gitops
n.n. a way of managing computer systems and software by using a tool called Git to track all changes. It means that the code in your repository is the single source of truth for how your system should look.
n. an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development and applies them to infrastructure automation. It relies on a version control system, typically Git, to act as the single source of truth for the desired state of a system.
Our team switched to GitOps to automate our server updates.
By adopting GitOps, the engineering department ensured that every change to the production environment was logged, reviewed, and automatically deployed.
The core strength of GitOps lies in its declarative nature, where the system continuously monitors the live environment to ensure it matches the configuration stored in the version control repository.
A portmanteau of Git, the version control system, and operations. The term was coined by Alexis Richardson in 2017.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Last updated July 22, 2026