Introduction to GitOps with Kubernetes

GitOps is an operational framework that extends DevOps best practices to infrastructure and application automation. It uses Git as the single source of truth for your declarative infrastructure and applications.

Think of it as "operating infrastructure with Git requests." This approach ensures your system's actual state matches the desired state defined in your Git repository.

A core principle of GitOps is declarative configuration. This means you describe what you want your infrastructure and applications to look like, rather than how to achieve it.

• Your desired state is written in configuration files (like YAML for Kubernetes).
• These files are stored in a Git repository.
• Git becomes the single source of truth for your system's state.