GitOps - Using Git as your source of truth for build, deploy and observability
summary
Argues that using Git as the single source of truth plus Kubernetes operators and a deployment reconciler (Weave Flux) turns CI into true CD, doubling a team’s productivity and moving them from one or two weekly deployments to >30/day for ~20 developers. Shows concrete tooling: Kubernetes, Prometheus, sealed-secrets, Jenkins/CircleCI, GitHub and a deployment operator that records state, and cites a 45‑minute full recovery after a destructive command.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 5:38Introducing GitOps
- 9:00Build on a decade of DevOps best practices
- 9:42Add declarative infrastructure
- 19:06Three pillars of GitOps
- 24:19Service deployments are controlled using operator pattern
- 27:43Bitnami: Encrypt Kubernetes Secrets
- 38:10GitOps Service Lifecycle
- 40:41The 3 core principles of GitOps
- 42:53Any Questions?
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