Summary

This chapter provided a compelling view of the cultural revolution in IT, brought about by the adoption of GitOps. It started by establishing GitOps as not just a technological shift but a profound cultural metamorphosis within IT departments. This approach, merging software development with IT operations through Git, transforms operational processes and methodologies, treating infrastructure as an application. It enables automation and precision and extends rigorous development practices to infrastructure management.

A key transformation brought about by GitOps is the establishment of immutable infrastructure, automating the alignment of the infrastructure’s actual state with its desired state, and reducing manual interventions and errors. This chapter also explored the impact of GitOps on IT performance through DORA metrics, offering a quantitative assessment of improvements in deployment frequency, change lead time, failure rate, and recovery time. This chapter...