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GitOps records infrastructure changes as reproducible code

thorsell.io 10 min read Editor score 7/10

The post contrasts manually configured servers and cloud portals with versioned manifests whose changes can be inspected through Git history. That approach makes infrastructure state easier to reproduce and diagnose.

What

GitOps manages a system by expressing its desired state as code and continuously reconciling actual state with it.

How

Software agents automatically pull versioned, declarative state, observe the system and attempt to apply that desired state.

Why it matters

For large-system engineers, keeping configuration history in code makes changes traceable and deployments reproducible.

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