Bret is joined by Dan Garfield of CodeFresh to talk about growth of GitOps as a standard, growth of Argo, and more. 💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at Veritas!💥Have you thought about the potential risks to your Kubernetes cluster in this era of sophisticated ransomware? Veritas offers unparalleled resilience for stateful Kubernetes applications, providing high availability and robust data protection. Learn how to fortify your business-critical applications with Veritas at https://vrt.as/kubernetes.Dan is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. He helped launch the GitOps Working Group and helped lead the creation of the Open GitOps principles. As an Argo Maintainer, Kubernaut, Google Developer Expert, he helps companies and individuals adopt Argo with GitOps and streamline their CI/CD. We take some great questions about how GitOps is different than just triggering deployments and other automation platforms. And we also dig into the four principles of GitOps and how Codefresh uses Argo CD as a part of their CI/CD offering. Live recording of the complete show from July 27, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #227). Includes demos. ★Topics★CodefreshGitOps CertificationOpenGitOpsArgo CDArgo CD Autopilot Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Dan Garfield - Guest (00:00) - Intro (09:16) - GitOps Guide and Principles (15:54) - What if you don't have Kubernetes? (23:08) - Reusability and Modern Automation (27:31) - ArgoCD Portability (33:04) - Why use GitOps? (41:44) - GitOps Certification with Focus on Argo (44:07) - GitHub Flow or Trunk-based Development (57:00) - Combining Dagger with Argo (58:56) - Deploying Argo CD (59:28) - Argo with local Git repo branch You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news! Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com