Tales from the Branches: GitOps in the Real World
summary
Companies describe concrete wins and pain points: 2600+ clusters at Starbucks and a cluster per store model at Chick‑fil‑A force decentralized Git-driven rollout with careful gating; BlackRock reports scaling from five to 150 clusters and 1,000+ apps with fast rollbacks. Tools actually used include Flux (multi‑tenancy), Argo CD (Autopilot), Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Datadog/New Relic; problems tackled are training gaps, artifact bandwidth at the edge, and bulk config management via generated repos and enforceable patterns that mostly work.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introductions
- 3:20What surprised you about GitOps
- 5:00Was there some surprises at State Farm
- 8:35Edge GitOps
- 11:25Artifacts
- 14:40QA
- 20:55Visibility
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