The latest News and Information on Continuous Integration and Development, and related technologies.
Today Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks are announcing the creation of the GitOps Working Group. This will be an open CNCF community project created inside the CNCF fluxcd GitHub organization as the initial venue for collaboration and open governance.
Creating preview environments as a result of making pull requests is one of those practices that have vast potential and are yet largely overlooked. There is a strong chance that you are not using them, even though they can drastically increase productivity. I will not explain what preview environments are, besides stating that they are temporary environments created when pull requests are made and destroyed when PRs are closed.
Today marks our first step towards the future. Codefresh is launching a number of new features aimed at improving the experience and speed of continuous integration and deployment with GitOps.
In our previous article, we explained some of the issues we see with the current generation of GitOps tools (which we call GitOps 1.0). In this article, we will talk about the solution to those issues and what we expect from GitOps 2.0 – the next generation of GitOps tooling.
In our previous article, we explained the vision behind GitOps 2.0 and the features we expect to be covered by GitOps 2.0 tools. In this article, we will see how the new Codefresh GitOps dashboard is the first step towards this vision and more specifically in the area of observability and traceability.
GitOps as a practice for releasing software has several advantages, but like all other solutions before it, has also several shortcomings. It seems that the honeymoon period is now over, and we can finally talk about the issues of GitOps (and the current generation of GitOps tools) In the article we will see the following pain points of GitOps.