GitOps is a relatively new addition to the growing list of “Ops” paradigms taking shape in our industry. It all started with DevOps, and while the term DevOps has been around for some years now, it seems we still can’t agree whether it’s a process, mindset, job title, set of tools, or some combination of them all. We captured our thoughts about DevOps in our introduction to DevOps post, and we dive even deeper in our DevOps engineer’s handbook.

The term GitOps suffers from the same ambiguity, so in this post we look at: