How We Took GitOps a Step Further

GitOps has changed how teams manage infrastructure and deployments, making everything more automated, predictable, and version-controlled. But a question popped up in our mind: Can we make it better? We are in the business of building Internal Developer Platforms (learn more about them here). One of the core values of IDPs is allowing developers to move as fast as possible with as much safety as possible. However, we realized that the traditional GitOps workflow was creating friction for developers. In this post, I’ll give you a brief history lesson of GitOps - how it started, where we find it lacking, and what we did to push it further… Support us

Mar 6, 2025 - 11:39

GitOps has changed how teams manage infrastructure and deployments, making everything more automated, predictable, and version-controlled. But a question popped up in our mind: Can we make it better?

We are in the business of building Internal Developer Platforms (learn more about them here). One of the core values of IDPs is allowing developers to move as fast as possible with as much safety as possible. However, we realized that the traditional GitOps workflow was creating friction for developers.

In this post, I’ll give you a brief history lesson of GitOps - how it started, where we find it lacking, and what we did to push it further…