The State of GitOps in 2021
summary
GitOps principles formalized in October 2021 define declarative, versioned configuration with automatic pull and continuous reconciliation; Flux v2 (a rewrite using the GitOps Toolkit with specialized controllers) became production-ready mid‑2021, and Argo CD reached feature parity by April 2021 while adding a graphical UI. Crossplane enables infrastructure provisioning via Kubernetes, while Terraform does not provide native continuous reconciliation; overall, mature tools are in production use and enable higher deployment frequency and faster recovery.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00GitOps in 2021
- 2:46GitOps basics
- 10:32Flux vs Argo CD
- 12:36Flux Argo CD history
- 19:13Flux vs Argo CD
- 23:49Other GitOps tools
- 26:58Enterprise GitOps
- 31:14GitOps trends
- 34:45GitOps future
- 35:29Q&A
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