How to achieve (actual) GitOps with Terraform and Kubernetes

GitOps might sound like a self-explanatory term, but it is not as easy as it sounds. Many think this just means to store your Infrastructure-as-Code in Git, then have pipeline run the code, but it is actually much more complicated than that. True GitOps takes the deployment out of CI/CD, and the most popular solutions are using Kubernetes controllers to do all the heavy lifting.
So if we can't just store our HCL files in a repository and have that trigger a pipeline, how can we use Terraform in a true GitOps fashion? Let me take you through your options, but also show you how we at Crayon have implemented our Terraform-based GitOps workflow.
Roberth Strand at the Cloud Native and Kubernetes meetup 18. October in Oslo.

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very informative