GitOps Promotion Tools: Why You Need to Add Them to Your GitOps Toolkit in 2025! - Engin Diri

This talk focuses on GitOps as an effective strategy for managing infrastructure and applications in a cloud-native environment. The speaker discusses the limitations of current GitOps practices in promoting desired states across different environments, highlighting the inefficient methods many companies use to enhance their CI pipelines. Engin Diri introduces three GitOps Promotion Tools: Kargo, GitOps Promoter, and Telefonistka, detailing their functionalities, advantages, and disadvantages, while also exploring the emerging concept of rendered manifests and its impact on the promotion process. With over 15 years in the IT industry, Engin Diri combines his experience as a Senior Solutions Architect at Pulumi to offer valuable insights into integrating these tools into GitOps workflows.