Topic
16 articles tagged GitOps, newest first.
Kubernetes
Build GitOps from scratch on Kubernetes 1.37. A Git repository, a reconcile loop with kubectl server-side apply and pruning, drift repair, rollback, all tested.
Platform Engineering
Learn how to ship to Kubernetes without tickets using GitOps, standard templates, scoped access, and deployment workflows that preserve production control.
Comparisons
Flux with a web UI, Akuity, Harness, Octopus, Rancher Fleet, Devtron and Ankra compared, plus when plain Argo CD is still the right call.
AI
From an empty UpCloud account to a Kubernetes cluster running a team of AI agents, each with its own personality, chat channel and keys, all building through GitOps.
Comparisons
Kubermatic KKP is an open source factory for manufacturing Kubernetes clusters at density, and you are the one who runs the factory. Ankra is the platform your team does not have to operate. An honest comparison from a fellow European vendor.
Security
Half of all clusters are running an ingress controller that stopped receiving security patches in March. Meanwhile, teams debate service meshes. The five findings that show up in every real cluster security review, each with the incident that proves it and the fix.
Security
Manage GitOps secrets by encrypting each value with SOPS and AGE before it reaches Git. Only ciphertext is committed and decrypted at deploy time.
Comparisons
Spectro Cloud's Palette is a serious enterprise platform for provisioning Kubernetes estates from the OS up. Ankra is an AI-native platform for running everything that happens on Kubernetes from the app down. The honest comparison, including when Palette is the right call.
Engineering
New Ankra clusters no longer run ArgoCD. Here is the engineering story of the native deployment engine: why we built it, how the reconcile loop works, what the migration does to your live resources (nothing), and what we have not finished yet.
AI
A practical guide to wiring an infrastructure agent into your CI: review comments on pull requests, deploy verification on merge, and Slack reports that contain an actual root cause instead of a red X.
AI
Cursor is good at application code but loses context the moment a change crosses into Kubernetes, Helm, and CD pipelines. Adding the Ankra CLI as an infrastructure subagent gives it cluster-aware grounding so developers and platform teams can work on the same artifacts.
AI
AI agents have wiped real production databases this year. Replit's went down during a code freeze, Cursor's took nine seconds via Terraform. Here's how Ankra's draft-first, GitOps-backed AI gives teams a senior DevOps agent without that failure mode.
Comparisons
Komodor's Klaudia is a good AI SRE. Ankra is the next step: an AI that operates the full lifecycle of your apps and infrastructure, runs on any Kubernetes you bring, and keeps Git as the source of truth. Here's the honest comparison.
Stacks
A real walkthrough of using Ankra Stacks to clone production-like infrastructure for local development, on-demand staging, QA review, and client demos. From OrbStack on a laptop to GitHub Actions to production.
Edge Computing
Edge Kubernetes is exploding, but our operational tooling has not kept up. Here is how Ankra delivers a true single pane of glass combining AI-powered troubleshooting, native GitOps, and stack cloning to turn weeks of cluster setup into minutes.
Stacks
Traditional CI is fine. Delivery is where teams still bleed time. Learn how Ankra transforms delivery from a scripting problem to a graph problem, reducing pipeline build time from weeks to hours.
Try it yourself
Connect a repository and a cluster. Ankra builds, deploys and operates it with you.
From something you built to something people use.