GitOps in the Real World: Barriers and Best Practices
GitOps is critical for ensuring consistency, reliability and auditability in modern infrastructure management. By treating infrastructure changes as code, GitOps helps reduce configuration drift, simplify rollback and enhance traceability. In complex, distributed systems — especially Kubernetes-based environments — GitOps enforces strong operational discipline, enabling faster recovery, tighter security and more efficient collaboration between dev and ops teams.
But GitOps isn’t without challenges. That’s why Octopus Deploy gathered real-world insights on adoption hurdles and best practices directly from the engineering teams implementing it.
Whether you’re new to GitOps or optimizing an existing implementation, join us on July 17 at 10:30 a.m. PST / 1:30 p.m. EST for a special online event, The State of GitOps 2025: Key findings and what they mean to you.
During this free webinar, Octopus Deploy leaders Bob Walker, Field CTO, and Dan Garfield, VP of Open Source, and TNS host Chris Pirillo showcase the results of the inaugural State of GitOps Report. Based on insights from over 600 DevOps and platform engineers, it’s the industry’s first study to deeply examine how real-world teams are using GitOps, what’s driving success and where organizations are falling short.
Register for This Free Webinar Today!
If you can’t join us live, register anyway and we’ll send you a recording following the webinar. Plus, receive a promo code for the best GitOps certification course out there.
What You’ll Learn
By attending this special online event, you’ll leave with best practices, real-world examples and actionable tips including:
- What “good GitOps” looks like in practice — and the six core behaviors that drive results.
- Where GitOps adoption stands across industries, and how maturity levels differ.
- The link between GitOps maturity and DevOps performance.
- Why automatic reconciliation is a game-changer — and why so many teams miss it.
- Actionable insights to improve your DevOps performance using GitOps principles.