After spending the last two years knee-deep in Kubernetes deployments and watching too many “quick fixes” turn into production incidents, I’ve become a true believer in GitOps. Not because it’s the latest buzzword, but because it actually works when you need to sleep at night.

Last month, our team finally finished migrating our entire microservices platform to a GitOps workflow using Helm and OpenShift. It wasn’t pretty, and we definitely learned some things the hard way. But now that the dust has settled, I wanted to share what we’ve discovered about making this stack work in the real world.