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GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes

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Re: GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes

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Post by hhh »

Spivak wrote: post #3

Highly recommend ansible-pull [1] as well for this job. Not because Ansible is amazing or anything but because every use-case you can think of likely already has a module. [1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm...

I've been using ansible-pull for like 3-5(?) years now, and it's been pretty awesome. We use it to do bare-metal device management.

Re: GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes

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Post by starttoaster »

It's not clear to me what Kubernetes has to do with this project at all. GitOps isn't really synonymous with Kubernetes anyway, so this comes across as throwing the word Kubernetes into something for recognition potentially? But mentioning Kubernetes and conflating GitOps with Kubernetes has me more confused on what this actually solves for me.

Seems like the ArgoCD of non-containerized deployments. Which, ArgoCD has something to do with Kubernetes. So I guess I can sort of link in my head the thought process in branding here. But that requires me to know about ArgoCD and similar continuous deployment tools and link that in between GitOpper, GitOps, and Kubernetes somewhere. A bit too much mental gymnastics for the target audience: someone that doesn't use Kubernetes anyway.

In my opinion, consider changing your branding to something like "GitOps-style continuous deployments to non-containerized environments." A bit less show-y but at least that's more decipherable, just in my opinion.

Re: GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes

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Post by danmur »

starttoaster wrote: post #6

It's not clear to me what Kubernetes has to do with this project at all. GitOps isn't really synonymous with Kubernetes anyway, so this comes across as throwing the word Kubernetes into something for recognition potentially? But mentioning Kubernetes and conflating GitOps with Kubernetes has me more confused on what this actually solves for me. Seems like the ArgoCD of non-containerized deployments. Which, ArgoCD has…

I found this odd too. It reminded me of a book I read ages ago, sci-fi fantasy where there is a species that is very long-lived but they have a finite memory. Maybe if your memory is a year or two long then GitOps would seem to mean k8s deployments automatically out of git, rather than all the other things.

(I think it was by C.S Friedman but I don't remember which one)

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