Why is GitOps so good?

What happened

I have done my fair share of tinkering. Poking around in servers and fixing things; iterating through and trying different settings until it finally worked; not to mention clicking around in various cloud portals, only to realise I have no idea how I ended up with the deployment I now have in front of me… “At least it works”, some might say and be content, but not me. What if I need to do this again? Or what if some…

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