Understanding GitOps

GitOps is a new method of Continuous Deployment that uses Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications, providing both revision and change control. With GitOps, a system is operated by the submission of pull requests (and subsequent merges) to the desired state of the system represented in a Git repository.

Benifits

• Infrastructure as Code (Reproducible deployment)
• Code Reviews (Four-eyes principle)
• Declarative (Create a VM vs I have a VM)
• Observability
• Auditability & Compliance (Who changed what, when)
• Disaster Recovery
• One Click Rollback
• Reduce Inconsistency between Environments
• Better Knowledge Transfer