Modern distributed architectures are built from diverse components, yielding potentially complex interactions and dependencies. Validated Patterns enhance typical reference architectures or established use cases with automation and rigorous validation. While reference architectures provide a conceptual framework for building a given solution, Validated Patterns offer a deployable software artifact that automates and optimizes the framework, ensuring consistent, repeatable, extensible, and efficient deployments.

The Red Hat Validated Patterns Program is an open source project providing repositories of Validated Patterns for use by the greater community. Since patterns are open source, anyone can easily use, fork, modify and contribute to patterns. In this workshop participants will be immersed in foundational knowledge for creating, using and extending a GitOps pattern with the Validated Patterns framework. In this workshop participants will:

• Learn GitOps fundamentals
• Deploy a Validated Pattern
• Extend an existing Validated Pattern

With many patterns available to choose from, including both vertical and horizontal use cases spanning hybrid and multicloud, Artificial Intelligence, Modern Virtualization, Automation, and Digital Sovereignty, participants be poised to use existing patterns, and learn how to fork and modify patterns for their own use.