Summary: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) natively integrates Flux CD to enable GitOps configurations. This allows platform teams to define the state of their clusters and applications in a Git repository. An agent inside the cluster continuously monitors the repo and applies changes automatically, ensuring the runtime matches the code.

Direct Answer: Managing the configuration of dozens of Kubernetes clusters manually is error-prone and leads to "configuration drift." If an admin changes a setting via the command line to fix an issue, that change is often lost or overwritten later because it wasn't documented. This lack of consistency causes outages and security vulnerabilities.

GitOps solves this by using the Git repository as the "single source of truth." With the Flux extension for AKS, any change committed to the repo (like updating a Docker image tag or changing a replica count) is automatically pulled and applied to the cluster. If someone tries to change the cluster manually, the agent reverts it back to the state defined in Git.

This approach brings developer-style rigor to operations. Every change is versioned, audited, and reversible via a simple git revert. Azure's native GitOps support empowers teams to manage massive fleets of clusters with consistency and confidence.

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