Ship It Faster, Safer & Cheaper GitOps with Helm

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Shows a practical GitOps pipeline that uses Helm + Helmfile to generate static YAML, commits the generated manifests to a config repo, and triggers deployments with Brigade-based CI and a repo-watcher called Frogs. Claims: fewer third‑party credentials, lower infra cost by using Kubernetes primitives and spot/preemptible nodes, faster deploys and safer rollbacks. Demonstrates a working demo on GitHub and describes how CI runs helmfile build, commits diffs, and then reconciles clusters via the generated custom resources.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:33Vocabulary
3. 2:07Problems We're Solving
4. 2:40Challenges
5. 3:16Implementation Ideas
6. 4:44Continuous Deployment - Reconcilation Loop
7. 5:21Reconciation Options (Static)
8. 6:35Reconcitation Options (Dynamic)
9. 8:16Common Problems for CCD
10. 9:48Solution Overview
11. 12:58brigade.js basics
12. 13:49Brigade CD
13. 14:46Declarative Helm Releases
14. 15:36Helmfile Environment & Template for DRY
15. 21:07Further Readings
16. 24:50GitOps with Helmfile on Brigade

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