We SREs and infrastructure engineers love GitOps. After all, what’s not to love about declarative infrastructure-as-code, a single source-of-truth, change tracking, and automated CI/CD pipelines that make the magic happen? However, we must ask whether GitOps is the silver bullet that solves all problems -- including climate change and world peace. Or are there limitations and situations where GitOps might not be the best approach?

This talk will explore why and how Bloomberg's cloud-native infrastructure engineering team migrated from GitOps to what we are calling “OperatorOps" -- a mix of declarative specifications and Kubernetes operators to handle Day 2 operations for our fully managed etcd-as-a-service system.

Sachin Kamboj is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP, driving next-gen microservices on Kubernetes to streamline deployments. Previously, he led the development of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology, enabling startups like eV2G and Nuvve. With a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware, he specializes in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and energy market integration.