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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Chapter 11: Pitfall Examples – Experiencing Issues with GitOps

A major section of this book was dedicated to covering the high-level understanding of different GitOps practices, how they are implemented, as well as benefits and drawbacks. This chapter is intended to show some of the drawbacks of GitOps in a more practical way.

To follow along with this chapter, you will need to follow the steps in Chapter 9, Originalist Gitops in Practice – Continuous Deployment, related to getting minikube, a Git repository, and Argo CD set up and running. The assumption throughout this chapter is that the user has Argo CD running in the minikube cluster and Argo CD connected to a Git repository. Although Argo CD is the main tool used for this chapter, that is only because Argo CD is the lightest and quickest to get set up and show pitfalls. This chapter is not intended to show issues with Argo CD, but rather pitfalls that can accompany GitOps in general.

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