Rules for GitOps - Part 1

I’ve recently been involved in two major efforts to retool developer / operations at large cloud companies, and as such I’ve had a front row seat to the incredibly fast progression from development automation to now Infrastructure as Code and GitOps. The changes have been so fast and furious, that in all honesty, I’m not sure I could really articulate what GitOps is. Sure, if you google around you find articles and solutions to run some infrastructure on kubernetes, but that can’t really be the crux of GitOps, right?