What is GitOps, How GitOps works and Why it's so useful

[@TechWorldwithNana]

► Follow me on IG for behind-the-scenes content 😊: bit.ly/2F3LXYJ ► Become a DevOps Engineer - full educational program: bit.ly/3gEwf4V ▬▬▬▬▬▬ T I M E S T A M P S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 - Intro 0:14 - Infrastructure as Code - X as Code 1:31 - Using IaC the wrong way 4:17 - What is GitOps? 4:38 - How GitOps works? 6:35 - CD Pipeline: Push vs Pull Model 8:48 - Easy Rollback 9:27 - Git - Single Source of Truth 10:09 - Increasing Security 11:09 - Wrap Up ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Courses & Ebooks & Bootcamp 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Become a DevOps Engineer - full educational program 👉🏼 bit.ly/3gEwf4V ► High-Quality and Hands-On Courses 👉🏼 bit.ly/3nIouPW ► Kubernetes 101 - compact and easy-to-read ebook bundle 👉🏼 bit.ly/3mPIaiU

[@ravimaisa5772]

hi nana GitOps seems more like git pull request pls clarify me bit confused..,

[@elad3958]

I'm beginning to realize your youtube channel is the best spot on the web for all things Devops. When I learn something from you channels I will always share the URL. We are connected on linkedin. My name is Elliott Arnold. Just want to let you know how effective your Tubes are. Happy 4th of July (Im in America lol)

[@TechWorldwithNana]

@@elad3958 Wow thank you for this amazing feedback Elliott! Thanks especially for sharing and spreading the word 😊Happy Independence Day! :)

[@bhagarenikhil]

I read many articles but did not find any article in which concepts are explained in a clear and crisp manner. You are awesome!

[@yashkumarbarot581]

This the only video one needs to watch to know what GitOps is all about. Great explanation Nana. Thanks.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks a lot Yashkumar, happy to hear that! :)

[@zlonux]

Thanks Nana for the great video! Honestly, i don't know why 'gitops' appers as a separate direction, because as soon as you treat your infrastructure as a code, you have to apply all practices that you use for developers code i.e. vcs, build pipelines, tests, stages etc. - because it's a code. But, how to build your 'build' infrastructure as code (egg or chicken:))

[@ramkannan8955]

Alex Have you got the answer to your question. It seems she is not answered

[@jelledenburger992]

I agree, I find the line between IaC & GitOps to be very blurry. I think most IaC guys already adopt some kind of GitOps without realizing it.

[@GoglidesDev]

'gitops' appears as a separate direction -> Simply speaking, GitOps is IaC. I think it's going in a different direction (personal opinion, I could be wrong) is this practice is popular in container space (especially in orchestration tools like Kubernetes), where there is a concept of operators/controllers which keep looking for declarative config changes on git and making sure deployed state always reconcile with git state. It's the same thing in IaC, where IaC can have CI/CD pipeline doing the same job. Same principle, same workflow, but gaining popularity because k8s (or similar orchestration) becoming more mature.

[@polinakoornneef1145]

We were doing GitOps without realizing it. When I first heard about GitOps I thought that it is a new framework, but at it seems that the name is new.

[@nicolasafonso8916]

@@jelledenburger992 In my opinion, the most critical size of GitOps related to "storing IaC files and monitor evolution" is in the testing part. The way in which you verify the deployment (both by reviewing or which some sort of automation) makes the difference. (Just an opinion)

[@brutusmaximumus]

A pattern we are using is to apply to a very low environment (e.g., dev or a devops dev env) from the PR itself. This allows teams to test the apply of their PR before merging to main and helps catch "apply time" errors. One challenge you have with this is that multiple PRs can overwrite each other's test apply maybe before the first one has been completely validated. To support this we put have a standing rule if there is an open PR < 2 hours old, hold off creating yours, or talk to the requestor first. If its over 2 hours, go for it unless you are nice then go talk to them first. Since we have composed our repos around teams there is rarely a conflict.

[@michaelmichael8406]

As always, clear and cogent information with no wasted time. Thank you.

