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GitOps on Kubernetes

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GitOps on Kubernetes

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- [Instructor] Using a container orchestration platform is another best practice commonly paired with the GitOps approach. When organizations embrace containers, they quickly realize that things get complicated real quick. This is because the disposable nature of containers makes them more challenging to operate at any sort of scale. They're meant to spin up and down whenever the situation calls for it. And with microservice architectures, systems are composed of many services running in containers. So there's typically a lot of them to manage. It gets messy and the complexity increases rapidly as the workload grows and the underlying footprint of host machines expands to handle the number of containers. Traditional practices that we might have used to administer systems running on virtual machines just don't work well for containers. Luckily, this problem was recognized by early adopters of containers, such as Google, who…

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