GitOps for the people

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200-engineer fintech with siloed QA, divergent dev/stage/prod stacks, and an approvals bottleneck moves to Kubernetes/OpenShift plus mandatory automated tests, Jenkins pipelines that copy manifests into a config repo, and Argo CD doing the sync. Release branches go away; delivery ties to Jira issues in a new Release Ops flow where Ops approves a PR to the prod config repo and ArgoCD deploys automatically. Result: fewer production surprises, embedded testers, revert-commit rollback lane with human sign-off.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 2:17Company discovery and challenges
3. 7:12Initial GitOps proposal
4. 10:42Original delivery pipeline
5. 13:10Automating the release manager role
6. 17:07Production deployment with approvals
7. 19:13Identifying remaining bottlenecks
8. 21:20Introducing ReleaseOps concept
9. 24:07Final GitOps architecture
10. 26:36Internal developer platforms
11. 27:19Demo of Loft platform
12. 28:44Q&A session

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