Summary

This chapter covered GitOps, why we need it, its principles, and various GitOps deployments. We also looked at different kinds of repositories that we can create to implement GitOps along with the branching strategy choices for each of them. We then looked at a hands-on example of GitOps with declarative infrastructure and config management where we used Terraform to create a Kubernetes cluster using GitOps.

In the next chapter, we will deep dive into GitOps and look at application management with pull model GitOps and the end-to-end GitOps life cycle.