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From: Nicolai Ort <info@nicolai-ort.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:18:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs(day0): Added reverse gitops talk

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 content/day0/13_gitops-paradox.md | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 content/day0/13_gitops-paradox.md

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 title: Building Extensible Platforms
 weight: 12
 tags:
- - <tag>
+ - platformengineeringday
+ - platform
 ---
 
 <!-- {{% button href="https://youtu.be/rkteV6Mzjfs" style="warning" icon="video" %}}Watch talk on YouTube{{% /button %}} -->
diff --git a/content/day0/13_gitops-paradox.md b/content/day0/13_gitops-paradox.md
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+---
+title: "The GitOps Paradox: Why Your Devs Need an API You Don't Want To Build
+weight: 13
+tags:
+ - platformengineeringday
+---
+
+<!-- {{% button href="https://youtu.be/rkteV6Mzjfs" style="warning" icon="video" %}}Watch talk on YouTube{{% /button %}} -->
+<!-- {{% button href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nEK0CVC_yQgIDqwsdh-PRihB6dc9RyT-" style="tip" icon="person-chalkboard" %}}Slides{{% /button %}} -->
+{{% button href="https://colocatedeventseu2026.sched.com/event/2DY82" style="error" icon="calendar" %}}Sched Link{{% /button %}}
+{{% button href="https://github.com/ConfigButler/gitops-reverser" style="info" icon="code" %}}Code{{% /button %}}
+{{% button href="https://revertgitops.dev" style="info" icon="link" %}}Website/Homepage{{% /button %}}
+
+## Baseline
+
+- We all like files, humans like them, they are easy to use and AI can use them
+- Git is a good version manager
+- GitOps is cool and we want to keep it
+- **Problem**: I want to do something and now i need to create a yaml file and open a pr -> High toil
+- **Question**: Should git always be the primary entry path for changes
+- **Idea**: Use kubernetes api as our api server, have an operator that handels creation of manifests in git + promotions and so on and the changes to the "real" clusters are always made via gitopös
+
+## The paradox
+
+- We shield people from the kubernetes api and force them to use git
+- We build our own custom apis on top of the kubeapi anyways
+- Solution: Why not go back to using the Kubernetes API (humans and robots can use it)
+
+## Principles of the reverse gitops manifest
+
+1. API first (via Kubeapi) to reuse auth, crds, status, controllers and more
+2. Capture intent not implementation -> Not api-only (if you can do it bi-directional) with reversible&declarative resources
+3. GitOps applies -> Changes are always piped through gitops for reviews, history, rollback, promotions, ...
+
+## Implemantations examples
+
+- Use KRO as the abstraction that captures the intention
+- [GitOps Reverser](https://github.com/ConfigButler/gitops-reverser)
diff --git a/content/day0/_index.md b/content/day0/_index.md
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 - [Who built this platform? Alternative viewpoints on Platform Design](./03_whobuiltthis)
 - [A Practical Guide To Inner Sourcing Your IDP](./10_sourcing-your-idp)
+- [Thought provoking talk by Hazel](./12_extensible)
+- Very interesting concept that trues to combine a user-facing api with gitops in the background [Reverse gitops](./13_gitops-paradox)
 
 ## Other stuff I learned or people i talk to