I’m trying to understand the real added value of GitOps.
- Jenkins/GitLab CI pipelines with webhooks/poll SCM can already trigger deployments automatically after code commits.
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Prometheus and Grafana handle monitoring and alerting when pods crash or resources run out.
So, if automation and monitoring are already covered this way, what extra benefits does GitOps (with ArgoCD) provide?
Is it mainly about drift correction and rollback from Git, or are there other advantages that justify adopting GitOps in production?
Hi @swapnilgavhale
I agree with your idea. In my view, GitOps adds value mainly by making Git the single source of truth for your cluster state and providing a full audit trail of changes. Every deployment, rollback, or configuration update is versioned in Git, ensuring reproducibility, drift correction, and easy rollback.
For example, when you use GitOps with Kubernetes, even if you change a deployment manually, it will be synced back automatically within 3–5 minutes based on our configuration. This means you can only modify Kubernetes resources through Git, such as via a PR, which I think is a very powerful feature of GitOps.
Additionally, if you want to destroy all resources and redeploy them, for example, when migrating a Kubernetes cluster, you can recreate all related resources in the new cluster with just a few commands.
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