GitOps Automation

Infrastructure that deploys itself reliably

Eliminate manual deployments, configuration drift, and high-risk database rollbacks. We transform your Git repository into the single source of truth, returning complete operational control and auditability to your engineering teams.

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Automation scales your infrastructure, not headcount

Modern platform delivery doesn’t stall because of a lack of engineering talent. It stalls due to a reliance on legacy, manual deployment pipelines. By introducing GitOps structures, every infrastructure change is versioned as code, automatically reviewed, and rolled out without manual intervention. This approach leads directly to shorter release cycles, higher environment stability, and an immutable audit trail that satisfies enterprise compliance frameworks naturally.

When code and infrastructure share the exact same deployment principles, your operational risk drops to near zero. We help you move away from black-box environments toward a completely declarative architecture. The result is a highly predictable deployment lifecycle where your engineers focus on developing core platform features rather than manually patching cluster drift.

The hidden operational drain of non-declarative systems

What’s draining your productivity

Every platform engineer knows the scenario where an unrecorded manual change is made directly on a cluster during an incident. Within weeks, the actual state of production becomes entirely unknown. Traditional rollbacks turn into high-risk guesswork, environment drift between staging and production hides critical bugs until they hit live users, and compliance audits stall due to missing change records. Teams routinely lose up to 30% of their operational capacity to basic coordination, creating frustrated engineering departments.

Git as the single source of truth

GitOps resolves this complexity through a fundamental shift in platform design. Instead of human operators directly modifying cloud resources, a Git commit describes the exact desired target state. A continuously running reconciliation loop automatically detects any structural deviation and immediately restores the declared cluster configuration. Every single change passes through the identical pull request process as your application code, including peer reviews, automated tests, and strict approval gates.

Reconcile your target state automatically

We completely eliminate configuration drift by deploying automated synchronisation loops. Your repository becomes the definitive blueprint of your reality, ensuring that unauthorised local cluster modifications are automatically detected, flagged and instantly reversed.

The Challenge

The three bottlenecks blocking continuous deployment

Traditional infrastructure delivery patterns create structural friction that limits your engineering velocity.

Environment drift & inconsistent deployments

When infrastructure components are managed across separate consoles and manual scripts, consistency across dev, staging, and production becomes impossible. Bugs remain invisible until live traffic exposes them.

Slow, high-risk operational release windows

Manual approvals, unverified code interventions, and a lack of deployment automation stretch release timelines from minutes into days. Every major deployment turns into a stressful event that requires all-night monitoring.

Lack of infrastructure visibility and audit compliance

Without an automated change history, preparing for security audits requires days of manual log digging. The absence of a centralised audit trail makes internal compliance verification a massive operational burden.

Declarative platforms don’t happen by accident

Moving to GitOps requires more than installing a new tool. It demands an enterprise-grade repository structure, secret management that works and an engineering team trained to think in pull requests. We provide the complete framework to get you there safely.

Our Solution

Production-proven GitOps architectures

We do not implement GitOps strictly by the textbook. Our engineering approach begins with an objective assessment of your existing CI/CD landscape to build a transition strategy that keeps your live production systems entirely safe. We bring certified Kubernetes expertise alongside expertise in the most used GitOps tools (i.e. Argo CD, GitLab CI, Flux CD, etc.) into your team, providing practical experience from complex, air-gapped, and highly regulated enterprise environments that comply fully with ISO 27001.

How GitOps works under the hood

Architecture: Pull-based reconciliation loops

Unlike traditional push-based pipelines, our GitOps designs operate on a highly secure pull principle. An operator running natively inside your cluster continuously monitors the Git repository. The moment a commit updates the declared target state, the operator calculates the differential and reconciles the environment automatically. Unauthorised or accidental direct modifications to the live cluster are immediately detected and overwritten.

Declarative state management & secrets

Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts and Kustomize overlays define your entire infrastructure layer declaratively. Sensitive secrets are securely handled via external management systems like HashiCorp Vault or Sealed Secrets, ensuring they never sit in plaintext within your repository. Multi-cluster scenarios are orchestrated through efficient fleet concepts, allowing automated container image updates to safely trigger approval-gated rollouts without manual human intervention.

