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The Business Benefits
of GitOps
Cornelia Davis
Products, Amazon
@cdavisafc, cdavisaf@amazon.com

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Me?
Developer (wasn’t Ops)
Web architectures for ~20 years
Cloud-native for nearly a decade
Cloud Foundry for 8+ years
K8s for more than 5
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GitOps
brings
efficiency
here

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What is GitOps?
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GitOps Takes Cloud-native
to Operations
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Store code/config
Desired State
Automation
Runtime Environment
Actual State
Convergent
Interface to operations
* Kubernetes is just
one example of a
runtime
environment.

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But really...
what are you trying to do?

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Get better at doing software
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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-2019-accelerate-state-of-devops-elite-performance-productivity-and-scaling

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● Enable application (DevOps) teams to
release more frequently, reduce lead time &
operate cloud native applications more
effectively
● While Platform teams maintain
security, compliance, resilience & cost
management

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-2019-accelerate-state-of-devops-elite-performance-productivity-and-scaling

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● Enable application (DevOps) teams to
release more frequently, reduce lead time &
operate cloud native applications more
effectively
Familiar Tooling

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😃

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● Enable application (DevOps) teams to
release more frequently, reduce lead time &
operate cloud native applications more
effectively
Familiar Tooling
Self Service

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Self Service Ops
(not self-service infra)

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● Enable application (DevOps) teams to
release more frequently, reduce lead time &
operate cloud native applications more
effectively
● While Platform teams maintain
security, compliance, resilience & cost
management
Security & Compliance
Familiar Tooling
Self Service

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CI
developer &
devops eng
application
configuration
source
code CD
Dev
Stage
Prod
Meh...

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CI
developer &
devops eng
application
configuration
source
code
CD
Dev
Stage
Prod
CD
CD
PULL!!!

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● Enable application (DevOps) teams to
release more frequently, reduce lead time &
operate cloud native applications more
effectively
● While Platform teams maintain
security, compliance, resilience & cost
management
Security & Compliance
Resilience
Familiar Tooling
Self Service

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-2019-accelerate-state-of-devops-elite-performance-productivity-and-scaling

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-2019-accelerate-state-of-devops-elite-performance-productivity-and-scaling

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Git Semantics
versioned
each version is a complete
representation
Dependency: immutability

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application
configuration
Drift detection and remediation
kubectl apply
PULL!!!

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-2019-accelerate-state-of-devops-elite-performance-productivity-and-scaling

27. @cdavisafc
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CI
developer &
devops eng
application
configuration
source
code

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● Familiar Tools - git
● Self Service
● Pull
● Versioned, immutable store
● Complete representation
● Drift detection and remediation
● Config reviews in Git
● Progressive Delivery
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GitOps
=
Continuous Delivery
+
Continuous Operations

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Thank you!
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