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Repeatability, Reliability, and Scalability through GitOps

You're reading from   Repeatability, Reliability, and Scalability through GitOps Continuous delivery and deployment codified

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077798
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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? 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Originalist GitOps with Argo CD

After the Git repository, the minikube cluster, and the Helm chart were set up, the DevOps team could now start working on getting the GitOps tools implemented. The first tool to test out for the team was Argo CD. Although Argo CD wasn't the first GitOps tool available, it was definitely the most popular tool. The goal of implementing Argo CD into the cluster was to show both how easily and quickly the solution can be set up and working, and how much work is required to make sure that Argo CD fits into their company's requirements.

Argo CD is open source, which is typically sought after by engineering teams because it is free. There are only a few commands that need to be run to get Argo CD working in a cluster. But the DevOps team would need to document how they would secure Argo CD against unauthorized use, how to leverage multiple clusters, how to bring on multiple Helm charts, and how to deploy across all environments sequentially with...

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