GitOps

GitOps (/ɡɪtɔːps/) is a software development paradigm and a set of practices to automate the configurations and deployment of infrastructure and applications using Git as a single source of truth.

In general, GitOps automates Devops best practices, using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code to ensure a consistent, agile, scalable and independent deployment process, managed by version control , but it is often refernced as the way of implementing Continuous Deployment for cloud native applications being the most common application for GitOps.

History

The birth of GitOps is referenced to Alexis Richardson, CEO of Weaveworks in 2017.

The company managed their Kubernetes on AWS configuration as code in git repositories and therefore were able to propagate clusters, applications, configurations, monitoring etc automatically into production.

During 2019, gitops was adopted in various solutions provided by main cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure And Google cloud platform., while various CI/CD tools had been taking the GitOps approach such as the flagger delivery from the FluxCd project and

https://opengitops.dev/

https://www.weave.works/blog/the-history-of-gitops

References

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