Why GitOps is not Git plus Automation for Ops with Roberth Strand
MAR 25, 202455 MIN
Why GitOps is not Git plus Automation for Ops with Roberth Strand
MAR 25, 202455 MIN
Description
Whether its GitOps, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Observability as a Service or other terms. We all have our definitions, but rarely do we have a consensus on what those terms really mean! To get some clarity we invited <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberthstrand/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Roberth Strand</a>, CNCF Ambassador and Azure MVP, who has been passionately advocating for GitOps as it was initially defined and explained by Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks in his blog <a href="https://medium.com/weaveworks/what-is-gitops-really-e77329f23416" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What is GitOps Really</a>! <br />Tune in and learn about Desired State Management, Continuous Pull vs Pushing from Pipelines, how Progressive Delivery or Auto-Scaling fits into declaring everything in Git, what OpenGItOps is and why this podcast will help you get your GitOps certification (coming soon)<br />As we had a lot to talk we also touched on Platform Engineering and various other topics<br /><br />Here are all the links we discussed:<br />Alexis GitOps Blog Post: <a href="https://medium.com/weaveworks/what-is-gitops-really-e77329f23416" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://medium.com/weaveworks/what-is-gitops-really-e77329f23416</a><br />OpenGitOps: <a href="https://opengitops.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://opengitops.dev/</a><br />Flux Image Reflector: <a href="https://fluxcd.io/flux/components/image/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://fluxcd.io/flux/components/image/</a><br />CNCF White Paper on Platform Engineering: <a href="https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/</a><br />Platform Engineering Maturity Model: <a href="https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platform-eng-maturity-model/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platform-eng-maturity-model/</a><br />Platform Engineering Working Group as part of TAG App Delivery: <a href="https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/platforms/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/platforms/</a><br />
