Gitops changes the definition of ‘Delivery’ or ‘Deployment’

We have Gitops these days …. so there is a desired state of an environment in a repo and a reconciling mechanism done by Gitops to enforce this state on the environemnt.

There is no continuous whatever step inbetween … Gitops is just ‘overwriting’ (to avoid saying ‘delivering’ or ‘deploying’) the environment with the new state.

This means whatever quality ensuring steps have to take part before ‘overwriting’ have to be defined as state changer in the repos, not in the environments.

Conclusio: I think we only have three contexts, or let’s say we don’t have the contect ‘continuous delivery’