Posts Tagged "GitOps"

Most Infrastructure as Code Is Broken — and Reconciliation Is Only Half the Reason

Run terraform plan against infrastructure nobody has touched in a month and watch it propose changes. That drift is the absence of a reconciliation loop. But the missing loop is only half of why most Infrastructure as Code is broken — and bolting a loop onto the other half just gets you to broken faster.

Control Repositories

A control repository is a git repository whose contents declare what should be running, intended to be reconciled by an automated controller. It looks like a source repo, but the discipline is different — reviews focus on what the system should be, duplication is often intentional, and the head of main is the state of the platform right now.

FluxCD vs ArgoCD: Architectural Comparison

A deep comparison of the architectural differences between FluxCD and ArgoCD for experienced Kubernetes platform engineers, covering CRD design, state management, controller models, and where each tool wins.

GitOps

GitOps is not just keeping YAML in git. It is a specific operational model where a controller in the cluster continuously reconciles actual state against desired state declared in a git repository, providing audit trail, reproducibility, drift correction, and safe rollback.