Adopting Kubernetes has introduced several new complications on how to verify and validate all the manifests that describe your application. There are several tools out there for checking the syntax of manifests, scanning them for security issues, enforcing policies etc. But at the most basic case one of the major challenges is to actually understand what each change means for your application (and optionally approve/reject the pull request that contains that change).

Better DevOps makes for more efficient engineering teams and more reliable releases, and when it comes to DevOps, it doesn’t get better than GitOps. According to DevOps-As-A-Service: One of the many goals of DevOps is to reduce Time To Value (TTV) and to provide faster feedback while enabling developers to easily self-service or not have to engage to get a service at all.