Original GitOps basics

The DevOps team was now in a mad scramble to get a GitOps process implemented and adopted. The development teams had continued to break down the old monolithic application into containers to deploy into a Kubernetes cluster, resulting in significant growth of deployable services across all clusters and teams. The haphazard service-oriented architecture style of deployments with tightly coupled version dependencies would soon result in a deployment process that is too heavy to support. This would require significant team growth and manual intervention just to achieve the business objectives.

By implementing Argo CD in the cluster, the team was able to quickly have deployments automatically sync with the cluster tied to the tool. Argo CD is a GitOps tool and closely aligns itself with the group that first coined the term GitOps in 2017. The original intent is to allow an in-cluster engine to execute the desired deployment, known as auto-syncing, with the Kubernetes...