Practical tips and tricks for CI/CD success

Are fragile scripts and configuration drift breaking your CI/CD? Learn how a declarative GitOps workflow creates a self-healing, auditable, and secure delivery pipeline.

#1about 7 minutes

From imperative commands to declarative configuration

Imperative commands are brittle and hard to manage, leading to a declarative approach where you define the desired state, though manual application still poses risks.

#2about 14 minutes

Understanding GitOps principles and the reconciliation loop

GitOps uses Git as a single source of truth and a continuous reconciliation loop to automatically align the live system state with the desired state defined in code.

#3about 6 minutes

Implementing GitOps with Keptn for lifecycle orchestration

Keptn, a CNCF project for application lifecycle management, adopts a GitOps model using custom resource definitions (CRDs) and an operator to manage deployments declaratively.

#4about 9 minutes

Live demonstration of a Keptn GitOps pipeline

A live demo shows how pointing Keptn to a Git repository automatically creates a project, services, and triggers a multi-stage delivery pipeline with tests and evaluations.

#5about 9 minutes

Q&A on Keptn's advantages and career journey

The speaker answers audience questions about his career path, the advantages of Keptn over tools like Argo CD, and its compatibility with platforms like OpenShift.