Koray Oksay
Koray works at Kubermatic as a Kubernetes Consultant and Trainer, helping companies on their cloud-native journey. Before that, he worked for startups and enterprise companies in the advertising, banking, and telecom industries as a SysAdmin, Application Admin, DevOps Engineer, and SRE for more than 20 years. He is a CNCF and Platform Engineering Ambassador. He organizes the KCD Istanbul and DevOpsDays Istanbul events, as well as other local meetups.
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GitOps promises simplicity, consistency, and automation, but without discipline, it can just as easily invite drift, outages, and operational pain. GitOps is not a "set it and forget it" solution; it's a living, breathing system that requires ongoing maintenance and nurturing over time.
In this talk, you will learn about the pitfalls of not caring about best practices in GitOps through real-world examples and lessons learned. Whether you're new to GitOps or scaling an enterprise platform, this talk will help you spot warning signs early, avoid painful mistakes, and strengthen your GitOps practices with confidence.