GitOps Services — Declarative Operations, Argo CD, Flux & Git-Driven Deployments

Problem Statement

Infrastructure changes are still made through CLI commands, ClickOps consoles, and “emergency hotfixes” that bypass review. Nobody knows what’s actually running in production because the last Terraform apply was from someone’s laptop — three months ago. GitOps solves this by making Git the single source of truth for both application and infrastructure configuration. Every change is versioned, reviewed, and automatically reconciled. Drift is detected and corrected — not discovered during an incident.

Business Outcomes

• Configuration drift: Undetected → automatically detected and reconciled
• Deployment safety: Manual kubectl/CLI → PR-reviewed, automatically applied
• Audit trail: Scattered logs → complete Git history of every infrastructure change
• Recovery time: Hours → minutes (redeploy from Git)
• Compliance evidence: Manual collection → every change has a PR, reviewer, and automated verification

What We Do — GitOps Consulting

We implement GitOps using Argo CD, Flux, or your preferred tool. Git repositories become the control plane for your infrastructure. Every change follows: PR → review → merge → automated apply → reconciliation → health check. No direct cluster access. No ClickOps. No drift.

Consulting Services

• GitOps Readiness Assessment: Evaluate your current infrastructure management, Git workflows, and deployment patterns against GitOps principles. Output: readiness scorecard and adoption roadmap.
• GitOps Architecture Design: Repository structure design (monorepo vs. multi-repo). Environment promotion strategy. Secret management in GitOps (Sealed Secrets, SOPS, External Secrets Operator). Multi-cluster architecture.

Implementation Services

• Argo CD / Flux Implementation: Full deployment and configuration. Application and application-set definitions. Sync policies. Health checks. Notifications integration.
• Declarative Infrastructure: Convert existing imperative infrastructure (CLI-managed, ClickOps) to declarative Git-managed configuration. Terraform + Argo CD integration.
• Drift Detection & Auto-Remediation: Automated detection of configuration drift between desired state (Git) and actual state (cluster). Automated or notified remediation based on policy.
• Progressive Delivery: Canary and blue-green deployments using Argo Rollouts or Flagger. Automated promotion based on metrics. Automated rollback on anomaly.

Support Services

• Managed GitOps Operations: 24×7 monitoring of GitOps controllers, sync status, and drift detection. Incident response for sync failures and reconciliation issues.

Tools & Ecosystem

GitOps Engines: Argo CD, Flux CD, Jenkins X Progressive Delivery: Argo Rollouts, Flagger, Istio, Linkerd Secrets: Sealed Secrets, SOPS, External Secrets Operator, HashiCorp Vault Git Providers: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Kubernetes: EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift

Operating Model — Git as Control Plane

1. Declare: Infrastructure and application config defined in Git
2. Review: Every change goes through PR review
3. Reconcile: GitOps controller automatically applies approved changes
4. Verify: Health checks confirm deployment success
5. Drift: Any manual change outside Git is detected and corrected or alerted
6. Audit: Every change has a PR, reviewer, timestamp, and diff

Typical Deliverables

• GitOps readiness assessment
• Repository structure and branching strategy document
• Argo CD / Flux — deployed, configured, integrated with your clusters
• Declarative infrastructure configuration (migrated to Git)
• Progressive delivery configuration (canary/blue-green)
• GitOps operations runbook
• Knowledge transfer workshop

Who Should Use This Service

• Platform Engineering Teams managing multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure
• SRE Teams seeking to eliminate configuration drift and manual changes
• DevOps Teams wanting to replace imperative CLI-driven operations with declarative Git-driven workflows
• Organizations with compliance requirements that need complete audit trails for infrastructure changes
• Teams managing 3+ Kubernetes clusters where consistency is critical

Frequently Asked Questions

Does GitOps only work with Kubernetes? GitOps principles were pioneered on Kubernetes (Argo CD, Flux), but the pattern applies to any declaratively-managed infrastructure — Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, even database schemas managed through declarative tools. The core principle is: Git as single source of truth, automated reconciliation, PR-driven changes.

How do you handle secrets in GitOps? Never in plaintext in Git. We implement Sealed Secrets (Bitnami), SOPS (Mozilla), External Secrets Operator, or HashiCorp Vault integration. Secrets are encrypted at rest in Git and decrypted at reconciliation time. Access to decryption keys is strictly controlled through RBAC.

What’s the difference between GitOps and CI/CD? CI/CD focuses on building, testing, and delivering application changes. GitOps focuses on ensuring that the actual state of your infrastructure matches the desired state declared in Git — continuously. They integrate: CI builds the container image, GitOps deploys it. The pipeline pushes to a registry; the GitOps controller pulls and reconciles.