Set up Flux CD in staging with a small application whose desired state is stored in Git. Make a safe change, confirm reconciliation, then commit a bad manifest and observe how the team detects and reverses it. Check what happens when the cluster or Git source is temporarily unavailable.
GitOps makes change history visible, but it does not guarantee that a manifest is healthy. Add validation, ownership, and a documented rollback procedure. The pilot succeeds when an operator can explain the deployed state and recover quickly.
Akousa