Understanding effective Git repository strategies

Understanding how to effectively promote applications between stages in a GitOps framework, especially at scale, is a crucial challenge for both developers and platform engineers. Deploying an application to various environments involves navigating complexities beyond a single deployment scenario. With Argo CD, the process becomes more manageable, allowing deployment across multiple clusters without needing multiple CD pipelines.

This section delves into various approaches for managing environments: environment branches, environment per Git, and folders for environments. Each has its pros and cons, and the choice largely depends on the specific needs of the project and the team’s expertise. Companies such as Codefresh [4] have developed solutions to facilitate stage propagation with Argo CD. However, this book focuses more on understanding these approaches rather than specific tools, guiding you to choose the most suitable...