I Built a Tool That Builds My Infrastructure — Here's How It Went A brutally honest account of building SwiftDeploy for the HNG14 Stage 4A DevOps challenge When I first read the Stage 4A task brief, one line jumped out at me: "Most DevOps tasks ask you to configure infrastructure manually — this one asks you to build the tool that does it for you." That single sentence changed how I approached the entire challenge. This wasn't about setting up servers or writing config files by hand. It was about building something that does all of that for you, from a single source of truth. This is the story of how I built SwiftDeploy — and every wall I hit along the way. What Is SwiftDeploy? SwiftDeploy is a declarative deployment CLI tool. You describe your entire infrastructure in a single manifest.yaml file, and the tool generates your Nginx config, Docker Compose file, manages your container lifecycle, and keeps your stack healthy.…