What this book covers
Chapter 1, The Fundamentals of Delivery and Deployment, explains that to be able to understand GitOps, especially with a wide range of audience familiarity with DevOps and Declarative Languages, a refresher is required to set the proper foundation.
Chapter 2, Exploring Common Industry Delivery and Deployment Practices, after having set a foundational understanding of terms and general concepts, analyzes how others in the industry are solving for delivery and deployment, and discusses the desire to make things "continuous."
Chapter 3, The "What" and "Why" of GitOps, with all of the fundamentals, analyzing, and general concepts covered and understood, dives into what GitOps is and why it matters to the engineering team and business, especially in the desire to have "continuous" practices.
Chapter 4, The Original GitOps – Continuous Deployment in Kubernetes, explains that when the concept of GitOps was first introduced, the intended target was for Kubernetes. This chapter covers why and contains a high-level view of what it looks like in practice.
Chapter 5, The Purist GitOps – Continuous Deployment Everywhere, shows that purest GitOps is the idea that GitOps should work for any deployment type using declarative language, regardless of the technology stack used.
Chapter 6, Verified GitOps – Continuous Delivery Declaratively Defined, explains that verified GitOps is the only concept that looks to define Continuous Delivery as code.
Chapter 7, Best Practices for Delivery, Deployment, and GitOps, contains best practices for the business or team with regard to CI/CD, allowing tool interchangeability.
Chapter 8, Practicing the Basics – Declarative Language File Building, discusses building declarative language files, which is the most basic practical requirement for GitOps.
Chapter 9, Original GitOps in Practice – Continuous Deployment, builds on the experience gained from the last chapter to explain how to set up VS Code and Minikube, and use file-save triggers.
Chapter 10, Verified GitOps Setup – Continuous Delivery GitOps with Harness, explains how to declaratively define the Continuous Delivery process, which provides process repeatability and scalability.
Chapter 11, Pitfall Examples – Experiencing Issues with GitOps, discusses some of the common pitfalls when trying to use GitOps for the first time.
Chapter 12, What's Next?, summarizes the fundamentals, philosophical ideals, best practices, and practical examples.