Observability Driven Automation: Beyond GitOps with Keptn

GitOps has arrived and shapes today’s way of delivering applications on cloud-native systems. Although GtiOps controllers maintain the technical state of an application, there are additional – not necessarily technical – things to consider when deploying applications. For instance, we might want to know if we have already consumed our error budgets before deploying a new service version and make this step a conscious decision. Additionally, we want to ensure that the response time of our service is as expected (and agreed with the customer) before shifting the traffic to a new service version in blue/green or canary deployments. This session starts with a concise overview of GitOps, the problems it solves, and other things to consider when deploying enterprise-grade applications using GitOps. After this talk, you will know how you can put observability at the center of your deployment process and how this works based on an example with ArgoCD and Keptn.
Who is this presentation for?
SREs, DevOps, Cloud Engineers
Prerequisite knowledge:
DevOps/SRE, GitOps and Cloud-native fundamentals
What you'll learn?
How to enhance your GitOps deployments using observability data

Thomas Schuetz is a Principal Engineer at Dynatrace and Tech Lead at the CNCF TAG APP Delivery with a very extensive interest in container technologies. He has been designing, building, and operating IT infrastructures for about two decades and currently focuses on infrastructure automation and cloud-native application delivery mechanisms.