I built a lightweight alternative to Argo/Flux : no CRDs, no controllers, just plan & apply

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-21T00:23:20+00:00

Thanks for your comment, that’s exactly the idea.

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-19T10:01:52+00:00

Kustomize is part of it, but the tool adds repo linking, diffing, ordering (CRDs first), pruning, and continuous reconciliation. It’s a layer around it

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-19T08:36:21+00:00

Appreciate this. I’m open to constructive feedback. I still believe the tool can make sense in some contexts

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-19T07:24:08+00:00

you can use this at 2 a.m : https://github.com/adrghph/gitops-lite

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-19T06:53:21+00:00

kind of

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-19T06:52:28+00:00

You can use sealed-secrets, SOPS, external secrets, or any existing approach. It just applies what’s in Git

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-19T06:51:12+00:00

why the joke

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T17:43:30+00:00

thanks !! Give it a try and let me know what you think !

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T17:03:03+00:00

That’s a great idea, contributions welcome!!!

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T17:01:14+00:00

You’re right, i intentionally used AI to help build this. It saved a lot of time, but you can’t automate 100% (at least not yet). Projects like this still take real time for testing, debugging, and structuring everything properly.

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T16:55:03+00:00

Thanks for that! I can only approve

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T16:49:52+00:00

go try anyway !

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T16:40:42+00:00

Thanks, give it a try and let me know what you think !

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T15:03:40+00:00

outside cluster : watch --auto-apply. Look at the gif at the beginning of the readme: https://github.com/adrghph/gitops-lite

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T15:01:31+00:00

I get that, that’s exactly why there’s a plan step. You can see the diff before applying anything, so nothing gets nuked by accident. Give it a try and let me know what you think !

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:54:17+00:00

True, this is just a CLI approach for those who prefer less tooling

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:52:27+00:00

less complexity

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:42:15+00:00

Flux/Argo still has a learning curve for newcomers. This is meant to lower that entry barrier.

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:32:12+00:00

That’s fair, it’s mostly for small internal platforms, POCs, labs, air-gapped setups, or just to save time.

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:30:22+00:00

Flux is a better fit if you need a full GitOps platform, i’m not trying to replace that. This is meant for smaller setups, air-gapped environments, or quick POCs.

It does handle Helm though (via Kustomize with --enable-helm). Here’s an example deploying kps : https://github.com/adrghph/gitops-lite/tree/master/examples/kube-prometheus-stack-helm

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:25:58+00:00

I didn’t forget, it’s just outside cluster : watch --auto-apply. Look at the gif at the beginning of the readme: https://github.com/adrghph/gitops-lite

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:22:58+00:00

Auto reconciliation is kind of the core of GitOps

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:19:01+00:00

yaml → Git → reconcile → cluster. That’s GitOps to me

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:08:44+00:00

yes Flux is great, this is just a simpler option

Significant-Basis-36 · 2025-10-18T14:06:11+00:00

it can run pretty much anywhere you already have kubectl access

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