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The Chaos of Direct Cluster Access

Before GitOps, engineers ran custom kubectl commands directly from their laptops to debug and deploy. Nobody had a clear overview of what exact configurations were active in production. This led to persistent differences between staging and production, causing outages during standard updates.

Sample ArgoCD Application Manifest

To solve this, we declared the desired cluster state in a Git repository and configured ArgoCD to continuously sync the cluster state with Git. Here is an example of an application manifest:

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: logistics-web-app
  namespace: argocd
spec:
  project: default
  source:
    repoURL: 'https://github.com/thinkalternate/logistics-app-infra.git'
    targetRevision: HEAD
    path: k8s/production
  destination:
    server: 'https://kubernetes.default.svc'
    namespace: core-apps
  syncPolicy:
    automated:
      prune: true
      selfHeal: true

The Daily Release Results

With this configuration, changes are committed to Git, reviewed via Pull Requests, and automatically synced to the cluster in 30 seconds. Release cycle times plummeted from 2 weeks to daily, and deployment failures are reverted instantly by merging a simple revert commit.