IGNITE: Alexandre Gervais - DevOpsDay MTL 2019

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Advocates using Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure, with CI pipelines committing manifests to the repository and an operator that continuously syncs and enforces that declared state so humans stop applying changes directly. Recommends PR-based workflows, automated checks (linting and policy/compliance gates), keeping privileged manual keys only for rare recovery, and storing secrets encrypted with collaborators' public keys; warns that manual apply steps and ad hoc plans break auditability and rollback.

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