GitOps Best Practices I Wish I Had Known Before
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A practitioner's guide to 12 GitOps best practices drawn from production experience across dozens of Kubernetes clusters. Key lessons include treating Git as the absolute source of truth with no manual kubectl edits, using directory-based environment separation instead of branches, tagging images with commit SHAs rather than
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1. Git is your single source of truth (no, really)2. Declarative over imperative, always3. Pull-based deployments are the way4. Separate app code from deployment config (when it hurts not to)5. Use directories, not branches, for environments6. Validate before you merge7. Tag with commit SHAs, not “latest”8. Automate drift detection and reconciliation9. Practice progressive delivery10. Policy-as-code: your automated guardrails11. Bridge your IaC and GitOps (don’t choose one)12. Be pragmatic, not dogmaticFinal thoughtsSort: