GitOps is an operational framework that leverages Git repositories as the single source of truth for managing infrastructure and application configurations, thereby enhancing automation, consistency, and auditability in DevOps practices. The principles of GitOps, as outlined by the Linux Foundation’s OpenGitOps, include managing systems declaratively, ensuring desired states are versioned and immutable, automatically pulling desired states, and continuously reconciling actual system states against them. The integration of GitOps practices allows for a full history of changes, facilitating auditability and governance through branch protection rules and quality checks. This approach extends beyond applications to infrastructure management, using tools like Ansible or Terraform, and has been exemplified by GitHub's open-source identity and access management solution, Entitlements. While GitOps can streamline workflows and reduce manual errors, it requires careful implementation of security and quality assurance measures to maintain integrity and reliability in CI/CD environments.