GitOps topic

GitOps is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to infrastructure automation. GitOps uses Git repositories as a single source of truth to deliver infrastructure as code.

GitOps delivers:

  • A standard workflow for application development
  • Increased security for setting application requirements upfront
  • Improved reliability with visibility and version control through Git
  • Consistency across any cluster, any cloud, and any on-premise environment

Key components of a GitOps workflow

There are four key components to a GitOps workflow, a Git repository, a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline, an application deployment tool, and a monitoring system.

  • The Git repository is the source of truth for the application configuration and code.
  • The CD pipeline is responsible for building, testing, and deploying the application.
  • The deployment tool is used to manage the application resources in the target environment.
  • The monitoring system tracks the application performance and provides feedback to the development team.

List GitOps repositories

vault-secrets-operator

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Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.

argocd-vault-plugin

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An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets

faas

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OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple

flux

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Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2

sealed-secrets

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A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

gaia

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Build powerful pipelines in any programming language.

flagger

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Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments)

flux2

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Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit.

werf

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A solution for implementing efficient and consistent software delivery to Kubernetes facilitating best practices.

podinfo

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Go microservice template for Kubernetes