DevOps Intermediate

What is GitOps?

A practice where Git repositories serve as the single source of truth for both application code and infrastructure configuration.

GitOps extends Infrastructure as Code by using Git as the operational mechanism. All changes to infrastructure and applications go through Git pull requests. Automated agents (ArgoCD, Flux) ensure the live system matches the Git repository.

Benefits include audit trail (Git history), rollback (git revert), collaboration (pull requests), and consistency (single source of truth). GitOps is the dominant deployment pattern for Kubernetes-based environments.

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An open-source container orchestration platform that automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications.

The ability to understand a system's internal state from its external outputs through metrics, logs, and traces.

A packaged, versioned output of a build process — such as a Docker image, JAR file, or compiled binary — ready for deployment.

An architectural style where an application is composed of small, independent services that communicate over APIs.

A popular log management platform combining Elasticsearch (search), Logstash (processing), and Kibana (visualization).

An endpoint or mechanism that reports whether an application is running correctly and ready to handle requests.

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