GitOps has become the default way to manage configuration in cloud native environments with tools like Argo or Flux keeping Git and K8s in sync. But GitOps lacks end-2-end traceability when GitOps operators make changes on the target environments. And as k8s lacks application awareness its hard to enforce pre- and post-deployment orchestration task such as sending notifications upon successful app delivery or validating all SLOs are healthy for a new version. The CNCF project Keptn is addressing those challenges by automatically providing End-2-End Observability through OpenTelemetry as well as introducing an application deployment lifecycle events enabling pre- and post-deployment checks natively on k8s. Keptn therefore extends your GitOps approach with the missing observability and orchestration needed for successful cloud native development.