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GitOps is an idea that entire systems are declaratively specified in code, versioned in Git, and that repositories are a team’s source of truth. There’s some plumbing required that takes the specified code and reconciles the system to that specification. In my experience, GitOps can be taken way too far and end up becoming a hassle. This post discusses some drawbacks of GitOps that I’ve encountered. First: GitOps isn’t awful Before I get into GitOps drawbacks, let me be clear: GitOps-y approaches aren’t always bad....