gitops-configure-central-and-operator.md

Gitops: configure ACS Central and ACS Operator

Overview

Gitops provides a declarative configuration for ACS Central instances and ACS Operator. GitOps relies on private repository to track changes to the configuration files. The repository contains desired state for each environment configuration.

Gitops repository

See: Gitops repo

Gitops Flow

See: detailed diagram

Benefits

• Consistency: GitOps ensures consistency between configuration and state of the clusters on each environment.

• Flexibility: Gitops makes it possible to run multiple ACS operators simultaneously. It's also easy to override almost anything for the Central.

• Validation: GitOps repository CI validates each changes to spot configuration error as soon as possible.

• Collaboration: It's easy to make changes, review and then late merge it to the repository.

• Auditability: The versioned history of changes makes it easy to understand by whom, when and why changes were made.

Canary rollout

See: release instructions