awesome-kubernetes/v2-docs/gitops.md

Gitops

!!! info "Architectural Context" Detailed reference for Gitops in the context of Engineering Pipeline.

Application Delivery

Helm

Alternative Engines

• (2025) Nelm: A Helm Alternative for Kubernetes Deployments ⭐ 1072 [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — An innovative deployment engine integrated within the Werf workflow that functions as an alternative to native Helm release tracking. It resolves Helm's tracking limitations by ensuring strict live cluster validation and resource health monitoring.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Components

• (2024) AWS EKS Argo CD Terraform Component 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight: Enterprise-ready Terraform submodule designed to deploy, configure, and bootstrap Argo CD onto an existing AWS EKS cluster. Live Grounding: Standardizes complex security configuration flags, integrates smoothly with AWS IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA), and provisions preconfigured Helm-based releases.

Infrastructure

GitOps

Cluster Provisioning

• (2022) Weave Kubernetes System Control - wksctl ⭐ 389 [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟 [LEGACY] — An early GitOps-driven Kubernetes cluster manager from Weaveworks that provisioned clusters from a declared state stored in git. Following Weaveworks' operational shutdown, this project is considered legacy but remains highly influential in GitOps control-loop architecture history.

Networking

Container Network Interface

CNI Plugins

• (2024) github: Weave Net - Weaving Containers into Applications ⭐ 6613 [EN CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] [LEGACY] — Weave Net is a resilient container CNI designed to create peer-to-peer overlay networks without external databases or configurations. The project was officially archived by Weaveworks in 2024, prompting teams to migrate to more modern CNI plugins like Cilium and Calico.

---

💡 Explore Related: Cicd | Jenkins Alternatives | Jenkins