Cloud Native Computing Foundation GitOpsCon North America 2021, 30 Oct 2021

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From YouTube: Welcome & State of GitOps - Dan Garfield, Codefresh & Scott Rigby, Weaveworks

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Don’t miss out! Join us at our next event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia, Spain from May 17-20. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

Welcome & State of GitOps - Dan Garfield, Codefresh & Scott Rigby, Weaveworks

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All right welcome everybody. Congratulations on uh being the first in person, get ops con. That's you! uh All of you were very brave to make it through la traffic and why not to get here, believe it or not.

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This is actually the biggest co-located event at kubecon, um and I know that's very strange, considering like there's not that many people in the stream compared to kubecon normally, but this is actually the largest uh event that's happening, uh so uh I'm dan garfield, I'm the co-founder and uh chief open source officer of code fresh and a co-chair of the get ups working group.

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Scott and I'm scott rigby, I am in developer experience at weaveworks, I'm a uh I'm, a maintainer of the flux project and the helm project, and um also the open getups project with dan.

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Number of other people in this room and online that's.

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Right uh so um open git, ops and the git ops working group is an official uh project within the cncf, whose mission is essentially to create a set of principles and guidelines and best practices around git ops um and it was started. uh Oh actually, we have an announcement.

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We do have an announcement, do you know, are we yeah.

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No they're they're santa they're, okay, good good.

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um It's like being in 3d is so weird right now yeah, so uh the big announcement, which is just helpful for folks to uh build on top of, is the getups principles and glossary have a full release, which was our milestone to do that before kubecon. um So yay, that's good! um It's not super different from what you've seen before. um Maybe we should just go through the slides and show them real, quick.

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Yeah we can, let's do those first, then so, yeah, first of all, first of all, uh these all deal with the desired state and how you handle it, and the first principle is that the desired state must be declarative. So uh no procedural um implementations essentially.

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And there's just a really one: there's a one sentence thing. So we should, we should actually just say yeah.

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Sure, that's it a.

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System managed by get ops must have its desired state express declaratively. um The second is, let's see version and immutable, so desired state is stored in a way that enforces immutability versioning and retains a complete version. History. You.

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Know reasonable.

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uh Pulled automatically software agents automatically pull desired, state declarations from the source, so the most important thing is that you've actually got agents that have access to your your version, desired state and uh continuously reconciled. So software agents are continuously observing the actual system, state and they're attempting to apply the desired state and that's it and the the uh there is a glossary that goes along with these, um so the principles themselves were okay, so this is an effort.

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So so I didn't mean to downplay that, because this is an effort over the past six plus months with people from many different organizations, uh companies other you know, non-corporate organizations to try to really understand how we can simply word these in a memorable way for folks, um while also having some rigorous precision under the hood too.

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So we've at we've moved most of that precision to the glossary and um the goal of dan was saying that the open getups project- you know it's, it's a it's a it's now a cncf project, but the the goal of it is um to be the home for the lasting stuff. So all working groups in cncf are short-lived they're supposed to be short-lived, um get off work. The get ups working group is will continue um at least until it's no longer needed um it guides. You know it helps to organize events like this right now.

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It helps to guide the opengetops project, but the project it's supposed to hold any lasting programs documents and code that are getups related, including things like. If there are events going on, the ups working group should be helpful or excuse me the open, getups project and opengetups.dev. The website should be announcing that folks.

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Yeah, um we have uh put a lot of work into these these principles and while we were able to just talk to them in about 30 seconds, which is how long it takes to just read through it, there's actually a lot of deep wisdom in these ideas and these principles with over 96 different interested parties involved tons of co-authors over 60 different companies involved.

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What we, what we looked at with gitops, is really taking the best practices and best knowledge of years and years of devops experience and putting them into something that is very workable, very practical and very impactful for organizations.

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And what we've seen is that, as people start to adopt these principles, they tend to deploy software faster, more reliably. They have fewer regressions, and this has been. This has been what we've seen and so now that we've had these principles in place um and they're easy for people to follow. I think a lot of people are actually surprised to find out that they're, maybe not doing as much get-offs as they thought.

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We had this experience just a few weeks ago, where coasters capitalist one of my colleagues was giving a talk on git ops and he referenced these principles and before the talk he asked people to raise their hands. How many of you are in get ups today and it was like 60 70 percent of the audience was doing githubs. It was really good. Then he explained what git ops was and then he asked again and it turned out. It was more like five percent of the people were like. Oh uh I'm using git.

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I thought that was the whole thing and it turns out there's more to it than that yeah. uh So to explore those topics. We have a pretty amazing lineup. Today, uh we've got christian hernandez who's going to be kicking off after us, uh giving a keynote um coming from red hat. uh We've got some other talks.

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Yeah we're we're going to just announce people as as they as we go before they before they pop up. I know.

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Chick-Fil-A's is going to be speaking no word yet if they're uh going to be serving lunch- or I don't know if the venue allows that, but you know knock on wood, maybe we'll see yeah, I want it to be, um and uh we should recognize the sponsors as well and organizers of the event um gitops.

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The get ops working group was founded in a partnership with amazon, azure code, fresh github, red hat and, of course, we've works, which uh the whole purpose of this is to be vendor neutral. Within you know, weave works has flux. A popular implementation of git, ops and and code fresh has been working uh quite diligently on argo, so there is representation of other open source projects as well as other vendors, um and many of those are sponsors. Today, yeah.

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um Oh, should we call the diamond sponsors and all of that as well.

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There's all the sponsors, aws aws weave, works, um red hat red hat. There's also, then code fresher, sponsoring and also um there's.

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One more and somebody's standing in front of the sign I was trying to see.

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It like you, move a little bit.

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To the right, I'm like.

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Who is sponsoring thanks.

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Oh hashicorp, I'm so sorry that was, I knew where it was. That was not a secret disc.

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um Yeah, so that's really cool and thank you. um There are some announcements. Oh, how are we doing for time by the way we.

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Have two minutes: okay, great.

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So, thank you. So there are some announcements that are important at the beginning of anything like this to say that um there are uh so we announced the 1.0 version. um We have some events coming up and also, if other people in the audience want to announce github's related events. After these that's totally cool. Please do so there's I know. There's the get ops one stop shop! That's coming up really soon, so I'm mentioning that first, it's october 20th um go to getupstage.com. For that, um then there is argo. Con argo.

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Con is coming up in december, that's a virtual event and it's free to register. So it's just if you just google argo con you'll, find it right away. Yeah.

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And there's uh there's also, you know, of course, there's this event uh the that uh there's kubecon na2021 not only uh for get ops con, this co-located event, but there's also um there's also other get ops related talks throughout the conference. That's not that's. Not only. Today um there are booths. There is the flux, booth, there's the there's, a booth for argo. There.

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Yep, there's a flex booth, there's an argo booth of course, code, fresh red hat, weed works. They all have booths to companies, so go go check those out and see what they're doing and uh should be pretty exciting. Yeah.

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We'll have people on the ground yeah because we are in 3d, so there are actual folks to talk to too. So please take advantage of the fact that you're here for the folks in person and for anyone listening to this out there somewhere, uh there's also virtual participation in those two. So.

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Now we do have a very tight schedule and because this is a hybrid event, there are some virtual talks and the way that this works is when the time is up for an in-person speaker. It doesn't matter if they're still speaking, the virtual talk will just start playing. So that means we better get off the stage. So without further ado, let's introduce christian thanks. Chris.