Managing your operational infrastructure using GitOps
Development cannot be divorced from the infrastructure executing the code. We’ve seen this clearly as we’ve journeyed from using GitLab as a source code management tool to defining CI/CD pipelines to define how our source code is built and deployed, with runners (infrastructure) as an essential component of CI/CD.
DevOps properly conceptualized is a culture unifying development and operations. How, then, can we incorporate configuring and managing our operational infrastructure into the GitLab flow already used and understood by developers? The answer lies in implementing GitOps. GitOps is a development practice that falls under DevOps, which encourages using a similar iterative change management model already used by development teams. As the term suggests, Git is an essential part of the workflow. Infrastructure should be under version control, just like application source code. Changes to infrastructure are then...
