GitOps is where everything, including infrastructure, is maintained in Git and controlled via a combination of Pull Requests and CI/CD pipelines. Reduce the learning curve for new devs by providing a familiar, repeatable process. Use Code Reviews to catch bugs and increase operational competency. Provide transparency to the rest of the team with Pull Requests. This presentation had a live demo of using Atlantis with Terraformthat showed how to easily add and remove users from AWS IAM safely & securely using simply GitHub Pull Requests.

Erik Osterman is the founder of Cloud Posse, a DevOps professional services company that specializes in cloud migrations and release engineering. Previously he was the Director of Cloud Architecture, for CBS Interactive where he led cloud strategy across the organization.