[@krisnrg]

Agreed great channel

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks Michael, really happy to hear! 😊

[@invalidred]

+1

[@mzhxj69]

+1, Yes, as always. Thank you

[@sVIIDragonfly]

Thats why i am here ;)

[@saikiran351]

You have a gift for making complicated stuff seem easy! Your teaching is smooth, clear, and packed with technical expertise.

[@ericfisher9385]

Presenting and explaining complex concepts in a simplified and easily understandable manner is your superpower! Thank you!

[@opinoynated]

Thank you! GitOps is really valuable for AI research teams as well. Most of the time, blockers in development are caused by limitations in the infra and the turn around time before requirements are applied are usually long because of submitting ticket requests and discussions just so infra managers can do the changes.

[@aaronsteers]

Love this video! You did a great job explaining IAC. XaC was a new concept to me, but I may use this in the future. Also, I appreciated the clear way in which you described the natural evolution of IAC, why the local dev pattern is flawed, and how we solve that with git-managed pipelines.

[@NARASIMHAM1002]

Thank you Nana for clear and crisp explanation. It clearly shows your passion for tech!

[@mihai6564]

many thanks. I did the gitops in my project for many years. But only now I realized it is called gitops

[@vipinmittal2415]

Wow Nana. I am falling in love with these videos. why I found these videos so late. Thank you so much for these detailed concepts explanations. your videos are exactly what I needed at this point of time. Thank you. Please don't stop.

[@stuffedcode]

Great explanation on what GitOps is! Loved the CD integration part explanation, it's spot on!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Appreciate your great feedback, thank you! :)

[@4eversuju]

wow! Thank you so much for this review Nana! Super helpful and I finally understand why some people choose to use jenkins versus argocd! Thank you so much!

[@gabrielarodriguez7320]

Thanks Nana!!, this is what I was looking for, you made it easy to understand! :)

[@linamargothpinerosrubiano3684]

So good! Thank you very much Nana!! What I loved from this video is you make no assumptions, therefore elaborated the idea of GitOps in a very clear way for beginners and probably for advanced users who might lost any bits of info before… brilliant!!

[@travelvidme4796]

Loved the video. Simple... Powerful and very visual. I watch every day to gain small amount of wonderful knowledge

[@saidireddy2246]

we are exactly using & following the same process, good to know follow this in detail and the global standards.

[@indiansouls8357]

Outstanding way of presenting an overview with clear and concise info 🙏

[@tuanquynet]

Thanks. The explanation in video is short and but clear and understandable.

[@ikelewis678]

Thanks for making the video that finally made the pull based GitOps concept click for me.

[@sivakumar-hs3rd]

Cristal clear explanation thank you Nana

[@aaen9417]

These videos are great Nana. Thank you so much

[@ajitmohanraj]

Your videos are very clear and the animation is so sharp ! Thank you

[@kolos121]

Great information! One thing I'd like to add is that in any urgent events (example the need to upgrade infrastructure due to high traffic) you would still want to leave open doors to do this quickly, like just doing terraform apply and skipping the whole commit and CI/CD workflow. Of course you should still commit this change but when seconds count you have to be prepared to break certain rules.

[@andreynazarenko]

I am new to the devops practices and these kind on videos are really great, simple, clear and easy to understand for me. It helps me to figure out instantly what is what and what direction to go. Thanks 🙏

[@GermanLarez]

Sounds great when you put it that way, perhaps organizations should emphasize more in this, always thanks for sharing!

[@marabgc20]

I just discovered your channel and it's really really helping me begin to understand all this concepts and technologies! Thank you so so much, your videos are wonderful

[@mohzaher2000]

Many thanks for the video Nana. A really very exciting feature for sys admins and net admins. Could you please consider a video that explains your ideas about SRE role? Ironically I found many professionals who don’t really know what an SRE is!!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks Mohamed and yes we will consider it!

[@talhajahangiri8656]

Hats off Nana for such precise and informative video of topic I was struggling to understand. Thanks and keep posting. Best wishes

[@michaelpacheco7421]

Amazing and clean explanation. Straight to the point! One question: why the need of a separate git repository? Why not the same production code repository?

