Why Kubernetes Needs an IDP, Not Just GitOps

We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real problem. It just doesn't solve all the problems people think it solves. What GitOps Actually Solves L