Azure DevOps made us independent. It enabled us to deploy web API services many times a day to i.e. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The same is true for the APIs that follow the web API services and that are deployed to Azure API Management (APIM); we spend many hours creating, templating, or duplicating pipelines. Instead, we should take a big step back and look at the past where everything went through an operations team.

As both, a web API service and an API share the same lifecycle, we should deploy them as one unit. In this talk, you will learn to combine two powerful concepts, GitOps and Kubernetes operators. You will understand why this approach looks very similar to the way we worked 15 years ago with a little tweak.