Why GitOps?
GitOps provides us with the following benefits:
- It deploys better software more quickly: Well, we discussed this benefit when we talked about CI/CD pipelines. But what does GitOps offer in addition to this? The answer is simplicity. You don't have to worry about what tool you need to use for what type of deployment. Instead, you need to commit your changes in Git, and the tooling behind the scenes automatically takes care of deploying it.
- There is faster recovery from errors: If you happen to make an error in deployment (for example, a wrong commit), you can easily roll it back by using
git revertand restore your environment. The idea is that you don't need to learn anything else apart from Git to do a rollout or a rollback. - It offers better credential management: With GitOps, you don't need to store your credentials in different places for your deployments to work. You simply need to provide the tooling access to your Git repository, and...
