Getting Started with GitOps: A Practical Guide
What is GitOps? GitOps is a modern approach to continuous deployment that uses Git as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications. Coined by Weaveworks in 2017, GitOps extends the principles of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to the entire deployment lifecycle. Core Principles Declarative Configuration - The entire system is described declaratively Version Controlled - The desired state is stored in Git Automated Delivery - Approved changes are automatically applied Continuous Reconciliation - Agents ensure actual state matches desired state Why GitOps? Traditional deployment approaches often suffer from several challenges: ...