Continuous Delivery Foundation / GitOps Summit 2021

Best Practices for Secret Management with GitOps - Kara de la Marck, CloudBees

GitOps uses Git as the “single source of truth” for declarative infrastructure and enables developers to manage infrastructure with the same Git-based workflows they use to manage a codebase. Having all configuration files version-controlled by Git has many advantages, but best practices for securely managing secrets with GitOps remain contested. Join us in this presentation about GitOps and Secret Management. Attendees will learn about different approaches to secret management with GitOps, the issues involved, and the secret management solutions offered by various tools and platforms. We will discuss the pros and cons of Vault, SOPS, offerings by public cloud providers, and more.

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Combining Progressive Delivery With GitOps And Continuous Delivery - Viktor Farcic, Shipa

Three phrases keep popping up when talking about modern workflows and development and deployment techniques. We have continuous delivery to automate the complete lifecycle of applications from a commit to a Git repository, all the way until a release is deployable to production. Then we have GitOps to define the desired states of our environments and let the machines handle the converge the actual into the desired state. Finally, there is a lot of focus on different deployment strategies grouped under progressive delivery. They are all focused on the iterative release of features to make the process safe, prevent downtime, and reduce the blast radius of potential issues. Through a hands-on demo, we will combine Argo CD as a tool of choice for applying GitOps, Argo Rollouts for progressive delivery, and a combination of Argo Events and Argo Workflows.

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GitOps for Great Apes: Policy, PaaS, or YOLO? - Rosalind Benoit, Themist

This talk takes a look at GitOps and Policy Automation through the lens of our cognitive roots. We'll look at software tool use and how it helps us scale the thinking processes we share with other tailless primates. We'll address what Policy solves for GitOps and whether or not our current implementation supports this. In the year of human-centered tech, we'll take a look at cognitive neuroscience, what it means to be a fundamentally human engineer, and how tools can adapt. Check out a demo of a new platform and understand why the problems it aims to solve, matter to your fellow humans.

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GitOps: Yea or Nay? - Ricardo Castro, DefinedCrowd

GitOps is a paradigm or a set of practices that empowers developers to perform tasks that typically (only) fall under the purview of operations. It’s a way to do Kubernetes cluster management and application delivery by using Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications. Being Git at the center of delivery pipelines, engineers use familiar tools to make pull requests to accelerate and simplify both application deployments and operations tasks to Kubernetes. GitOps software agents (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux, and Jenkins X) can alert on any divergence between Git with what's running in a cluster, and if there's a difference, Kubernetes reconcilers automatically update or rollback the cluster depending on the case. This talk will include a demo of ArgoCD/Flux/Jenkins X on how to configure and use it to accelerate and simplify application deployments.

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Keynote Panel: Why GitOps? - Tracy Ragan, DeployHub; Dan Garfield, Codefresh; Cornelia Davis, Weaveworks; Moderated by Dan Lorenc, Google

GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and the DevOps pipeline, how do they fit together and how are they different? Join this amazing panel of industry leaders including Cornelia Davis, Weaveworks, Tracy Ragan, DeployHub, and Dan Garfield of Codefresh, moderated by Dan Lorenc of Google and the CDF TOC chair. Hear how they define GitOps and where it fits into CI/CD. They will explore the beginnings of GitOps and discuss how it will mature as more companies begin their journey into operations by pull request. Learn if GitOps will work for your organization and understand the challenges before you make the move.

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Level Unlocked: GitOps to the Edge and Infrastructure Provisioning - Katie Gamanji, The Linux Foundation

Within its 7 years of existence, Kubernetes has been the centerpiece of the cloud native landscape, elevating a pluggable system that led to the diversification of the technology ecosystem. As a result, multiple areas have developed in the industry, galvanizing solutions for components that introduce standardization, guidelines, and interoperability of the tools. To innovate the developer experience and delivery of the application, the community focused on restructuring and modernizing the CI/CD operations.

