CI/CD Beyond Basics: GitOps and Progressive Delivery

CI/CD Beyond Basics: GitOps and Progressive Delivery Modern software teams seek both speed and safety. CI/CD automates builds, tests, and deployments, but the real gains come when we treat infrastructure and releases as code. GitOps and progressive delivery help teams reduce drift, improve traceability, and ship with confidence. They align developers, operators, and product goals in a single flow from idea to production. GitOps in practice follows a simple idea: the desired state of every environment lives in version control. The cluster or platform continuously reconciles that state, so every change goes through code review and a clear audit trail. When something goes wrong, a rollback can be as simple as reverting a pull request. This approach keeps environments in sync, from dev to production, and makes infrastructure changes repeatable and observable. ...

September 21, 2025 · 2 min · 378 words