Declarative desired state
Application and environment configuration described as manifests, so what should be running is readable, diffable and reviewable before it ever reaches a cluster.
Delivery Automation
GitOps & Release Management
Your cluster state lives in Git, and every rollout is a diff you can read.
The work
What this actually does
The cluster should look exactly like the repository says it does, and nothing should change it by accident. We set up a reconciler — ArgoCD or Flux — that watches your manifests and pulls them into the cluster, so a manual kubectl edit is corrected automatically instead of quietly becoming production. Configuration arrives through review, not through someone's terminal history.
Releases then move in steps rather than all at once: a canary takes a slice of traffic, a blue/green switch holds both versions live for a few minutes, and a feature flag separates deploy from release entirely. Rollback is a revert of the commit that caused the drift, applied by the same reconciler that rolled it out.
If any of these sound familiar
- Someone edits a live cluster and nobody knows it happened
- Staging has drifted so far from production that tests mean nothing
- A bad release takes an hour of emergency kubectl to undo
- Environment promotion depends on one engineer's memory and a wiki page
Scope
What's included
Every engagement on this page covers the following, sized to your setup rather than delivered as a fixed package. If something here is not relevant to you, it comes off the scope and off the price.
Continuous reconciliation
ArgoCD or Flux compares live resources against the repository on a loop and corrects drift within minutes, including changes made by hand during an incident.
Progressive rollouts
Canary and blue/green strategies release to a small share of traffic first, with automated promotion or abort driven by error rate and latency measurements.
Feature flag control
Flags let you deploy code dark and release it later per team, tenant or region, so a rollback can be a toggle rather than a deployment.
Secrets out of Git
Encrypted secrets with SOPS or External Secrets keep credentials out of plain manifests while still letting the reconciler inject them at deploy time.
Rollout visibility
Sync status, health and rollout history for every application in one view, so you can see which environments are behind before it becomes an outage.
What changes
What teams typically see
3 minMedian drift correction
1 revertProduction rollback
0Unreviewed cluster changes
Handover
What you keep
Everything produced during the engagement is yours: the repositories, the accounts, the documentation. There is no proprietary layer and nothing to unlicense if you take the work in-house.
- ArgoCD or Flux installed across every target cluster
- Application manifests and environment overlays in a repository you own
- Progressive rollout policy for canary and blue/green releases
- Drift alerts wired into your existing on-call rotation
- Runbook for rollback, sync failure and reconciler recovery
Tooling
Tools we use here
A starting point, not a requirement. We work in whatever you already run wherever it does the job.
Argo CD
Flux CD
Kubernetes
Helm
GitHub
GitLab
HashiCorp Vault
How it runs
From first call to handover
The same four steps on every engagement. You see each one before it starts and can stop at any of them.
- 01
Audit current deploy paths
We list every way code and configuration currently reach a cluster, including scripts, consoles and manual steps, and mark which ones cause drift.
- 02
Model environments as overlays
Base manifests plus per-environment overlays for staging, production and any short-lived environments, so differences are explicit and reviewable.
- 03
Wire the reconciler
Install and harden ArgoCD or Flux, connect it to your repository, and configure sync policies, health checks and notification targets for failed reconciliations.
- 04
Rehearse rollout and rollback
We run a real progressive release and a real rollback in front of your team, then hand over the runbook and the alert routing.
Questions
Asked before we start
Is GitOps only for Kubernetes?
It is most mature there, and that is where ArgoCD and Flux do their best work. You can apply the same pattern to Terraform with Atlantis or to virtual machines with a config manager, but the reconciliation loop is slower and less convincing outside a cluster.
What stops a developer from committing straight to production?
Branch protection plus a sync policy that only reconciles the main branch, with production promoting through an approved pull request. ArgoCD can also require a manual sync for sensitive environments, though most teams find that friction outweighs the safety once the review process is trusted.
How does this differ from the CI/CD work you do?
CI/CD covers the build, test and artifact stage that produces a version. GitOps picks up from there, deciding what that version should look like in each environment and keeping the cluster aligned with that decision. Most teams need both, and they share a repository.
Can we keep our existing Helm charts?
Yes, and we usually start there. Charts are rendered or used directly by the reconciler; we may add Kustomize overlays around them for environment-specific values. The migration is a change of delivery mechanism, not a rewrite of everything you have written.
Delivery Automation
Often needed alongside this
Delivery Automation
CI/CD Pipeline Engineering
Automated build, test and deploy pipelines that turn every commit into a repeatable, auditable release.
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins & Azure Pipelines
- Parallel builds, caching and artifact promotion
- Quality gates, approvals and rollback on failure
Platform & Containers
Kubernetes & Containers
Production-grade clusters with sane defaults, safe rollouts and an operator experience your team will actually enjoy.
- EKS, AKS, GKE and self-managed clusters
- Helm, Kustomize and GitOps-driven deployments
- Node autoscaling, resource tuning and cost control
Delivery Automation
Release Management & Change Control
Predictable, traceable releases with the audit trail your compliance team keeps asking for.
- Versioning, changelogs and release notes automation
- Change approval workflows without the red tape
- Who-shipped-what audit history
Worth a conversation about GitOps & Release Management?
Bring the specific problem. We will tell you honestly whether this is the service that fixes it, and what it would take.