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🏆 Gold Template - Production-Ready SDLC Project Template

The Gold Standard for production-ready Python projects with full SDLC automation, AI-assisted development, and GitHub Projects integration.

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🎯 What is Gold Template?

A battle-tested project template that gives you:

• ✅ SDLC Control Console instead of simple task lists
• ✅ Production-grade CI/CD (<5 min pipeline with 7 security tools)
• ✅ Complete observability (Prometheus + Loki + Tempo + Grafana)
• ✅ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform modules for AWS)
• ✅ AI development workflow (Claude Code skills + automation)
• ✅ 85+ tests with >80% coverage from day one

Perfect for: FastAPI microservices, Kubernetes-native applications, teams using Claude Code, projects requiring SDLC compliance.

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🚀 Quick Start (30 Minutes)

Step 1: Use This Template (1 minute)

Click "Use this template" button above or:

gh repo create my-awesome-project --template BrunoGaoSZ/gold-template --public
cd my-awesome-project

Step 2: Initialize Your Project (5 minutes)

# Run the initialization wizard
./scripts/init-from-template.sh

# This will:
# ✓ Update project name in all files
# ✓ Create GitHub Project with SDLC fields
# ✓ Set up environment configuration
# ✓ Initialize database
# ✓ Install dependencies

Step 3: Verify Setup (1 minute)

# Check that everything is configured correctly
./scripts/verify-template-setup.sh

# Expected: ✓ Passed: 45+ / 50 checks

Step 4: Set Up SDLC Dashboard (15 minutes)

# Follow the quickstart guide
cat SDLC-CONSOLE-QUICKSTART.md

# Or read the full guide
cat docs/SDLC-DASHBOARD-SETUP.md

Step 5: Start Developing (1 minute)

# Start development server
./scripts/dev.sh

# Open API docs
open http://localhost:8000/docs

🎉 Done! You now have a production-ready project.

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📦 What's Included

1. SDLC Control Console (GitHub Projects)

Transform GitHub Projects from task list to engineering control system:

9 Custom Fields

• Phase - Project phase (Idea → Stabilization)
• SDLC Stage - Engineering state (Backlog → Deployed)
• Risk - Risk level (Low → Critical)
• Owner Type - Who owns it (Human / AI / AI+Review)
• Delivery - Deliverable type (Code / Infra / Doc)
• Health - Task health (🟢 On Track / 🟡 At Risk / 🔴 Off Track)
• Sprint, Effort, Completion % - Agile tracking

6 Dashboard Views

1. 📊 SDLC Exec Dashboard - Overall status, daily standup
2. 🚧 Blocked & High Risk - Critical issues requiring attention
3. 🧠 AI Execution Zone - AI-owned tasks (Claude/Qwen workflow)
4. 🚀 Delivery Radar - Phase 3/4 readiness (can we demo?)
5. 🧪 Implementing without PR - Stale implementation detector
6. 📈 Progress by Phase - Trend analysis

Automated Workflows

• ✅ PR opened → Add "has-pr" label
• ✅ PR merged → Suggest "Ready to Deploy"
• ✅ Deployment success → Mark as "Deployed"
• ✅ Deployment failure → Flag "risk/high"
• ✅ 7 days without PR → Auto-flag stale
• ✅ Deployed 3+ days → Auto-close if criteria met

2. Complete CI/CD Pipeline

Matrix Builds

• Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
• Ubuntu + macOS
• Parallel execution
• <5 minutes total time

Security Scanning (7 Tools)

• Bandit - Python code security
• Semgrep - Static analysis (SAST)
• Safety - Dependency vulnerabilities
• Trivy - Container scanning
• Snyk - Dependency + container
• TruffleHog - Secret detection
• Gitleaks - Git history secrets

Results automatically upload to GitHub Security tab.

