Redpanda Connect enables the construction of streaming data pipelines through a straightforward YAML configuration, offering over 300 pre-built connectors for data movement and transformation. As organizations scale and pipeline usage increases, transitioning from experimental to operationalized platforms becomes necessary, where GitOps plays a crucial role. By managing Redpanda Connect on Kubernetes declaratively via Git and using tools like Argo CD, organizations can achieve enhanced security, auditability, and efficient deployments. The blog explains deploying Redpanda Connect using GitOps in two modes—Standalone, for isolated and predictable workloads, and Streams, for flexible and multi-tenant environments—by utilizing Helm and Kustomize for dynamic configurations. With GitOps, changes are tracked and synchronized automatically, ensuring a consistent and reproducible setup, while observability is maintained via Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring. This approach reduces manual operations, fosters predictability, and aligns with modern software development practices, paving the way for Redpanda Connect to become a central data platform capability.