Practical Example

We've set up the GitOps "infrastructure," so now we want to see it in action. Let's develop the scenario we just outlined:

In our production environment, we have Apache logs coming in via syslog. We want to process them, and then send them to our Elasticsearch instance.

We want to use our development environment to build our Route and Pipeline. But we don't want "real" data in development, so we'll use a datagen to generate Apache logs here, while using a syslog input in production. We'll also deliver this data to two different Elasticsearch indexes – one for development, one for production.

We'll create all of these components in the development UI. Then, when we're happy with them, we'll push them to Git, create and merge a PR, and watch how it all automagically appears in production!