CGOA Related Practices Practice Question
Your team is integrating a CI pipeline with a GitOps delivery model. Which of the following tasks should remain in the CI pipeline, and which should be moved to the CD/GitOps reconciliation process?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Container image building and unit testing remain in CI, while manifest deployment to the cluster moves to GitOps.
CI handles build and test; CD (GitOps) handles reconciliation and deployment.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Everything, including image building and deployment, must be handled by the GitOps controller.
Why it's wrong here
GitOps controllers do not perform image building; they rely on artifacts already existing in a registry.
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The CI pipeline should perform the final deployment to ensure the pipeline status is correctly reported.
Why it's wrong here
GitOps decouples deployment from the CI pipeline to maintain a clean separation of concerns.
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Container image building and unit testing remain in CI, while manifest deployment to the cluster moves to GitOps.
Why this is correct
CI focuses on artifact creation and verification, while GitOps focuses on state reconciliation in the target cluster.
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Container image building moves to GitOps, while manifest deployment remains in the CI pipeline.
Why it's wrong here
GitOps is not designed to handle image building, which is a build-time activity.
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