Nordic DevOps Days 2024: Full Schedule

11:40am EET

Empowering SRE with GitOps: Automated Kubernetes deployments with GitLab CI and Flux

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:40am - 12:20pm EET

In today's fast-evolving landscape, the adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles is essential to enhance reliability, scalability, and efficiency in software operations. This talk explores how GitOps—powered by GitLab CI and Flux—serves as a critical enabler in the transformation journey of organizations adopting SRE. By automating Kubernetes deployments, we ensure a declarative, version-controlled approach to managing applications. Attendees will learn about “pull” approach using Gitlab CI and Flux CD and how it differs from traditional CICD “push” approach.

Key takeaways
- SRE transformation (very briefly focus on toil reduction using CICD)
- GitLab CI: showing/explaining build, test and releasing to JFrog artifactory  looking at code
- Starting with FluxCD (explaining the most important concepts: GitRepository & Kustomization resource) – how the integration between Gitlab, K8s and Flux work  looking at code/configs
- Finally integration of CI & CD to put the pieces together  how Git remains the only source of truth (probably a demo if we don’t have a demo effect 😉)
- Short comparison between the traditional CICD approach (push method) vs the Gitops CICD (pull method)

Speakers

Manisha De

Product Owner (Team Lead) SRE, Swisscom

I am an experienced leader in agile practices with a focus in automation, CI/CD processes and Generative AI initiatives. I have a proven track record in creating an innovative environment by facilitating cross-ART (agile release trains) and cross DVS (digital value stream) best practice... Read More →

Marco Gonçalves

DevOps Engineer, Swisscom

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:40am - 12:20pm EET
ScreenX

Track, Subtype 2