Automating Kubernetes with GitOps
Course Description
Automating Kubernetes with GitOps is a hands-on training program designed to teach DevOps engineers, platform teams, SREs, and cloud-native practitioners how to manage Kubernetes clusters using GitOps principles. This course explores how to automate deployments, enforce consistency, improve reliability, and streamline operations through declarative infrastructure and version-controlled workflows.
You’ll learn the foundations of GitOps, how it differs from traditional CI/CD practices, and how to use leading GitOps tools—such as Argo CD and Flux—to automate Kubernetes configuration, deployments, rollbacks, and environment management. The course covers best practices for structuring repositories, managing multi-cluster environments, securing pipelines, and implementing continuous reconciliation patterns.
Through guided labs and real-world examples, you’ll gain the practical knowledge required to build scalable, self-healing, and automated Kubernetes platforms powered by GitOps workflows.
What You’ll Learn
GitOps Core Concepts
Principles of declarative infrastructure and desired state management
How Git becomes the single source of truth for Kubernetes operations
Differences between GitOps, CI/CD, and traditional deployment methods
Kubernetes & GitOps Tooling
Deploying and configuring Argo CD or Flux for GitOps automation
Managing Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize, and environments
Automating deployments, sync policies, and rollback strategies
Operational Automation
Continuous reconciliation and cluster drift detection
Git-based rollbacks, promotions, and environment versioning
Multi-tenant and multi-cluster GitOps architecture design
Security & Governance
Securing GitOps workflows with RBAC, SSO, and signed commits
Managing secrets with sealed secrets, SOPS, or external secret managers
Ensuring compliance and auditable change management
Scaling GitOps
Managing microservices and large-scale deployments
Integrating GitOps with CI pipelines and automated testing
Best practices for production-grade GitOps operations
Who This Course Is For
DevOps and SRE engineers
Kubernetes administrators and platform engineers
Cloud-native developers managing application deployments
Teams seeking consistent, automated infrastructure operations
Anyone adopting GitOps for Kubernetes environments