Integrating GitOps and GitHub

GitHub Actions offers a powerful automation tool within the GitHub ecosystem, enabling developers to streamline their software development workflows. Specifically, a GitHub Action can significantly enhance a GitOps workflow by automating the building and pushing of Docker images for services, followed by the deployment of new versions to Kubernetes clusters. This capability simplifies the CI/CD processes, making it easier for teams to maintain and update their applications efficiently in a cloud-native environment.

Best practices suggest that when you want to use this GitHub Action, your GitHub repository should have a dev and a master or main branch, and that it should use tags for releases. In the following example, for brevity, we will work directly in the main branch. Best practices suggest working in separate branches.

Here are the steps to automate Docker image creation with GitHub Actions:

1. Click on Actions in the repository’...