GitOps on the Edge: Maintaining Infrastructure of Sovereign Clients

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Customer implements GitOps on-prem for 280 potential edge sites with sovereign clients and banned public cloud, replacing zip scripts with a git repo, package repo and ansible-pull agents. 34 office locations reach basic deployment in about three quarters of a year; systemd services later migrate to Docker containers. Secrets use Mozilla SOPS, metrics use Prometheus remote write with Grafana, and a self-hosted CDN handles poor bandwidth — solution is working but still rolling out.

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1. 0:00Introduction to GitOps on Edge
2. 1:30Why GitOps for distributed setups
3. 4:19About my employer Iteratec
4. 7:12Problem: Non-functional requirements
5. 12:13Six challenges of sovereign clients
6. 20:21Solving the infrastructure puzzle
7. 24:56GitOps with Ansible Pull
8. 27:27Architecture and security
9. 28:52Results and next steps
10. 31:39Q&A session