GitOps is an approach to managing infrastructure that uses Git as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure definitions and configurations. It combines DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes manifests. GitOps works by having the infrastructure pull configuration changes from Git repositories, keeping live systems in sync with Git. Popular GitOps tools include Argo CD, Flux and Weaveworks. While GitOps provides benefits like easy version tracking and security, it can result in too many repositories to manage and secrets become harder to handle as the number of repos grows.

1. Intro to GitOps & Tools
By Shivlal Sharma

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Shivlal Sharma
DevOps Engineer @Quicko
● Community Builder @PYPRO
● Co-organiser @Docker Ahmedabad, @CNCF
Ahmedabad
● Write blogs @CommBlogs
@whoami

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GitOps a new fish?

4. It was in the lake..!
● You were using it before it came to trending.
● DevOps practices + IaaC(Infra as a code) = GitOps
● DevOps Practices like Continuous building and Continuous
deploying.
● IaaC tasks like
○ Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
○ Ansible playbooks for defining configurations
○ Kubectl for container orchestration using mainfest
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5. DevOps Practices
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6. Lemme give you one task..
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Create one instance and setup Apache on it.. Simple

7. IaaC(Infrastructure as Code)
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8. IaaC automation
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9. How GitOps works?
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● Two kind of deployment strategy : Push and Pull based
● Push: When someone push changes to the repo, it invokes the pipeline and pushes the
changes to the Infrastructure
● Pull: We instruct the infrastructure to actively look up for the changes made to the repo, after
it find out changes made to the repo it pulls the changes and apply it internally.

10. How GitOps work?
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11. GitOps tools
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12. How these tools works?
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13. Advantages:
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● Follows “Git is the single source of truth, when it comes to infrastructure point of view”.
● Easily track changes in the infrastructure, due to versioning.
● More secure due to role based access
● Not much complex

14. Disadvantages:
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● A proliferation of repositories
● No help for secrets management, as number of repositories grows it is hard to manage
secrets.

15. Any Questions?
Mat pucho yarr 😔
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Connect with me.

17. Thank you