Enhancing GitOps with Elixir for Self-Service Platforms

Lars Hesel Christensen and Bikram Chatterjee from ElixirConf EU 2023 highlight how they utilize Elixir to augment GitOps processes for building a Self-Service platform that enables fast feedback-loop validations, stakeholder engagement in reviews and approvals, and external approval workflows. Utilizing Elixir's State Machine, Templating, and custom behaviors, they build a platform that provisions resources using advanced infrastructure principles while accommodating corporate governance constraints. The system consists of abstract callbacks and modular components that handle changes and approvals from Git pull requests, ensuring consistency and fault tolerance. They have created different OTP apps to manage API integration and service orchestration, and they emphasize decentralization and the empowerment of teams through self-service.