What nobody tells you about GitOps when it meets the real world

GitOps looks clean on a whiteboard. In practice, it comes with edge cases, opinions, and the kind of questions that don't have neat answers in the documentation. On 16 September, John Dietz and M R Rishi open the floor to the GitOps conversations that usually only happen in Slack threads and post-incident reviews: secrets management across clusters, drift between what's in Git and what's actually running, pipeline failures that make sense to nobody, and what "single source of truth" really means when three teams have three different definitions. This is a discussion session, not a demo. Bring your questions and your most frustrating GitOps war stories.

If you're already running GitOps in production and hitting the friction that nobody warned you about, this is the session that fills in the gaps. There's no slide deck to sit through, just a frank conversation about the parts of GitOps that are genuinely hard, with people who've seen them up close.