Declarative Operations: GitOps in Large-Scale Production Systems
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https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9246.IJETCSIT-V4I2P108Keywords:
GitOps, Declarative Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Deployment, Kubernetes, DevOps Automation, Large-Scale Systems, Microservices, CI/CD Pipelines, Observability, Policy as Code, Version Control, Reconciliation Loops, Deployment Drift Detection, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Git-based Workflows, Configuration Management, Cloud-Native Operations, GitOps Tooling, Scalable DevOps PracticesAbstract
Gitops has developed recently as a breakthrough paradigm in DevOps, offering a fresh approach for automating these infrastructure and application deployment. GitOps is a declarative architecture that enhances visibility, collaboration, and governance between development and the operations teams by basing conceiving activities as code and Git as the final source of the truth. This work investigates the important impact of declarative operations on improving processes within huge scale manufacturing systems, where preserving consistency, scalability, and reliability is sometimes challenging. In dynamic, fast-paced environments, conventional imperative approaches often prove insufficient; this leads to configuration drift, more human involvement, and less system integrity. Supported by GitOps, declarative operations enable more systems to automatically self-correct and match the desired state stated in version-controlled repositories, therefore addressing these kinds of issues. Notwithstanding its promise, huge scale GitOps implementation faces various challenges including preserving state across distributed systems, providing strict security regulations, and handling complex rollback and reconciliation procedures. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the effective implementation of GitOps ideas to big-scale systems, the fundamental architectural issues, and the many other difficulties businesses might run into. We look at pragmatic adoption situations, stress the latest best practices, and provide a strategic road map for companies trying to use GitOps for operational excellence. This research aims to provide a conceptual and pragmatic framework for comprehending GitOps as a driver of modern, declarative operations in manufacturing environments
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