Chapter 9: Originalist Gitops in Practice – Continuous Deployment

Previous chapters have focused on the hypothetical practices of GitOps and some of the questions and concerns that must be considered when wanting to adopt GitOps into a delivery or deployment process. The last chapter showed the practical portion of building out and templating declarative language files. Another major benefit of the previous chapter was showing a small portion of what is required when building out a process that heavily relies on declarative files.

This chapter will explore the originalist GitOps practice with some local development. The desired outcome of this chapter is to give you a better understanding of the fundamentals related to setting up originalist GitOps tools and processes.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:  

• Setting up minikube
• Setting up VSCode
• Setting up Kubernetes and Helm
• Local continuous deployment with...