DevOps Articles

What is GitOps?

The term Gitops was coined by Alexis Richardson, CEO of Weave Works. Gitops is a technical practice that follows the DevOps philosophy.

You define the desired infrastructure configs in git, and a tool or an operator software that sits in your infrastructure watches for any changes in git. If it detects any change in git, it applies those changes to the infrastructure and brings it to the desired state.

For example, in git, the infra config says, for autoscaling, the minimum instance count is 3, and the max is 9.