cdCon+GitOpsCon 2023

GitOps is quickly becoming the industry standard for continuous deployment, but fully adopting GitOps can be non-trivial in environments with existing CI/CD processes. Whether your team manually runs “helm install” from a release script or uses “kubectl apply” from GitHub Actions, there are existing processes which may conflict with the GitOps philosophy. You can’t abandon those processes wholesale, so what is your path forward? This talk will describe how Intuit has used GitOps to serve our developers, rather than the developers serving GitOps. Our pragmatic hybrid approach makes the best possible use of legacy “push-model” CD while integrating more modern “pull-model” techniques where appropriate. This talk will highlight cases where full-GitOps might not make sense: integrating Argo CD with existing Jenkins pipelines, managing region evacuation and disaster recovery without depending on GitHub, and rendering manifests upstream to provide a complete audit trail. He’ll describe the problems solved and pain points experienced when running a real-world hybrid GitOps environment.