Lesson 35: Break-It-Friday – Debugging CI/CD and GitOps Pipelines

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Lesson 35 puts GitOps under pressure by breaking production pipelines on purpose and learning how to recover safely. In this session, we recreate real-world GitOps failure scenarios—manual kubectl changes, configuration drift, and conflicting controllers—and trace how ArgoCD detects, reconciles, and sometimes reintroduces failures. You’ll build a complete debugging workflow with drift detection, audit logging, health checks, and multi-environment promotion patterns. This lesson focuses on the operational reality of GitOps: drift is unavoidable. The difference between a minor incident and a multi-million-dollar outage is how fast you detect, understand, and resolve it. #GitOps #ArgoCD #DevOps #Kubernetes #BreakItFriday