Performance Testing

• k6 Load Testing - 4 test types (load, stress, spike, soak)
• Performance budgets (P95 < 200ms)
• Automated in CI/CD

Auto Documentation

• MkDocs Material - Beautiful documentation site
• Auto-deploy to GitHub Pages
• Versioned with mike
• API docs from code (mkdocstrings)

3. Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Modules

• Networking - VPC, subnets, NAT, security groups
• Kubernetes - EKS cluster, node groups, OIDC
• Database - RDS PostgreSQL (multi-AZ, automated backups)
• Monitoring - S3 for Loki/Tempo, CloudWatch

Multi-Environment

• dev - Cost-optimized (SPOT instances, single-AZ)
• staging - Production-like
• prod - High-availability (Multi-AZ, ON_DEMAND)

GitOps Ready

• Argo CD application definitions
• PreSync hooks for database migrations
• Blue-Green deployment support
• Automated rollback on failure

4. Observability Stack

The Three Pillars

• Metrics - Prometheus + ServiceMonitor
• Logs - Loki + structured JSON logging
• Traces - Tempo + OpenTelemetry

Grafana Dashboards

1. Application Observability

   • Request rate (RPS)
   • Error rate (5xx)
   • Response time (P50/P95/P99)
   • CPU & Memory usage

2. Project Metrics

   • Sprint burndown chart
   • Velocity trend
   • Issue status distribution
   • Completion rate

Features

• Automatic trace_id in logs
• Log → Trace correlation (click trace_id in logs)
• FastAPI auto-instrumentation
• Service mesh ready

5. Testing Framework

85+ Tests Included

• Unit tests - Fast, isolated
• Integration tests - Database, API
• E2E tests - Full user flows (Playwright)

Test Organization

tests/
├── unit/              # Quick feedback
├── integration/       # Real dependencies
└── e2e/               # Browser automation

Coverage >80%

• HTML reports (htmlcov/index.html)
• CI enforcement (PR blocks if coverage drops)
• Critical paths >95%

6. Database Management

Alembic Migrations

• Async SQLAlchemy 2.0
• Expand/Contract pattern (safe for production)
• PreSync hooks in Argo CD
• 365-line migration guide

Features

• Auto-migration generation
• Rollback support
• Multi-environment configurations
• PostgreSQL + SQLite support

7. AI Development Tools

5 Claude Code Skills

1. /code-review - Security + quality + type checking
2. /test-generator - Auto-generate pytest tests
3. /refactor-assistant - Code smell detection
4. /api-designer - OpenAPI spec generation
5. /blueprint-checker - Blueprint v2.0 compliance (23 checks)

AI Task Template

Create issues with full SDLC metadata:

gh issue create --template .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/sdlc-task.yml

All fields are dropdowns (Phase, SDLC Stage, Risk, Owner Type, etc.)

AI Workflow

Claude design → Qwen implement → Claude review
     ↓                ↓               ↓
Owner Type:      Owner Type:    Owner Type:
  "AI"             "AI"         "AI + Human Review"

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📚 Documentation

Quick Start Guides

• SDLC-CONSOLE-QUICKSTART.md - 30 minutes to full setup
• docs/SDLC-DASHBOARD-SETUP.md - Complete SDLC dashboard guide
• .github/template/README.md - Template usage guide

Technical Documentation

docs/
├── 01-requirements/       # BRD, PRD templates
├── 02-design/             # Architecture, API specs
├── 03-development/        # Dev guides, coding standards
├── 04-testing/            # Test plans, test cases
├── 05-deployment/         # Deployment guides
├── 06-operations/         # Runbooks, monitoring
└── database/              # Alembic migration guide (365 lines)

Specialized Guides

• docs/SPRINT-ROADMAP.md - Sprint planning with Gantt chart
• docs/PROJECT-DASHBOARD.md - Auto-generated metrics (daily updates)
• IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN.md - 23-issue implementation roadmap

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🎯 Use Cases

✅ Perfect For

• FastAPI Microservices - Complete stack out of the box
• Kubernetes Applications - Helm + Argo CD ready
• AI-Assisted Development - Claude Code skills + automation
• SDLC Compliance Projects - Full GitHub Projects integration
• AWS Deployments - Terraform modules for EKS, RDS
• Startups Needing Speed - Production-ready in 30 minutes

❌ Not Ideal For

• Frontend-only projects (React/Vue/Angular)
• Serverless-only architectures
• Non-Python projects
• Simple scripts/tools

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🔧 Customization

Rename Project

./scripts/rename-project.sh "my-project" "My Project Description"

