Competencies: DevOps > GitOps

GitOps

Body of Knowledge

Topic Description Relevance Career Tracks

GitOps Principles

Git as single source of truth, declarative desired state, automated synchronization, pull-based deployment.

Critical

DevOps, Platform Engineer, SRE

ArgoCD

Application CR, sync policies, ApplicationSets, health assessment, rollback, RBAC, SSO integration.

Critical

Platform Engineer, DevOps

Flux

GitOps toolkit, Kustomization CR, HelmRelease, image automation, multi-tenancy, notification controller.

High

Platform Engineer, DevOps

Repository Structure

Monorepo vs polyrepo, environment separation, app vs config repos, directory conventions.

High

Platform Engineer, DevOps

Secret Management in GitOps

Sealed Secrets, SOPS, External Secrets Operator, HashiCorp Vault integration, GitOps + secrets.

High

DevSecOps, Platform Engineer

Drift Detection

Configuration drift, reconciliation loops, alerts on drift, manual override handling.

High

SRE, Platform Engineer

Progressive Delivery

Argo Rollouts, Flagger, canary analysis, automated rollback, traffic shifting.

Medium

SRE, Platform Engineer

Multi-Cluster GitOps

Fleet, Rancher, ApplicationSets for multi-cluster, cluster fleet management.

Medium

Platform Engineer, SRE

GitOps for Infrastructure

Crossplane, Terraform Controller, infrastructure management via GitOps patterns.

Medium

Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer

Personal Status

Topic Level Evidence Active Projects Gaps

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