKS baseline

Reproducible evidence

• Engineering Evidence
• Live Activation Runbook
• Live Readiness CI
• Terraform CI
• Kubernetes CI
• Policy and Runtime Security CI
• Reliability CI
• Cost & Operations CI

Evidence boundary

This is a live-readiness release, not a claim that AWS/EKS is already running. The AWS plan/apply path remains inactive until an approved AWS account is authenticated and a reviewed dev plan is applied. Live Argo reconciliation, alert delivery, Velero restore, OpenCost allocations and VPA recommendations remain future runtime evidence.