Poor man's gitops

The idea of this project is to provide a true gitops experience for small, most likely single node setups. Therefore it's main target environment is a single node docker setup without k8s or similar orchestration solutions.

Project idea

A small and lightweight service (maybe even in docker itself) which monitors a git repository and applies found manifests (e.g. docker-compose files) to the local docker/podman.

graph TD
    git[Git] <-->|Continuously pull changes| B(A poor mans gitops)
    B --> C{Docker/Podman}
    C --> D[Container A]
    C --> E[Container B]
    C --> F[Container C]

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Minimal viable feature set

• Continuously monitors one given git repository
• Applies found docker-compose files to the local docker/podman instance
• Can be run in docker itself
• Minimal web ui to see what is deployed and what not

Possible feature set

• Support deployments without zero downtime
• Prometheus metrics
• Run as a systemd service
• Webhooks to notify about health changes and deployment updates
• Support for other kind of manifest files than docker-compose
• Support for multiple git repositories
• Auto generate secrets for zero trust
• much more