GitOps
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
GitOps is the idea that git is the single source of truth for EVERYTHING — your code, your infrastructure config, your deployment state. Want to change something in production? Make a PR. Merge the PR, and an agent automatically makes the real system match what's in git. No SSH, no clicking, just git.
Real Talk
GitOps is an operational framework where git is the source of truth for declarative infrastructure and application configurations. Automated agents (like Flux or ArgoCD) continuously reconcile the actual system state with the desired state declared in git repositories, enabling auditable, reproducible operations.
When You'll Hear This
"With GitOps, every production change goes through a PR — full audit trail." / "We run ArgoCD for GitOps on our Kubernetes cluster."
Related Terms
DevOps
DevOps is the culture and practice of tearing down the wall between the people who write code (Dev) and the people who run it in production (Ops).
IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
IaC is shorthand for Infrastructure as Code — the idea that your servers and cloud setup should be written in files, not clicked together in a UI.
Infrastructure as Code
ClickOps means building your cloud infrastructure by clicking buttons in AWS console.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a robot manager for your containers.
Pipeline
A pipeline is like an assembly line at a factory.