GitOps Is Not Just Git Push
“We do GitOps” has become the new “we’re agile”—everyone claims it, few do it well, and most don’t actually understand what it means. GitOps isn’t just storing your Kubernetes manifests in Git and running kubectl apply from a CI pipeline. That’s just… using Git. The actual value of GitOps comes from a fundamentally different operational model. The Core Principle: Reconciliation True GitOps uses a pull-based model with continuous reconciliation. Your cluster constantly compares its actual state against the desired state in Git and automatically corrects any drift. ...