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# GitOps Articles | Ankra Blog

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16 articles on GitOps from the Ankra blog: practical guides on Kubernetes, GitOps, and platform engineering.

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# GitOps

16 articles tagged with GitOps.

[Kubernetes](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/kubernetes)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)  [Homelab](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/homelab)

[## Kubernetes the Hard Way, Part 6: GitOps by Hand, a Reconcile Loop With Git and kubectl](https://ankra.ai/blog/kubernetes-the-hard-way-gitops)

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.

[Mattias Åsell](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mattias-asell)

October 25, 2026

8 min read

[Platform Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/platform-engineering)  [Kubernetes](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/kubernetes)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)

[## Ship to Kubernetes Without Tickets, Not Guardrails](https://ankra.ai/blog/ship-to-kubernetes-without-tickets)

Learn how to ship to Kubernetes without tickets using GitOps, standard templates, scoped access, and deployment workflows that preserve production control.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

October 24, 2026

8 min read

[Comparisons](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/comparisons)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)  [Kubernetes](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/kubernetes)

[## Argo CD Alternatives in 2026: GitOps Platforms with a Proper UI](https://ankra.ai/blog/argo-cd-alternatives-gitops-platforms-2026)

Flux with a web UI, Akuity, Harness, Octopus, Rancher Fleet, Devtron and Ankra compared, plus when plain Argo CD is still the right call.

[Mattias Åsell](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mattias-asell)

October 15, 2026

14 min read

[AI](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ai)  [Kubernetes](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/kubernetes)  [Platform Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/platform-engineering)

[## Build a Fleet of AI Agents on UpCloud Kubernetes](https://ankra.ai/blog/ai-agent-fleet-on-upcloud-kubernetes)

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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

August 18, 2026

14 min read

[Comparisons](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/comparisons)  [Platform Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/platform-engineering)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)

[## Kubermatic vs Ankra: Do You Want to Run a Kubernetes Factory, or Just Ship Software?](https://ankra.ai/blog/kubermatic-vs-ankra)

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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

July 9, 2026

10 min read

[Security](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/security)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)  [Kubernetes](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/kubernetes)

[## The Kubernetes Security Work That Actually Matters in 2026](https://ankra.ai/blog/kubernetes-security-that-actually-matters)

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.

[Mattias Åsell](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mattias-asell)

July 4, 2026

9 min read

[Security](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/security)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)  [Kubernetes](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/kubernetes)

[## How to Manage GitOps Secrets Without Plaintext in Git](https://ankra.ai/blog/gitops-secrets-sops-age)

Manage GitOps secrets by encrypting each value with SOPS and AGE before it reaches Git. Only ciphertext is committed and decrypted at deploy time.

[Mattias Åsell](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mattias-asell)

July 2, 2026

10 min read

[Comparisons](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/comparisons)  [Edge Computing](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/edge-computing)  [AI](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ai)

[## Spectro Cloud vs Ankra: Managing the Metal, or Running What Lives On It?](https://ankra.ai/blog/spectro-cloud-vs-ankra)

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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

June 29, 2026

11 min read

[Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/engineering)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)  [Platform Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/platform-engineering)

[## GitOps Without ArgoCD: Inside Ankra's Native Deployment Engine](https://ankra.ai/blog/native-deployment-engine)

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.

[Mattias Åsell](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mattias-asell)

June 26, 2026

8 min read

[AI](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ai)  [CI/CD](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ci-cd)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)

[## Building Pipeline Agents with the Ankra CLI](https://ankra.ai/blog/building-pipeline-agents-with-ankra-cli)

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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

June 10, 2026

9 min read

[AI](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ai)  [Developer Experience](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/developer-experience)  [Platform Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/platform-engineering)

[## Using Cursor with the Ankra CLI as an Infrastructure Subagent](https://ankra.ai/blog/cursor-ankra-ai-subagent)

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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

May 21, 2026

4 min read

[AI](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ai)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)  [Platform Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/platform-engineering)

[## Drafts, Approvals, GitOps: Letting an AI Build Production Without Breaking It](https://ankra.ai/blog/drafts-approvals-gitops)

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.

[Mattias Åsell](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mattias-asell)

May 6, 2026

9 min read

[Comparisons](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/comparisons)  [AI](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ai)  [Platform Engineering](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/platform-engineering)

[## Komodor vs Ankra: Observe Your Kubernetes, or Operate It?](https://ankra.ai/blog/komodor-vs-ankra)

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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

April 17, 2026

17 min read

[Stacks](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/stacks)  [Developer Experience](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/developer-experience)  [CI/CD](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ci-cd)

[## How a 5-Person Team Cloned Production for Local Dev and Never Looked Back](https://ankra.ai/blog/clone-production-environments-with-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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

March 22, 2026

13 min read

[Edge Computing](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/edge-computing)  [AI](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ai)  [CI/CD](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ci-cd)

[## Kubernetes on the Edge: One Platform to Rule Them All](https://ankra.ai/blog/kubernetes-on-the-edge)

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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

March 5, 2026

7 min read

[Stacks](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/stacks)  [CI/CD](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/ci-cd)  [GitOps](https://ankra.ai/blog/tag/gitops)

[## Delivery that understands your stack](https://ankra.ai/blog/delivery-simplified-with-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.

[Mark Shine](https://ankra.ai/blog/author/mark-shine)

August 11, 2025

5 min read