are conveniently left out of the GitOps paradigm, and teams that adopt GitOps need to create their own best practices for all aspects of software delivery. Therefore you cannot simply “adopt a GitOps requests each time you do a release. ● 10 Git repositories. This means that you need to write your own solution that copies commits between the repositories (or uses Pull Requests between them). ● A de-facto standard for deploying 3rd party applications in your cluster. It can also be used for your own deployments. Helm works by marrying a set of templates for Kubernetes manifests along with their

for your developers. Especially if your organization has numerous different teams, each with its own set of products, and priorities. A great developer experience gets out of the way, leaving the developer deploy an internal platform that developers use to create and access the resources they need on their own. THE GITOPS GUIDE TO BUILDING & MANAGING INTERNAL PLATFORMS 5 weave.works ▼ The platform team infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters on their own. [The] GitOps approach was the enabler so that even small teams can operate in the cloud on their own. ” — Florian Heubeck, Principal Engineer, MediaMarkt

clear that Christian had developed a strong starting point for organizations looking to build their own GitOps practices. I’m really excited to see those practices summarized for the masses here in The Melvin E. Conway Applying Conway’s law to GitOps, we can expect each team of developers to create its own branches and directories within a repository. Furthermore, the structure will be dic- tated by organizational This is a typical structure in a siloed organization where each team takes care of deploying its own infrastructure. Figure 5-4: The many-to-many model. The drawback of a polyrepo is that it creates

Dockerfile, and Cloud-Native Buildpacks Extend to use community Kubernetes builds strategies or your own custom builds Kubernatives-native image build Supports multiple build strategies Extend with Buildpacks ○ Buildah ○ Kaniko ○ ...more ● Create lean application images ● Extend with your own build tools ● Based on Shipwright open-source project OpenShift Builds 14 Application code Runtime

environments. Each cloud service has different APIs, syntax, and other features, and each comes with its own unique set of “gotchas.” This com- plexity is compounded by the need to ensure consistency in deployment products to market faster. Here are other resources to help you get started with Git to create your own GitOps pipeline. Resources • Set up Git (GitHub documentation) • Install GitLab with Docker

the way software is developed. It makes sense. By giving developers the autonomy to deploy their own code and make infrastructure changes with minimal intervention from Ops, organizations naturally become completion of code to its deployment into production. GitOps gives developers responsibility for their own configurations, application configuration values and topology, while the operations team manages platform-wide

of deployments • Service discovery and load balancing capabilities − As Kubernetes gives its own IP address to Pods and services, it can cross load-balance them • Storage orchestration capability to the Kubernetes' API. COMMON CI/CD CHALLENGES The typical CI/CD approach brings some of its own challenges as listed below: SECURITY With this approach, your CI tooling pushes and deploys images

GitOps Further Resources 11 14 21 23 31 36 eBook 3 GitOps in Practice A “you build it, you own it” development process requires tools that developers know and understand. GitOps is our name for the new images. 2. Sign up for a Travis Continuous Integration Account If you already have your own CI system, you can use that instead. All that Weave Cloud needs is something that creates a container

CircleCI can be used with any git repository. BitBucket Pipeline and GitLab Pipelines prefer their own code repositories. Whatever the selected pipeline platform, its primary goal will be to: Automate