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Gitops: case studies over time

21 case studies across 14 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "gitops"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Adobe, Branch Metrics, CERN, Fidelity Investments, Flox, G-Research, Intuit, Kubernetes, Mi..., Production, Spotify

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)

Kubernetes and The GitOps Face-Off - Ricardo Aravena & Javeria Khan, Branch Metrics — Branch Metrics

Branch Metrics compares GitOps approaches on Kubernetes based on its own experience.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)

From Snowflake Servers to Snowflake Clusters - The GitOps Journey - Allison Richardet

Peribolos: How Kubernetes Uses GitOps to Manage GitHub Communities at Scale - Christoph Blecker — Kubernetes

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)

Managing Helm Deployments with Gitops at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN — CERN

Fidelity’s Move to “Finance Grade” Kubernetes with... Alexis Richardson & Rajarajan Pudupatti SJ — Fidelity Investments

Fidelity describes moving to finance-grade Kubernetes operated with GitOps practices.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual

Where's My Container? Visualizing the GitOps Container Journey at Mi... Andre Briggs & Samiya Akhtar — Mi...

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual

The Building Blocks of DX: K8s Evolution From CLI to GitOps - Katie Gamanji

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

Automated Progressive Delivery Using GitOps and Service Mesh - Yasen Simeonov & Henrik Blixt, Intuit — Intuit

Intuit shows how it automates progressive delivery with GitOps and a service mesh.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

How Intuit Manages Cloud Resources Via GitOps - Jerome Kuptz & Ameen Radwan, Intuit — Intuit

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

How We Migrated Over 1000 Services to Backstage Using GitOps and Survived to... - Shmaram & Mansoor

The speakers describe migrating over 1000 services to Backstage using GitOps and the lessons learned.

Tips from the Trenches: GitOps at Adobe - Larisa Andreea Danaila & Ionut-Maxim Margelatu, Adobe — Adobe

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023

Everything Is Code: Embracing GitOps at Spotify - Tim Hansen, Spotify — Spotify

Software Delivery in Regulated Environments: Critical Infrastructure... Austen Bryan & Steven Ollek

Speakers share experience delivering software in regulated, critical-infrastructure environments.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

GitOps Continuous Delivery at Scale with Flux - Stefan Prodan

From Bash Scripts to Kubeflow and GitOps: Our Journey to Operationalizing ML at Scale

How We Are Moving from GitOps to Kubernetes Resource Model in 5G Core

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City

GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Leigh Capili, Flox & Priyanka Ravi, G-Research — Production, Flox, G-Research

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

One Dozen To One Thousand Clusters: How Argo Kept up as We Scaled - Jérémy Albuixech & Kahou Lei

Speakers describe how their Argo CD setup scaled from a dozen to a thousand clusters.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

From “No Time for GitOps” to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux... Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei

From GitOps to AIOps: Evolving RBI's Kubernetes Platform with Cross... Gabor Horvath & Ewald Überall

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison

Speakers share patterns and lessons from scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes with Cluster API, arguing against starting with hundreds of clusters.

  • ▶ 16:06 … We took a slightly unusual hybrid approach with our um GitOps. We We had most of the app and cluster definitions in Helm charts …
  • ▶ 23:23 … Um I haven't gone into a lot of detail on our our GitOps strategy, but what we ended up with was a rather …
  • ▶ 30:40 Uh, then it's done through GitOps again. >> At yeah, at Dedoose we we bootstrapped our um, sort of our top level operations cluster …
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  1. Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison (CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]), cited at 16:06, 23:23, 30:40