When you can deploy with CI/CD pipelines?
Most CI/CD pipelines stop once they push an image or run a deploy script.
That’s where the difference starts..
GitOps tools like ArgoCD and Flux keep clusters in sync with Git, not with whatever the last pipeline happened to run. They give you versioned config, automatic rollbacks, continuous reconciliation, and a single source of truth.
They also make changes auditable because every action starts with a commit and they remove hidden state by treating the cluster as something that must match Git, no guesswork.
The result is deployments that behave the same way every time.
