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What are the benefits of GitOps over traditional deployment approaches?

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GitOps gives a single source of truth, full audit trail via Git history, easy rollback (revert a commit), consistent reproducible environments, faster and safer deployments through PR review, self-healing against drift, and improved security by keeping credentials in-cluster. It also aligns operations with familiar developer workflows.
Real-world example After a bad release, the team rolls back simply by reverting the Git commit, and ArgoCD restores the previous state.

Common follow-ups: How does GitOps improve auditability? | How is rollback done?

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