asked to share our patterns for practicing GitOps, and to brain-dump the details into meetings, documents, glossaries, and more. We built the GitOps Principles [3] based on knowledge and feedback from establishing interoperability between tools, conformance, and certification through standardized documents and code. OpenGitOps is currently a sandbox project within the CNCF. In October 2021, the GitOps [1.8] https://www.cncf.io [1.9] https://opengitops.dev [1.10] https://github.com/open-gitops/documents/releases/tag/v1.0.0 [1.11] https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/automation/what-is-yaml [1.12] https://github