Versioning

As explained in Road to Kubernetes

Version control is a system for recording, managing, and coordinating changes to files and source code over time.

Version control records changes to files over time so you can return to earlier states. Like undo and redo, it lets you move backward or forward through a document’s history. Git is a version control system used to track and share code. section 2.3

With Git, you can:

• Track code changes and ignore selected file types. section 2.3
• Revert code to an earlier version. section 2.3
• Push code to remote storage and pull it for production. section 2.3
• Trigger workflows that use the code, including CI/CD automation. section 2.3

In a deployment workflow, Git tracks and shares application code before containers are introduced; changes in Git can also trigger automated builds. section 1.2

Figure 1.2 Code path to Kubernetes

Shows where tracking and sharing code fit in the path toward deployment automation and Kubernetes. section 1.2

How Road to Kubernetes covers it

How deep it goes

Defines version control through an undo analogy and lists Git capabilities, without detailing their internal mechanics.

Examples

Uses notebook copies and undo/redo as analogies, then illustrates Git with code tracking and reversion.

What it assumes

Assumes at least beginner familiarity with coding modern applications.

What you can do after

Apply version control via Git to track, revert, share, and retrieve code, and trigger workflows.

How it connects

Connects Git with remote repositories, CI/CD, and deployment.

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Related concepts

• gitincludes · Git is a distributed version-control system that records changes to files and supports managing project history and collaboration across repositories.
• breaking changeaddresses · A breaking change is a modification to an interface, behavior, format, configuration, or contract that can prevent existing consumers from working correctly without changes.
• GitOpsused by · GitOps is an operational approach that uses version-controlled declarative configuration as the source of truth and automation to apply or reconcile system state.
• reproducibilityproduces · Reproducibility is the ability to recreate the same or equivalent results by repeating a process with the same relevant inputs, methods, and conditions.
• deployment pipelineused by · A sequence of automated or manual stages that builds, tests or validates, packages, and delivers software or models toward deployment.

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