Flux & an Intro to GitOps - Kwong Tung Nan, Infin8 Sdn Bhd
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 18/12/2023

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Flux & an Intro to GitOps - Kwong Tung Nan, Infin8 Sdn Bhd

Kubernetes as many of us know provides a declarative interface for the infrastructure & state we desire.
Traditionally, in order to have efficient recoveries should anything catastrophic occurs, we save the yaml files in a folder, link to a script file and probably forget about it. As our project grows, files gets more and more complex, and potentially out of sync too. Our confidence that the yaml files are of the current state of the cluster will deteriorate too.
Hence Flux & GitOps. By using nearly the same declarations and methodologies that we are familiar & already apply on our cluster anyways, we place git as the source of truth for our cluster state. Any changes to the cluster must go through git. This enables clear accountability & traceability, while enabling contributions from those that don’t have access to the cluster.
This session also will look into how our company got on the GitOps bandwagon little by little, with little to no impact to production workloads.