Learn how to best use GitOps to automate manual tasks in the continuous delivery and deployment process Key Features Explore the different GitOps schools of thought and understand which GitOps practices will work for you and your team - Get up and running with the fundamentals of GitOps implementation - Understand how to effectively automate the deployment and delivery process Book Description The world of software delivery and deployment has come a long way in the last few decades. From waterfall methods to Agile practices, every company that develops its own software has to overcome various challenges in delivery and deployment to meet customer and market demands. This book will guide you through common industry practices for software delivery and deployment. Throughout the book, you'll follow the journey of a DevOps team that matures their software release process from quarterly deployments to continuous delivery using GitOps. With the help of hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you'll build your knowledge of GitOps basics, different types of GitOps practices, and how to decide which GitOps practice is the best for your company. As you progress, you'll cover everything from building declarative language files to the pitfalls in performing continuous deployment with GitOps. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with the fundamentals of delivery and deployment, the different schools of GitOps, and how to best leverage GitOps in your teams. What you will learn Explore a variety of common industry tools for GitOps - Understand continuous deployment, continuous delivery, and why they are important - Gain a practical understanding of using GitOps as an engineering organization - Become well-versed with using GitOps and Kubernetes together - Leverage Git events for automated deployments - Implement GitOps best practices and find out how to avoid GitOps pitfalls Who this book is for This book is for engineering leaders and anyone working in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, build/release, or cloud automation teams. A basic understanding of the DevOps software development life cycle (SDLC) will help you to get the most out of this book. Table of Contents The Fundamentals of Delivery and Deployment - Exploring Common Industry Delivery and Deployment Practices - The "What" and "Why" of GitOps - The Original GitOps – Continuous Deployment in Kubernetes - The Purist GitOps – Continuous Deployment Everywhere - Verified GitOps – Continuous Delivery Declaratively Defined - Best Practices for Delivery, Deployment, and GitOps - Practicing the Basics – Declarative Language File Building - Originalist Gitops in Practice – Continuous Deployment - Verified GitOps Setup – Continuous Delivery GitOps with Harness - Pitfall Examples – Experiencing Issues with GitOps - What's Next? "Having been a hero for IT organizations I realize the battles that are waged to sustain the systems we take for granted. They are the enduring talent that knows the exact script to run, or commands to execute, to bring back our desired apps. That life is one that puts family and selfcare on the back burner due to the impact of constant weekend and evening escalations. Enlightenment and healing come from effective Software Engineering practices like GitOps. Talent heroics is perpetuated by the belief that tasks themselves matter more than the value they create. GitOps supports the idea that a SME can create a process whereby the outcome is attained, consistently, without his/her direct involvement or loss of valuable time. Once you realize the scaling and sustainability that brings, you begin to focus on self-development and continuous improvement . GitOps is the practice of leaving behind worthy evidence of your passage at an organization. Building process-based outcomes, using the skills that make you a SME, that persist beyond your move to bigger more valuable challenges. Sustaining systems, creating services, based on very effective code-based processes. This book is targeted at those individuals in the hope that it will provide them a well-articulated path for enlightenment and healing from their talent heroism." -- Shlomo Bielak (CTO at Benchmark Corp) Bryan Feuling began his tech career as a Help Desk Technician for a Fortune 200 company. His experience includes Database Administration, Application Development, Automation Engineering, and more. He has worked with hundreds of companies to help them avoid the same issues, pains, and engineer burnout that he saw and still sees in the industry. Bryan has helped many companies and engineering teams implement GitOps practices at scale.