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The Pros and Cons of GitOps

Published on March 3, 2021

The Pros and Cons of GitOps

GitOps takes familiar tools such as Git and Continuous Delivery pipelines to automate infrastructure. The GitOps approach is vendor-neutral, provides a clear history of changes, and allows you to reproduce or roll back deployments. Yet, we can’t ignore the problems with this approach: Proliferation of repositories, no help for secrets management, or simultaneous file writes. Let’s explore.

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