The document outlines a presentation on GitOps methodologies and tools by Weaveworks, highlighting their open-source projects like Flux and Flagger. It emphasizes the benefits of adopting GitOps in application development and operations, as well as upcoming events and educational initiatives. Key presenters, including Mae Large and Russ Parmer, discuss the need for change, lessons learned, and how to effectively implement GitOps practices.

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March 30, 2022
From Zero to
GitOps Heroes!
Mae Large Staff Field Engineer
Russ Parmer Senior Technology Engineer
Priyanka Ravi Developer Experience Engineer
Stacey Potter, Community Manager,

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Weaveworks is founded on open source
● Flux & Flagger (CNCF): GitOps and Progressive Delivery for k8s
● Cortex (CNCF): Distributed, Long-term-storage TSDB compatible with
Prometheus
● Weave Ignite: VMs with container UX & built-in GitOps management
● EKSctl: Create an Amazon EKS cluster with one command
● (and many many more projects!)
And now … Weave GitOps!
weave.works

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Speakers Help/Support
Mae Large
Staff Field Engineer
Russ Parmer
Senior Technology
Engineer
Priyanka Ravi
DX Engineer
Weaveworks
Stacey Potter
Community Manager
Weaveworks
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attendees”
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If the issue is not easily resolved,
we ask that you follow along as
we demo the sample app.
From Zero to GitOps Heroes! Duration
30-60 Minutes

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● GitOps is an app dev and operations methodology
● GitOps is a methodology, not a specific tool or
technology.
● GitOps applies to everything
and brings business value.
What is GitOps?...and why do I want it?

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Source: GitOps Working Group
https://opengitops.dev/

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👋 Get Connected 💬 🤝
● ⭐ Give Flux a star on GitHub ⭐
● Check out the Flux docs at: fluxcd.io/docs/get-started/
● GitHub Discussions Q&A:
https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/discussions/categories/q-a
● CNCF Slack #Flux channel (or get a slack invite)

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Mar 31: GitOps for Helm Users!
Apr 7: GitOps with Flux on AKS
Apr 27: Reconcile Terraform Resources the GitOps Way!
May 16-20: Visit the Flux Booth at KubeCon!
June 8-9: GitOps Days 2022! (gitopsdays.com)
Upcoming Events

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Talk time! 🎤

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Introductions
Mae Large
Staff Field
Engineer
Russ Parmer
Sr. Technology
Engineer
Priyanka Ravi
Dev. Experience
Engineer

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● The GitOps spark 🧨
● Need for change and benefits of GitOps 🚀
● Internal pushback 󰚁 󰤈 🧐 | 󰬾 󰭂 󰭉
● Dedicated team 🙌 󰢦󰚐󰢧
Setting the Stage

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POCs
● Ensure requirements are met
○ Multi-cloud
○ Compliance
○ Security/Risk
○ Change Management
● Convincing and demonstrating the value
● Filling in the gaps
○ API
○ CLI
○ Config Repo Setup

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Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes
● Collaborating with the Kubernetes platform team
● Adopting a declarative pattern and utilizing Flux
○ Migrating from API driven flow to utilizing Flux to manage tenants
● Migration to Flux2
○ Workshop with Weaveworks team

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Education / Evangelizing
● Why is it critical to success?
● Onboarding
● Internal Roadshows
● Evangelizing

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Operations
● Metrics/Observability: Prometheus & Grafana
○ Surfacing the value that our customers get out of GitOps
○ Deployment events
○ Change lead time
○ Change size
● Governance
○ Instant Notifications
● Hardening
○ Credential management
○ Embrace policy as code

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Lessons Learned/Advice
● Community involvement
● Be patient, it takes time
● Dedicated Team
● Standardize/Establish best practices
● Outages happen
○ Flux git deploy secrets

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How to get in touch with us
Mae Large
Twitter: @MayLarge
LinkedIn
Russ Parmer
LinkedIn
Priyanka Ravi
Twitter: @PinkyyRavi
LinkedIn

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Questions?