Red Hat Ad- vanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes [2.9]. OCM has its roots in IBM Multicloud Manager. The tool goes beyond just applying YAML and detecting drift: It also manages the lifecycle of your framework for patching–or selectively altering–files, built into Kuber- netes. It is a configuation manager that lets you customize untemplated YAML files without touching the original YAML configuration basis of most structures and examples in this chapter. Helm Helm has become the de facto package manager for Kubernetes. If you’ve worked on a Kubernetes cluster previously, there is a good chance that

1 Continuous Delivery and GitOps on OpenShift Christian Hernandez Technical Marketing Manager DevOps is the key to meet the insatiable demand for delivering quality applications rapidly 2 Continuous GitOps workflows for application delivery using Argo CD and Tekton with GitOps Application Manager CLI Powered by 28 Sync Monitor Detect drift Take action Argo CD ● Cluster and application service configurations into into the OpenShift cluster OPENSHIFT GITOPS 30 GitOps Application Manager CLI ● Bootstraps Git repos for GitOps ● Configures deployment environments ● Configures webhooks

Great for enterprise teams, not as good for independent applications Kubernetes focused package manager based on templates Templates enable prescribed customization, more difficult to customize outside support in OpenShift ● Quality indicators in Tekton Hub Product Manager: Siamak Sadeghianfar 29 Argo CD on OpenShift Product Manager: Siamak Sadeghianfar ● Declarative GitOps operator for continuous

requirement. Nowadays, it is viewed as the de facto package manager for the Kubernetes ecosystem. It acts just like APT/YUM/RPM packet manager but for Kubernetes. It runs on the concept of Helm Charts

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kind of organization, from every industry, across every part of the world. Mae Large, Architecture Manager at State Farm says that taking a platform approach is about enabling every product team to deploy

is scanned for changes. GitOps and Helm do not always work well together Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes and is typically seen as the de-facto standard for deploying 3rd party applications