GitOps: Git as the Source of Truth for Your Cluster

The 2020 book covered building software on the platform, and it stopped there. It said so directly: deployment was out of scope. That left the most important half of the loop unwritten, because building an image is only useful if something reliably gets it running on the cluster. The answer in 2026 is GitOps, where a git repository is the source of truth for what should be running and a controller…