Why GitOps?
GitOps provides us with the following benefits:
- It deploys better software more quickly: GitOps offers simplicity in delivering software. You don’t have to worry about what tool you need for the deployment type. Instead, you can commit your changes in Git, and the behind-the-scenes tooling automatically deploys it.
- It provides faster recovery from errors: If you happen to make an error in deployment (for example, a wrong commit), you can easily roll it back using
git revertand restore your environment. The idea is that you don’t need to learn anything else apart from Git to do a rollout or a rollback. - It offers better credential management: With GitOps, you don’t need to store your credentials in different places for your deployments to work. You simply need to provide the tooling access to your Git repository and the binary repository, and GitOps will take care of the rest. You can keep your environment completely secure by restricting...