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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Apr 6, 2022

A Practitioners Guide to GitOps - Introduction, Principles and Implementation

Thomas Schütz

Still relying on manual CLI commands to manage infrastructure? Learn to eliminate configuration drift and automate pull-based deployments using declarative GitOps principles and Keptn.

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#1 about 4 min

Understanding the drawbacks of imperative infrastructure commands

Manual scripting and imperative commands lead to fragile, outdated, and complex delivery processes.

#2 about 3 min

Simplifying infrastructure state with declarative configuration models

How declaring a target state separates deployment intention from infrastructure execution details.

#3 about 3 min

Security and stability risks of manual declarative configurations

Executing configurations from local machines causes state drift and lacks automated testing workflows.

#4 about 7 min

Core principles and prerequisites of robust GitOps workflows

Establishing Git as the single source of truth for immutable, automatically-reconciled infrastructure states.

#5 about 7 min

Architecting continuous reconciliation loops with Kubernetes controllers

How automated operators continuously compare and reconcile declared target states against the underlying system.

#6 about 3 min

Managing application lifecycles with the Keptn control plane

Using Keptn as a distributed control plane enables continuous delivery, testing, and automated remediation.

#7 about 4 min

Implementing declarative GitOps workflows using Keptn custom resources

Updating manual pipelines to utilize declarative custom resource definitions and Kubernetes operators.

#8 about 6 min

Demonstrating automated deployment sequences via Git repositories

Deploying and testing application changes by syncing custom resources with continuous delivery pipelines.

#9 about 13 min

Comparing Keptn orchestration capabilities against alternative software operators

Comparing GitOps orchestration models against other continuous delivery operators and observability platforms.

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