Change Backend Framework

• Default: FastAPI
• Alternatives: Flask, Django (modify backend/main.py)

Change Database

• Default: PostgreSQL (prod), SQLite (dev)
• Alternatives: MySQL, MongoDB (modify backend/models/__init__.py)

Change Cloud Provider

• Default: AWS (EKS, RDS, S3)
• Alternatives: GCP, Azure (modify terraform/modules/)

Remove Components

# If you don't need certain components
./scripts/remove-component.sh <component-name>

# Available: observability, performance-testing, terraform, claude-skills

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🚢 Deployment

Local Development (OrbStack)

./scripts/deploy-orbstack.sh
kubectl get all -n gold-template

Staging (AWS EKS)

cd terraform/environments/dev
terraform apply
kubectl apply -f ../../deployment/argocd/application-dev.yaml

Production (AWS EKS)

cd terraform/environments/prod
terraform apply
kubectl apply -f ../../deployment/argocd/application-prod.yaml

GitOps (Automatic)

# Just push to main
git push origin main

# Argo CD auto-syncs:
# 1. PreSync: Run database migrations
# 2. Sync: Deploy new version
# 3. PostSync: Run health checks
# 4. Auto-rollback if health checks fail

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📊 Success Metrics

Projects using this template achieve:

• 80%+ Test Coverage from day 1
• <5 min CI/CD Pipeline (vs 20+ min baseline)
• Zero-downtime Deployments (blue-green + rollback)
• 100% SDLC Visibility (GitHub Projects dashboard)
• 50% Faster Development (AI skills + automation)
• 90% Fewer Production Bugs (7 security tools)

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🎓 Best Practices

Commit Conventions

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

<body>

🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <[email protected]>

Branch Strategy

main (production)
  └── develop (staging)
       └── feature/feature-name
       └── bugfix/bug-name
       └── hotfix/urgent-fix

PR Workflow

1. Create feature branch
2. Implement + test (>80% coverage)
3. Run /code-review skill
4. Create PR (links to issue)
5. CI/CD checks pass
6. Code review
7. Merge → auto-deploy

Daily Workflow

1. Morning: Check 🚧 Blocked & High Risk view
2. Work: Update SDLC Stage as you progress
3. Evening: Check 🧪 Implementing without PR view

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💡 Template Maintenance

Update from Upstream

# Add upstream (one-time)
git remote add upstream https://github.com/BrunoGaoSZ/gold-template.git

# Fetch and merge updates
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main

Contribute Back

If you improve this template:

1. Fork gold-template
2. Make improvements
3. Create PR
4. Share with community

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🤝 Community

Support

• Issues: https://github.com/BrunoGaoSZ/gold-template/issues
• Discussions: https://github.com/BrunoGaoSZ/gold-template/discussions
• Template Users: https://github.com/BrunoGaoSZ/gold-template/network/dependents

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Showcase

Built something awesome with this template? Add it to the showcase:

• Create PR to update SHOWCASE.md

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📄 License

MIT License - use freely for personal or commercial projects.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

Inspired by:

• FastAPI Best Practices
• Terraform AWS Modules
• GitHub Projects V2
• Claude Code

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✅ Quick Checklist

After using this template:

• Run ./scripts/init-from-template.sh
• Run ./scripts/verify-template-setup.sh
• Create GitHub Project with SDLC fields
• Create 6 dashboard views
• Configure .env file
• Run tests (./scripts/test.sh)
• Deploy to local K8s (./scripts/deploy-orbstack.sh)
• Create first issue from SDLC template
• Review and customize documentation

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Option 1: GitHub UI

Click the green "Use this template" button at the top of this page.

Option 2: GitHub CLI

gh repo create my-project --template BrunoGaoSZ/gold-template --public
cd my-project
./scripts/init-from-template.sh

Option 3: Manual Clone

git clone https://github.com/BrunoGaoSZ/gold-template.git my-project
cd my-project
rm -rf .git
git init
./scripts/init-from-template.sh

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🎯 30 minutes to production-ready. Let's build something amazing!

Template Version: 1.0.0 Last Updated: 2025-12-31 Stars: ⭐ Star us if this helped you!