Welcome to GitOps
15 years ago, Git changed the way software teams collaborate and develop software. For new declarative software systems such as Kubernetes, Git can play a key role in deploying, configuring, updating and managing infrastructure as code.
GitOps relies on Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications. With Git at the center of delivery pipelines, developers can make pull requests to accelerate and simplify application deployments and operations tasks to Kubernetes.
An operating model for cloud native
GitOps can be summarized as these two things:
- An operating model for Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies, providing a set of best practices that unify deployment, management and monitoring for containerized clusters and applications.
- A path towards a developer experience for managing applications; where end-to-end CICD pipelines and git workflows are applied to both operations, and development.
For further reading we recommend:
- A guide to GitOps
- FAQs on GitOps
- Blog Series:
Weaveworks is the EKS certified Advanced partner that built eksctl. Founded in 2014, Weaveworks makes it fast and simple for developers and DevOps teams to build and operate powerful containerized applications. Weaveworks minimizes the complexity of operating workloads in Kubernetes by providing automated continuous delivery pipelines, observability and monitoring. One of the first members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Weaveworks also contributes to several open source projects, including Weave Scope, Weave Cortex and Weave Flux.