Enabling a Self-Service Developer Experience with GitOps
Learn why a GitOps-powered self-service platform improves developer experience while enhancing your application's speed, security, and scalability.
Further reading
Use-case: Building self-service platforms
Practical Strategies for Adopting GitOps for Self-service Developer Platforms
2020 State of DevOps - GitOps Accelerates Self Service
DevOps disrupted the software development process by tearing down the siloed approach and bringing together developers and ops teams with a singular purpose: building quality applications fast. Organizations quickly shifted and released software faster than the traditional method until they hit a snag.
While DevOps normalized developers' and operators' collaboration, it wasn’t smooth. Scaling applications and releasing new features was turning out to be a challenge. Developers were at the receiving end of the blurring of lines between these two departments. The developer experience took a hit. Today, GitOps promises a better approach to software delivery that puts developer experience front and center. That’s the focus of our newest whitepaper.
Improving developer experience for enhanced output
Developer experience (DX) is a critical aspect of software development. This is especially true for cloud-native applications. And from the frustration of developers rose the brilliant concept of a ‘self-service platform.’ It is the practice of providing developers with customizable components to accelerate their journey from concept to code to production.
Gartner predicted that 9 out of 10 organizations would fail to scale their DevOps practice if they didn’t adopt a self-service approach. The research firm quoted,
“The goal of self-service is to ensure developers have an experience that makes ‘the right thing to do, the intuitive thing to do.”
The self-service platform gives developers autonomy in the process and significantly reduces their dependence on the ops team for resource provisioning. Companies have seen a great uptick in productivity and efficiency of the development team with an internal developer platform.
But the million-dollar question here is, how do you make a great developer experience?
What you will learn in this whitepaper?
GitOps enables you to provide an ideal developer experience. It inherently offers developer-centric capabilities, including automation, autonomy, and ‘shift left’ security. With GitOps, developers will only worry about writing code.
Topics covered in this whitepaper titled ‘Enabling a Self-Service Developer Experience with GitOps’ include:
- Why is developer experience of such significance?
- What is the reason behind the rising popularity of self-service?
- What goes into making a great developer experience?
- Role of GitOps in providing amazing developer experience
- How does Weave GitOps Enterprise enable you to build an ideal developer platform?

Get in touch with us to drive remarkable results with your self-service developer platform at your organization.