This talk will outline how cloud native GitOps tools, such as ArgoCD and Flux, unlock the zero-touch deployment of infrastructure and applications at the edge. Attendees will acquire an understanding of GitOps usage in association with ClusterAPI for infrastructure provisioning and KubeEdge for the service propagation to the edge.

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Managing Storage via GitOps - Christian Hernandez, Red Hat

GitOps is a practice of DevOps teams that uses Git as a source of truth for their Kubernetes platform. Using GitOps, the entire system described declaratively, the canonical desired system state versioned in Git, and approved changes that can be automatically applied to the system. This gives you the advantage to quickly restore from a disaster. This is great for stateless applications. But what about your stateful applications? In this session Christian will take you though the challenges with managing storage in your GitOps workflows. In addition, Christian will go through some tips and tricks to help along your GitOps journey.

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Progressive Delivery at Intuit, the Next Chapter in a GitOps Journey. - Henrik Blixt & Jesse Suen, Intuit

After successfully implementing a GitOps based platform, now spanning over 350 clusters and thousands of services, Intuit is embarking on a new journey of progressive delivery. Accelerating developer velocity and innovation while ensuring smooth service introductions and upgrades, are some of the key goals of this effort. Come and hear Henrik and Jesse dive into their vision of a progressive delivery platform, what they have already done to realize this and how it’s being rolled out at scale at Intuit. The talk will draw experiences and examples from their work at Intuit and the use of Argo CD and Argo Rollouts, but the concepts, ideas and results are equally applicable to other GitOps/progressive delivery tools and for companies in similar situations.

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ReleaseOps: GitOps for the People - Lian Li, Container Solutions

MoneyBank Inc. is a fintech enterprise that recently made the jump to K8s and GitOps to cope with the shift of demands from cranking out features towards stability and scalability. Yet, even with a fully automated CICD and shiny new microservices, features still take weeks to be released. As teams keep waiting on each other, frustrations, resentment, and mistrust grow.
MoneyBank’s situation is typical for organizations with enterprise processes and startup mindsets. When faced with problems, the urge is often to move fast and automate them away. However, the cultural and regulatory structures to support these changes are not in the scope of said automation. One more piece is missing to address the needs of non-technical stakeholders within the ever-changing CICD landscape.
In this talk, we will attempt to automate the non-automatable with ReleaseOps: GitOps for the people.

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Self Healing GitOps: Continuous, Secure GitOps using Flux, Helm and OPA - Om Moolchandani, Accurics

Flux empowers the community to adopt GitOps for K8s without a separate CD tool. Flux triggers automated operations for cluster reconciliation by monitoring changes in git for images and artifacts such as Helm Charts. While Flux enables hyper automation for cluster deployment, how can teams ensure they aren't slowed down by requirements such as security, privacy and compliance? In this talk, Om Moolchandani will discuss how to leverage the power of the Open Policy Agent to automate delivery of secure, compliant deployments. Flux with OPA can ensure that any Helm charts and container images to be deployed, are compliant with the established policies. Om will also demonstrate a new approach of self healing GitOps to the community which leverages OPA's Rego language to remediate risks and violations on the fly.

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The SAME Project: A GitOps Approach to Reproducible Machine Learning with Flux and Kubeflow - David Aronchick, Azure, Microsoft & Chanwit Kaewkasi, Weaveworks

We live in a time of both feast and famine in machine learning. Large orgs are publishing state-of-the-art models at an ever-increasing rate but data scientists face daunting challenges reproducing results themselves. Even in the best cases, where a newly forked code runs without syntax errors, this only solves a part of the problem as the pipelines used to run the models are often completely excluded. The Self-Assembling Machine Learning Environment (SAME) project is a new Kubernetes, Kubeflow and Flux project and community around a common goal: creating tooling that allows for quick ramp-up, seamless collaboration and efficient scaling - through the magic of GitOps. This talk will discuss our initial public release, done in collaboration with data scientists from across the spectrum, where we are going next and how people can use our learnings in their own practices.

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Welcome & Opening Remarks - Tracy Miranda, The Linux Foundation

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