GitOps Demystified: Principles, Practices, and Challenges
GitOps, a term coined by Alexis Richardson (CEO of Weaveworks) in 2017, represents a modern approach to continuous deployment and infrastructure management that leverages Git as its core technological foundation. At its essence, GitOps extends the familiar Git workflow patterns from application development to infrastructure management, establishing Git repositories as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications.
In this blog post we want to summarize GitOps’ principles, describe best and bad practices and reflect on challenges, implementing GitOps can bring along.