1 Why GitOps?

This chapter covers

  • What is GitOps?
  • Why GitOps is important
  • GitOps compared with other approaches
  • Benefits of GitOps

Kubernetes is a massively popular open source platform that orchestrates and automates operations. Although it improves the management and scaling of infrastructure and applications, Kubernetes frequently has challenges managing the complexity of releasing applications.

Git is the most widely used version-control system in the software industry today. GitOps is a set of procedures that uses the power of Git to provide both revision and change control within the Kubernetes platform. A GitOps strategy can play a big part in how quickly and easily teams manage their services’ environment creation, promotion, and ...

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