Infrastructure as Software with GitOps
Talkat GitOpsCon Europe 2022 · on Tuesday, 2022-05-17· at 16:05· Pavilion 3 | Room E | Level 2 | Central Forum·
summary
Argues that GitOps is an implementation of Infrastructure as Software: running control loops (not one-off scripts) that continuously reconcile desired state with actual state using Kubernetes controllers, comparing that to CLI Terraform and showing problems with push-only IaC. Recommends storing an immutable, versioned desired state in Git and using Flux and Argo to pull-based desired state for scale and smaller blast radii, detect drift via continual reconciliation, and prefer roll‑forward reverts.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:30AWS Snowballs
- 8:00Infrastructure as Code
- 15:00PullState
- 17:50Continuous Reconciliation
- 21:00TwoWay Sync
- 24:05QA
- 24:55Declarative
- 25:29Immutable
- 30:59Revert
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