GitOps
Also written as ArgoCD, Flux
An approach where a Git repository is the single source of truth for what infrastructure/deployments should look like — a tool automatically syncs the live system to match whatever's committed to Git.
Think of it like
Like a restaurant kitchen that automatically rearranges itself to match whatever floor plan is currently pinned to the office corkboard, the moment the pinned plan changes.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Hasn't seen GitOps drift out of sync with reality.
Senior sounds like
Can describe what broke when their GitOps setup and the actual running system drifted apart, and how they found out.
Ask them
“What broke when your GitOps setup and your actual running system drifted out of sync? How did you find out?”