2025-04-15 Meetup Links

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Pull Requests that make a DIFFerence

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/devops-cloud-native/events/307026007/

Akuity

• The Rendered Manifest Pattern: https://akuity.io/blog/the-rendered-manifests-pattern

CodeFresh

• Create diff using rendered manifests, but unlike RMF does not use as source for ArgoCD: https://codefresh.io/blog/argo-cd-preview-diff/
• GitOps repository layout. Variants. Promotions based on folders instead of branches: https://codefresh.io/blog/how-to-model-your-gitops-environments-and-promote-releases-between-them/

Tools mentioned:

• https://github.com/zapier/kubechecks
• https://github.com/dag-andersen/argocd-diff-preview

Related blog articles:

• A (not so) Terrible story: https://www.tibobeijen.nl/2024/04/30/terrible-and-ansible-were-already-terrible-in-2016/
• Article on this topic (does not include the GitOps parts): https://www.tibobeijen.nl/2025/01/10/infra-pull-requests-that-make-a-difference/

Existing systems:

• Atlantis (Terraform only): https://www.runatlantis.io/
• AWS Cloudformation Git Sync Pull Request workflows (launched sept. 2024): https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/aws-cloudformation-git-sync-supports-pull-request-workflows/

Me:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tibobeijen/
• https://bsky.app/profile/tibobeijen.nl