Alexis Richardson on Why GitOps is a Game Changer

Semaphore Uncut

In this episode of Semaphore Uncut, Alexis Richardson, CEO and co-founder of Weaveworks, shares insights on how GitOps is reshaping the industry. We talk about why Weaveworks was founded, the problems it solves, and how GitOps best practices emerged from their work. We follow the evolutionary path all the way to the company's new GitOps Toolkit. Alexis also touches on ways one can contribute to the community and ongoing open-source projects.

Prior to Weaveworks, Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ and was also the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) chair at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for three years.

We talked about:

• Weaveworks: minimizing Kubernetes complexity through automation
• The history and essence of GitOps
• The GitOps conversation kit
• The GitOps toolkit
• GitOps Days: call for contributors

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