You're reading from Repeatability, Reliability, and Scalability through GitOps Continuous delivery and deployment codified

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077798

Length 292 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

GitOps

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Bryan Feuling

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Fundamentals of GitOps

2. Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Delivery and Deployment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Common Industry Delivery and Deployment Practices

4. Chapter 3: The "What" and "Why" of GitOps

5. Section 2: GitOps Types, Benefits, and Drawbacks

6. Chapter 4: The Original GitOps – Continuous Deployment in Kubernetes

7. Chapter 5: The Purist GitOps – Continuous Deployment Everywhere

8. Chapter 6: Verified GitOps – Continuous Delivery Declaratively Defined

9. Chapter 7: Best Practices for Delivery, Deployment, and GitOps

10. Section 3: Hands-On Practical GitOps

11. Chapter 8: Practicing the Basics – Declarative Language File Building

12. Chapter 9: Originalist Gitops in Practice – Continuous Deployment

13. Chapter 10: Verified GitOps Setup – Continuous Delivery GitOps with Harness

14. Chapter 11: Pitfall Examples – Experiencing Issues with GitOps

15. Chapter 12: What's Next?

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Common originalist GitOps tools

The DevOps team felt as though they were back to square one with their research and implementation. Argo CD would've been the perfect tool for them to use if they had the rest of the delivery process figured out and automated. What they needed to do now was evaluate other GitOps tools in the market to see if they could solve the delivery needs better than Argo CD was able to. After an extensive search for alternatives to Argo CD, they discovered many different tools that all marketed themselves as GitOps tools or Argo CD alternatives.

The first on the list was Flux, which came from a company called Weaveworks. Weaveworks was actually the company that coined the term GitOps a few years ago and they built a tool that is similar to what Argo CD does. And, considering the developers are leveraging helm charts, WeaveWorks has also built out a helm operator to work with their Flux GitOps tool as well. However, the manifest requirements and the lack...