[@1982iniceman]

Well one logic according to me is Benefit 1 : Access to infra code to only those team members , clear separation of concern between app code and infra

[@manuelnucci_]

Very clear explanation! We'll have to change focus and start DevOps teams to develop their own CI/CD pipelines

[@iamjimgroth]

Very clear and understandable explanation of GitOps. Thank you.

[@lucasfe3436]

Nana, your contents are amazing! thank you very much!

[@kalankaraivilakkam]

Hi Nana, Great job once again. You did it right, I am extremely satisfied with more information in less than 12 mins. You got a great teaching skills too :)

[@cesarolavo]

I came across one of your videos this morning completely by chance (well, not exactly by chance, ain't it, google?) and now I'm hooked on your channel. Kudos, Nana! All videos clear and precise. This will save me a few bucks. Sorry, Udemy! ;-)

[@ИванЖалдак-ю8у]

Now this is how you make an educational video! Great job!

[@Ferregus]

Awesome video Nana, thank you a lot! I'm waiting for one about argocd.. Greetings from Brazil :)

[@awsomeslayer1]

Can you show a live example of how Gitops would work when multiple people are updating it? I would really like to see a real-project like situation where Gitops is helping in project development.

[@laffinkippah]

It's actually explained in the video, maybe you missed it. Different people submit different changes as PRs that need to be reviewed and approved by other members of the team. Once the PRs are approved, they are merged into the main branch (sequentially, in the same order they get approved). Each time the main branch changes, those changes are pulled to (or pulled from) the actual infrastructure.

[@jazzochannel]

@@laffinkippah explaining a concept and showing a practical example is not the same thing. maybe you missed that?

[@arpanchakraborty9874]

Just clear and crisp. Bless you. Thanks so much

[@vasudevadernierstuff]

i was just learning devops but this also makes me interesting.

[@R_Mahesh5]

Kindly, make a complete course material on GitOps with all Practical deployments and GitOps structure… end to end GitOps course please

[@urdarkside1]

Hey Nana, Kindly make videos on Network as code, Policy as code, Security as code, Configuration as code. 💯 Thanks.

[@KevinAyres-r6e]

Great stuff as always Nana! I would love to see Rancher/Longhorn/NeuVector type preso on GitOps-CI/CD. For us Rancher on EKS users with CodePipeline, etc. Exciting stuff - thanks again

[@chuongtran6224]

Thanks Nana for the great GitOps introduction!

[@gustavozanattabruno3539]

Congratulations from Brazil for the didactics and for the english

[@AlayDhagia]

Simple and clear. Thank you for putting it up

[@robwells57]

Consistently high S/N ratios. Thanks Nana!

[@narendrar9940]

As usual great video, simple and easy to understand, this is helping new learners very much. Thank You!

[@abigailcharteris4329]

Thank you for this informative presentation, as a developer this seemed really obvious to me and it's what we did when we moved to cloud. The CI/CD pipeline is pretty much the same as app dev pipelines. What I'd like to see is the automated testing and validation of IaC - this is a well defined process with rich tooling in coding languages like Java, C# etc etc. but what are the best practises for IaC?

[@jaxparrow1794]

As always, top notch, Nana! Thanks!

[@sandeeptembare]

Thanks Nana again, its helpful. I hope will do some hands on...

[@dsinghr]

Nana explanation is amazing

[@FriedrichBrunzema]

Very nice video, short and concise.

[@cristianocolangelo9920]

Hi Nana excellent content as usual. Tip: you probably need some phono absorbing panels to remove the annoying echo :-)

[@jmrumble]

You can try surrounding the mic with stuffed animals or ruffled blankets.

[@kirancn8394]

Crystal Clear explanation Nana. Great work !! Can you please make a video on Chaos Engineering and CHaos Mesh tool. Just a request. Thanks

[@jayrizzo1454]

Topic: Best ways to help identity differences in environments. Dev, QA, Staging, Production. There are so many ways, what are the best practices for maintaining environments for code hotfixes, db structures changes etc. That might be different between environments/servers. Or best ways to validate there are no differences. Broad topic. But curious.

[@pritomdas6215]

So well explained, kudos to this kind of quality content!!!

