GitOps Basics

Summary

A practice where the desired state of infrastructure and deployments lives entirely in a Git repository, and automated tooling continuously syncs the real environment to match — Git becomes the single source of truth.

• 1Read a conceptual explanation of how a GitOps tool (like ArgoCD or Flux) continuously reconciles state.
• 2Learn why GitOps improves auditability: every change has a corresponding commit and history.
• 3Compare a traditional push-based deployment pipeline to a GitOps pull-based model.