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Start Gitops Patterns PracticeYou are managing environment promotion by overlaying Kustomize patches for 'prod', 'staging', and 'dev'. Which TWO of the following practices follow the GitOps principle of 'single source of truth' for environment configuration?
Explanation: Separation of base and overlays ensures that the base configuration is shared, while environment-specific differences are isolated.
You are implementing the App-of-Apps pattern using Argo CD. You have a root Application that points to a Helm chart containing multiple sub-Application manifests. When you update the source Git repository, some sub-applications remain in an 'OutOfSync' state while others update successfully. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The App-of-Apps pattern relies on the Argo CD controller to process the root application first. If the sub-applications are not being pruned or updated, it is often due to the 'self-heal' or 'prune' policy being disabled in the Application resource definition for the child applications.
When using the 'Git-generator' in ApplicationSet, you want to include only a subset of directories based on a specific file content. Which feature of ApplicationSet allows you to filter the directories discovered?
Explanation: The 'template.path' field combined with 'files' or 'directories' generators allows for granular control over which paths are included, and you can use the 'paths' field to specify glob patterns.
You are implementing progressive delivery using Flagger. After a Canary resource is defined, which metric is most critical for Flagger to automatically rollback a deployment during a blue/green shift?
Explanation: Flagger uses analysis templates to evaluate Prometheus metrics; if the error rate or latency thresholds are exceeded, it triggers a rollback.
In a multi-cluster GitOps architecture using Argo CD, how do you manage credentials for a remote cluster that is not the cluster where Argo CD resides?
Explanation: You must add the remote cluster's API server and authentication credentials to Argo CD using the 'argocd cluster add' command, which stores the secret in the Argo CD namespace.
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