Managing GitOps as a Platform Service

Explore the challenges and best practices of implementing GitOps as a platform service in this 28-minute conference talk by Gerald Nunn and Andrew Block from Red Hat. Learn about organizational challenges, deployment models, service models, and the importance of common GitOps standards and tooling. Discover concrete examples and recommendations for platform teams looking to operate GitOps at scale, addressing topics such as trust boundaries, isolation models, logical and physical topologies, and developer autonomy. Gain insights into successful GitOps implementations and how to overcome common pain points throughout the architecture and implementation phases.

Intro
Agenda
GitOps as a Service
Build vs Buy
Platform Ops
Developers
Paradigms
Developer autonomy
Platform ownership
Challenges
Isolation
Isolation models
Safety and resource utilization
Logical topologies
Physical topologies
Intuit topology
Control plane topology
Recommendations
Where do you start
Whats your best practice
GitOps standards
Platform engineering
Resources
Questions