[@manedurphy]

Excellent content as always. Thank you, Nana!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks Dane, appreciate your comment :)

[@tba77]

Well explained and very clear, for me the difficulty are testes/unit tests for infrastructure for example with terraform it's not straight same thing with ansible and it takes time (we don't have access to world wide cloud like amazon or google) so for me I am using gitops I would say at 50% and trying to get it to 100% great video thank you

[@rb3694]

testes for infrastructure? i'd like to know what sort of tools you use for that son

[@tba77]

@@rb3694 Hi as I said in my previous comment we don't have access to aws GCP or Azure in my country so virtualization is still using on premise servers using vmware for most of them I mainly use terraform and ansible for IaC and for tests I tried to use ansible with molecule and goss there is also terratest but I don't master go language to be able to use it I am still learning

[@DoodleIO.]

loving your videos👏👏 .. very informative and easy language ..please keep making videos for us 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@joemadrid9706]

Very helpful. Smooth explanation!

[@aL3891_]

great, concise summary as usual :)

[@feiyang9136]

very nice and useful video, my company flow is the same with your video. Pluse terraform enterprise, which has a queue for TF changes.

[@rajitpaul4676]

Thank you so much for this wonderful explanation!

[@sebastiaanstoffels7565]

Great video Nana!

[@GabrielMamuttee]

Awesome! Please more videos on the subject!

[@balapurambhaskar]

Great video. Excellent explanation about GitOps.

[@geanfrancovolpe]

Thank you for this video, i've learned a lot!

[@omarsyr5802]

Nice and clear explanation. Thank you.

[@simaattar3154]

Your videos are wonderful, Thanks!

[@gmitto75]

Love all your courses. Wish there was a course on Apache Spark from you.

[@trump1688]

Thank you for the great explanation! Easy to understand!

[@leahleiva8060]

So clear and useful- thank you!

[@NR-bt7yz]

Awesome job Nana - thanks!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for your support, much appreciated!

[@aietisreekar2425]

I'm huge fan of u'r explanation

[@MrArtod]

So good videos, dude, helped me so much 🤗

[@cambellajoe]

As always, awesome content

[@vailtonbeserra9408]

Your videos are great !!!!

[@jemjafp]

Thanks for the video, is so good, Saludos desde Perú! :3

[@Kafir_Hindu]

OPS world has redefined everything and send everyone to the nursery classes to relearn everything. It's new world and a fairy tale land👍

[@leorotondano]

Awesome video! Congrats

[@soumyamisra4936]

Thank you for the explanation. As you mentioned testing the config files and IAC code. Do you have any videos on how to test our IAC code and config files?

[@andreapetrelli410]

Thank you as always!

[@rbelatamas]

Thank you so much! Brilliant video!

[@GibranCastillo]

Pull deployment seems to be better. I am sure the push deployment is useful for certain setups.

[@JonathanLoscalzo]

Something that I think is a kind of interview questions. Rollback are ok, but... What does it happen with "migrations", or something that you might need to "rollback", these scenarios are not trivial I think... Great Content and useful!!! I would like to start your intro to kubernetes, Perhaps... following week.

[@chandup]

As always, you rocked it!! Thank you. Just curious, what are the different tools and software do you use to make your videos?

[@netUncle]

It's amazing lot more better than other videos I watched. Because very clear speech, nice easy and slowly pronouncing words. And lot more efforts put in visualization. This is the key and makes it amazing and best of the best. Keep up the good work. I have one question, how do we test IaC, can we write tests for it, or just create all infra in test account or something and then verify manually???

[@EdivanCamargo]

Wait a moment. Isn't this just Git Flow with personalized pipelines running Tests/CI/CD against Terraform/Ansible files? By the way, the explanation was great as always!

[@johnny2703]

Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@nas-veridid]

Thank you Nana.

[@sereose]

Thank you for the video. Very informative.

[@harshitaarya7619]

Just what I needed

[@santosharakere]

Excellent video, thanks👍

[@mykhailokoliadko7737]

As usual AWESOME!!!!!😬😬😬😬😊

[@natahmad84]

Thanks, that was very clear!

[@hassannawazish9300]

Thanks for this knowledge.

[@iakashpatel]

hey Nana, thank you :) learning a lot from your videos

[@TechWorldwithNana]

That's great to hear, thank you Akash :)