What is GitOps?

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What is GitOps?

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An operating model that reconciles a cluster's live state to a declarative desired state stored in Git — GitOps is an operating model, not a tool or a Git host: Git holds the desired state and an in-cluster agent reconciles the cluster to it. It's not push CI running kubectl on merge (the model it replaces), not GitFlow (a branching strategy), and not a manifest storage or documentation service.

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A CI/CD pipeline that runs kubectl apply from the build server whenever code is merged to Git

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A Git branching strategy that dictates how teams merge feature, release and hotfix branches

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A hosted service that stores Kubernetes manifests and renders them as browsable documentation

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