GitOps & Progressive Delivery

Purpose and scope

Shift from imperative releases to declarative changes with rollout controls.

Outcomes

• Faster, safer deploys and rollbacks.
• Clear change history and approvals.
• Lower blast radius via canaries.

Signals of trouble

• Manual hotfix deploys bypassing change control.
• Unclear who approved production changes.
• No staged rollout options.

Remediation steps

1. Manage environment state in Git with policy checks.
2. Use canaries/flags; automate promotion and rollback.
3. Record approvers and link to incidents.

Checklists and assets

• playbooks/from-ci-cd-to-gitops/checklist.md implementation steps.

References

• GitOps controllers; feature flag service docs.