Common originalist GitOps tools
The DevOps team felt as though they were back to square one with their research and implementation. Argo CD would've been the perfect tool for them to use if they had the rest of the delivery process figured out and automated. What they needed to do now was evaluate other GitOps tools in the market to see if they could solve the delivery needs better than Argo CD was able to. After an extensive search for alternatives to Argo CD, they discovered many different tools that all marketed themselves as GitOps tools or Argo CD alternatives.
The first on the list was Flux, which came from a company called Weaveworks. Weaveworks was actually the company that coined the term GitOps a few years ago and they built a tool that is similar to what Argo CD does. And, considering the developers are leveraging helm charts, WeaveWorks has also built out a helm operator to work with their Flux GitOps tool as well. However, the manifest requirements and the lack...
