software agent
A program running in or beside a runtime that pulls the desired state and reconciles the system to it.
In more detail
Argo CD and Flux controllers are software agents. Each holds read access to the state store and acts on its runtime, so no pipeline needs credentials to the cluster.
Related terms
- Pulled Automatically — The third GitOps principle: software agents automatically pull the desired state declarations from the source.
- reconciliation — The repeated check-and-fix loop in which a program compares desired state with observed state and changes the world to match.
Taught in
- A Hotfix At 3 A.M.: Who Wins At 3:05? — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Half The Marks Are Definitions: How The Exam Works — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Staging Is Gone: Desired State, Declarations And The State Store — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Three Edits At 2 A.M.: Drift And Reconciliation — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Sixteen Pods, Room For Twelve: The System, Feedback And Continuous — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Two Ways Back From 2.5: Rollback The GitOps Way — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Terminology Sprint: One Incident, Nine Terms — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Seven Steps Called GitOps: The Declarative Principle — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Someone Cleaned Up The History: Versioned And Immutable — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Twelve Keys To Production: Pulled Automatically — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- An Hour Without Payments: Continuously Reconciled — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Principles Sprint: Six Setups, One Question — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Two Clicks Nobody Wrote Down: Configuration And Infrastructure As Code — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Friday At Five To Five: DevOps And DevSecOps — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- What Does CI Still Do? CI, CD And Where GitOps Starts — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Related Practices Sprint: One Change, Five Practices — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Thursday, With A Way Back: Promotion, Deploy And Release — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Friday, Four Fifty: Progressive Delivery — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Three Minutes Of Waiting: Pull Versus Event-Driven — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Three Regions By Spring: GitOps Architecture — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Patterns Sprint: Eight Needs, One Pattern Each — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Three Teams, Three Formats: Manifests And Packaging — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- A Bucket Nobody Wrote Down: State Stores Beyond Git — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- A Rollback Nobody Heard: Notifications, Observability And CI — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Tooling Sprint: The CTO's Shopping List — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Forty-Six Of Sixty: The Mock And What It Tells You — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- The Evening Before: Final Review — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep