OpenGitOps: The Standard for GitOps
Shriira Press
A vendor-neutral standard that pins down what GitOps actually means, so the industry can agree on it independent of any single tool.
Welcome to OpenGitOps: The Standard for GitOps.
For years GitOps was a word that meant slightly different things depending on who said it and which tool they happened to sell. OpenGitOps is the CNCF working group, run under the App Delivery Technical Advisory Group, that fixed this by writing down a small, careful definition everyone can point to. It is not software you install; it is an open standard built from four GitOps Principles — that a system's desired state is declarative, versioned and immutable, pulled automatically, and continuously reconciled — together with a shared glossary and a vision for a maturity model. This book walks through that standard from the ground up. The opening chapter explains what GitOps is and why the industry needed an agreed definition at all. The middle chapters take the four principles one at a time, unpack the terminology the working group settled on, and lay out the reconciliation model that ties everything together. Later chapters show how real tools like Argo CD and Flux embody the principles, and how teams adopt GitOps in practice without rewriting everything they already have. By the end you will be able to read a system and judge, principle by principle, whether it is genuinely doing GitOps.
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