Approach to GitOps — Achievements, Mistakes and Lessons Learned

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A GitOps pipeline used three years in production to manage many microservices across dozens of environments, built with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Nexus, GitLab and internal tools. Explains concrete artifacts: a public‑key wrapping secrets service, repo layout conventions, Helm chart validation tests, an API to auto‑generate secrets, and a visualization/dashboard. Reports real failures such as manual secret churn and slow builds, the fixes tried, and which fixes actually reduced operational toil.

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1. 0:00GitOps introduction
2. 3:41Monolith to microservices
3. 8:21Octopus config system
4. 12:50Scaling challenges
5. 17:53Secrets management
6. 21:12GitOps tools comparison
7. 23:43GitOps best practices
8. 30:21Q&A

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