This is the first in a series of articles about Flux CD, and introduces the foundational knowledge of GitOps. GitOps is a term coined by Weaveworks in 2018. It has been referred to as the best thing since Infrastructure as Code, and has also been referred to as being versioned CI/CD on top of declarative infrastructure. Much like how DevOps broke down the silos between Developers and Operations/Infrastructure Teams, GitOps merges the concerns for application deployment with infrastructure dep...