TLDR Tech / DevOps
GitOps architecture, patterns, and anti-patterns
GitOps has evolved beyond basic demos into production reality, but most platform teams struggle with multi-cluster sprawl, config drift, and secret management when scaling beyond three clusters. The four core principles—declarative configs, immutable versioning, pull-based deployments, and continuous reconciliation—should guide architectural decisions like choosing between Git, OCI registries, or ConfigHub as state stores, structuring repos with trunk-based development instead of branch-based promotion, and implementing hub-and-spoke or autonomous patterns for managing fleets of clusters.
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