KCNA Cloud Native Application Delivery Practice Question
A DevOps team wants to implement GitOps for their Kubernetes cluster. Which tool is specifically designed for Kubernetes GitOps and can automatically sync the cluster state with a Git repository?
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ArgoCD
ArgoCD is a GitOps tool specifically designed for Kubernetes. It continuously monitors a Git repository and automatically syncs the cluster state to match the desired state. Helm (option D) is a package manager. Kustomize (option C) is a configuration management tool. Jenkins (option B) is a CI/CD tool but not GitOps-native. Therefore, ArgoCD (option A) is the correct answer.
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GitOps
GitOps is a way to manage and automate cloud infrastructure and applications by using a Git repository as the single source of truth, where all changes are made through pull requests and automatically applied by a software agent.
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ReplicaSet and Replication
A ReplicaSet ensures a specified number of identical pod instances are running at all times in Kubernetes, using replication to maintain availability and stability.
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