GitOps is still an aspirational concept for most mainstream enterprises, but some IT pros in highly regulated industries believe it’s the best way to modernize IT governance.
The term refers to a set of practices that use Git code repositories as a single source of configuration and deployment data for IT infrastructure. Tools such as Flux and Argo CD, which emerged from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, link Git repositories to Kubernetes clusters for deployment, and IT vendors such as Red Hat have begun to build these tools in with Kubernetes platforms.