Technical Advantages

What GitOps changes in practice

Three operational shifts that show up quickly after a GitOps architecture is in place:

Faster recovery, every time

When the full infrastructure state lives in Git, recovery means reverting a commit, not rebuilding from memory. Mean time to resolution drops because the path back to a known good state is always one step away.

Deployments that ship

Changes move through a tested pipeline instead of a change window. Deployment frequency rises because each change is small, reviewed, and reversible, not a high-risk manual operation.

Drift that cannot hide


The GitOps operator continuously compares the declared state in Git against the running configuration. Any deviation surfaces immediately, before it causes an incident, not after.

Business Benefits

What your organisation walks away with

Four outcomes that hold across environments, teams and compliance audits:

Auditable by default

Every infrastructure change is tied to a commit, an author, and a timestamp. Compliance reports are generated automatically, with no manual documentation step required.

Rollback in under two minutes

Reverting a Git commit triggers a full rollout of the previous state. No downtime scripts, no manual steps, no coordination across teams required.

Developer experience that scales

Teams work with familiar Git workflows from day one. No onboarding into proprietary tooling, no parallel processes for network changes, productive immediately.

Consistency across every environment

Dev, staging and production run on identically declared states. Configuration gaps between environments stop being a source of incidents.

Your partner of choice

The credentials are verifiable, the experience is production-proven

GitOps is not a methodology evoila applies from the outside. It is how evoila engineers work.

Certified Kubestronauts

evoila’s team includes certified Kubestronauts, the highest recognition awarded by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, held by fewer than 1,000 engineers worldwide. The certification is verifiable, not claimed.

Built on the CNCF baseline

GitOps is the foundational layer of every internal developer platform evoila builds. Not an option added later. The baseline from day one.

Platform Engineering Ambassadors

evoila engineers hold the Platform Engineering Ambassador designation from the CNCF. That means direct access to the ecosystem, early visibility into tooling developments, and a seat in the conversations that shape the standards.

Our Offering: VCF-Adoption: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

GitOps for both developers and platform operators

GitOps uses Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application delivery. Platform operators gain consistency and control. Developers get code-driven deployments without learning a new interface. evoila builds this baseline on three components.

Git as source of truth

Git holds the declared state of your infrastructure. evoila defines Git workflows, feature-branch or trunk-based, to match your team’s structure and trigger CI/CD pipelines automatically. The result is an infrastructure that is reproducible, auditable, and immutable by design.

ArgoCD for continuous delivery

ArgoCD is the industry-standard declarative GitOps engine for Kubernetes. evoila uses it to automate deployment of both VKS clusters and the applications running on them. Configuration depth scales with your requirements, from a single cluster to a multi-team platform with environment-specific promotion logic.

Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management

Cluster deployment, updates and lifecycle management run through 
the gitops automation tool. Applications and services are deployed on Kubernetes the same way across development teams and platform 
operators, with consistency enforced by the declared state, not by manual coordination. 

Technologies & Partners

The tools we work with

evoila implements GitOps on the toolchain that fits your environment, not on a preferred stack. The ones below cover the full range of what production GitOps requires.

GitOps & CD Engines

  • ArgoCD
  • FluxCD

Platform partners

  • VMware by Broadcom
  • GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab Runner
  • TeamCity
  • Harness
  • ConcourseCI

Your deployment process could look different tomorrow

GitOps is the current standard of modern platform teams. The tooling exists, the methodology is proven, and evoila has the certified engineers to put it in place. Most organisations are closer to a working GitOps baseline than they think.

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Evaluating your broader platform engineering roadmap?

If your question spans the full platform engineering stack, Kubernetes, CI/CD, internal developer platforms, or VCF automation, our Cloud Native team can help you find the right starting point. Just send us a short request.

Marco Di Martino

Marco Di Martino

Business Unit Lead – Cloud Native

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