How Chick-fil-A Uses Kubernetes and GitOps At The Edge | Linux Today

How Chick-fil-A Uses Kubernetes and GitOps At The Edge

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 19, 2018

Fast food restaurants are not typically thought as being places where the latest trends in IT and cloud computing can be found, but that’s what’s happening at fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A.

Edge computing, the idea of having cloud-native resources at the edge of a network, is an emerging concept in IT and it’s having an impact at fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A. The restaurant chain is also making use of the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system and the concept of GitOps to help manage its edge deployments with a DevOps approach.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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