The term GitOps has taken hold, arguably earning a spot on the buzzword bingo card. But marketing shenanigans aside, the principles behind GitOps, and the tooling that is being built to enable the practices it promotes promise real value. Join me in this session where I will first introduce the key principles of GitOps and, second I will show you how the practices you embrace will support valuable IT aims such as more frequent and less risky deploys. The software industry has done a good job embracing cloud-native software architectures like stateless microservices – now is the time for us to go all in on cloud-native operations.