GitOps | GitOps is Continuous Deployment for cloud native applications

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2021-06-16 21:30:09

Since its inception in 2017 by Weaveworks, GitOps has caused quite some fuss on Twitter and KubeCon. This site aggregates the essence of GitOps to help clear up the confusion about the topic.

GitOps is a way of implementing Continuous Deployment for cloud native applications. It focuses on a developer-centric experience when operating infrastructure, by using tools developers are already familiar with, including Git and Continuous Deployment tools.

The core idea of GitOps is having a Git repository that always contains declarative descriptions of the infrastructure currently desired in the production environment and an automated process to make the production environment match the described state in the repository. If you want to deploy a new application or update an existing one, you only need to update the repository - the automated process handles everything else. It’s like having cruise control for managing your applications in production.

Okay, to be fair, probably every Continuous Deployment technology promises to make deploying faster and allows you to deploy more often. What is unique about GitOps is that you don’t have to switch tools for deploying your application. Everything happens in the version control system you use for developing the application anyways.