GitOps for Everything with Pluggable PipeCD

KubeCon EU 2025 - TAG App Delivery Booth LT

The Idea Discussion: https://github.com/pipe-cd/pipecd/discussions/5519

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1. GitOps for Everything with Pluggable PipeCD 2025-04-03 KubeCon EU 2025 - TAG App Delivery Booth LT Tetsuya Kikuchi (@t-kikuc)
2. Tetsuya Kikuchi (@t-kikuc) Working at CyberAgent, Inc., Japan Maintainer of PipeCD Interested in: DevOps, Progressive Delivery Me 2/20
3. GitOps Today How will PipeCD change the GitOps Agenda 3/20
4. 1. GitOps Today 4/20
5. Git-centric management of infrastructure and apps Principles i. Declarative ii. Versioned and Immutable iii. Pulled Automatically iv. Continuously Reconciled https://opengitops.dev/about What is GitOps? 5/20
6. Developer & Operational Productivity Developer Experience Stability Reliability Consistency and Standardization Security Guarantees Advantages of GitOps 6/20
7. Kubernetes-centric approach what about outside of Kubernetes like cloud services? Mainly focusing on "Infrastructure" and "Apps" what about DB operation, ML model management, etc.? GitOps is not ubiquitous yet 7/20
8. Do you want GitOps for others?? 8/20
9. PipeCD will do it! 9/20
10. 2. How Will New Pluggable PipeCD Serve GitOps for Everything? 10/20
11. Open-source Continuous Delivery platform CNCF Sandbox Project since 2023 GitOps style Progressive Delivery Built for Multi-cloud, Multi-tenancy, Multi-organization Currently available for Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Run, ECS, Lambda What is PipeCD? 11/20
12. Separate the responsibility of the core and platform-specific logic Anyone can develop a plugin independently PipeCD is going to become pluggable 12/20
13. A plugin works as a gRPC server How a plugin work? 13/20
14. Cloud services Azure Functions Cloudflare Workers IaC OpenTofu AWS CDK / CloudFormation Other than "Infrastructure" or "Apps" DB Schema (by sqldef etc.) Feature Flags Examples 14/20
15. https://github.com/pipe-cd/pipecd/discussions/5519 Any idea?? Go to the Discussion 15/20
16. Let's make cross-project collaborations!! 16/20
17. Conclusion 17/20
18. Pluggable PipeCD will serve GitOps for everything including IaC, cloud services, DB, etc. PipeCD will be more unified platform Summary 18/20
19. What should GitOps in the AI Era be like? What should Progressive Delivery in the AI Era be like? Let's Discuss 19/20
20. Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 12:15 BST Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 17 We will host a Contribfest 20/20