#gitops

git for dummies

Optimizing Delivery: A Technical Analysis of Modern Deployment Patterns

An engineering breakdown of high-frequency deployment strategies, evaluating the trade-offs between infrastructure overhead, rollback speed, and traffic-shifting mechanics in 2026 environments.

Quick thread on why it's gaining traction.

What is GitOps?

Think of it as "press a button to fix your servers"—except the button is just saving code to GitHub or GitLab.

Your Git repository becomes the single source of truth for everything: servers, databases, cloud setup, you name it.

Why small teams are switching:

📂 Git as a single source of truth—No more guessing. Everything lives in one place.

🕰️ Full version history – Every change is tracked. Who, what, when, why.

⏪ Instant rollback – Something broke? Revert to the last working version. Your infrastructure fixes itself.

How it helps freelancers & small teams:

• No dedicated ops person needed – you already know Git • Changes are reviewed like code (safer) • Disaster recovery = git revert

Tools to start with (free tiers):

• Flux – most popular • ArgoCD – great for Kubernetes • GitHub Actions – simple for beginners

Real talk:

If you already use Git for code, you're 80% there. GitOps just extends that habit to your servers.

Kubernetes at Scale: A Practical GitOps Guide

Scaling Kubernetes sounds exciting - until complexity kicks in. What works for one cluster quickly becomes risky when you’re managing multiple environments, regions, and compliance requirements. Manual updates, quick production fixes, and environment differences often lead to configuration drift, security gaps, and stressful incident recoveries.

GitOps changes the game by bringing structure and automation to Kubernetes operations. Instead of pushing changes directly into clusters, teams store everything in Git. Infrastructure and configurations are written as code, reviewed through pull requests, and automatically synced to clusters. Git becomes the single source of truth.

If anything in the cluster drifts from the approved setup, GitOps tools automatically detect and fix it. This reduces human error, improves rollback speed, and strengthens security and compliance. It also makes disaster recovery easier because infrastructure can be rebuilt directly from code.