GitOps has emerged to become the new standard methodology for developers building cloud-native applications. With GitOps, developers gain a streamlined, standardized workflow for configuring, monitoring, managing and updating Kubernetes and all the applications deployed on it, even in hybrid cloud environments.

Weaveworks is an AWS Certified Advanced Partner that built eksctl. Founded in 2014, Weaveworks makes it fast and simple for developers and DevOps teams to build and operate powerful containerized applications. Weaveworks minimizes the complexity of operating workloads in Kubernetes by providing automated continuous delivery pipelines, observability and monitoring.

In this session, Leo Murillo, Principal Solutions Architect at Weaveworks, and Zohaib Khawaja, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, demonstrate why GitOps is a standardized workflow to deploy, configure, monitor, update and manage Kubernetes, its components and all the applications that run on it.

In this workshop, we will teach and demonstrate:

• The four principles of GitOps
• How to boost stability and reliability in Kubernetes environments
• How to incorporate a robust security model from the start
• Using GitOps for high availability and disaster recovery on EKS
• Managing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) for Kubernetes on EKS with GitOps
• Accelerating software development with GitOps and EKS
• Managing machine learning and artificial intelligence models with GitOps on EKS

Workshop pre-requisites:
To start the workshop, you will need an AWS account. To complete these workshop modules, you will first need to install eksctl. Instructions for doing this can be found at eksctl.io. eksctl (pronounced “eks control”) is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS. It is written in Go, uses CloudFormation, was created by Weaveworks and it welcomes contributions from the community.

*If you are using your own AWS account, you will need permissions to create EKS clusters plus admin rights within your EKS cluster to configure configuration rules and install agents. Ensure you have authority within your organization to do this in your tenant.