CGOA Gitops Principles Practice Question
An administrator notices that an engineer manually modified a Service loadBalancerIP in the Kubernetes live cluster using 'kubectl edit'. The cluster is managed by an automated GitOps engine configured in a pull-based model. What will happen during the next reconciliation cycle?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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The GitOps engine will detect the drift and overwrite the live cluster state to match the declared state in Git.
In a pull-based GitOps pattern, an agent running inside the cluster continuously monitors both the declared state in Git and the actual state in the cluster. When drift is detected, the controller overwrites the live state with the desired state defined in Git.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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The GitOps engine will automatically commit the updated loadBalancerIP back to the Git repository to keep Git in sync.
Why it's wrong here
GitOps engines do not push runtime cluster changes back to Git unless specifically configured with write-back image automation, which does not apply to ad-hoc kubectl edits.
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The live cluster modification will block future Git commits from being fetched by the GitOps agent.
Why it's wrong here
Cluster state drift does not impact the read access of the GitOps controller to the upstream Git repository.
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The GitOps engine will detect the drift and overwrite the live cluster state to match the declared state in Git.
Why this is correct
Continuous drift correction enforces the state in Git over any out-of-band manual changes made to the cluster.
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The GitOps engine will halt reconciliation permanently until an administrator manually clears the cluster error log.
Why it's wrong here
Drift detection does not crash or permanently halt the reconciliation loop; it active corrects it or alerts based on policy.
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