Where GitOps is Applied

Understand the scenarios in which GitOps is most frequently applied to manage systems.

When to apply GitOps

GitOps is a relatively new concept, so there’s a lot of excitement in the space that has generated many ideas about how the pattern can apply to different situations. There is certainly vast potential to apply GitOps across many diverse spaces. However, even at this early stage in its life cycle, several prominent use cases have emerged. We’ll focus our exploration of GitOps on these prominent use cases because they are more proven, better supported, and most applicable.

These use cases include:

  • Infrastructure provisioning

  • Application delivery

  • Release strategies

Applying GitOps in these areas has been proven to increase the efficiency and stability of system operations.

Infrastructure provisioning

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