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Get Going With GitOps
GitOps applies DevOps best practices to infrastructure automation. Here's why you may want to bring this concept to your development team.
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Although most of the software development lifecycle is now automated, infrastructure continues to be a largely manual process requiring specialized teams. Yet with infrastructure demands rapidly growing, more organizations now look toward automation for help.
GitOps uses Git project repositories as the single source of truth for managing application configuration and deployment information, says Elliot Peele, senior manager of software development at analytics software provider SAS. "By using declarative specifications stored in a Git repository, it ensures that the desired state of the system is always maintained and continuously reconciled," he explains in an email interview.
Mike Rose, data and analytics director at technology research and advisory firm ISG, notes that a GitOps framework ensures that the entire system — including infrastructure, applications, and configurations — is described in a consistent manner within Git, allowing for consistent, repeatable, and auditable changes across environments. "It enhances transparency and traceability and significantly reduces the risk of configuration drift between the desired state and the actual state of the infrastructure." he states via email.
Peele adds that the approach not only enables continuous integration and deployment, but also provides version management and rollback capabilities, which are crucial for maintaining consistency and reliability in infrastructure management.
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