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+Shivering-Isles GitOps Infrastructure
+===
+
+This repository contains the Kubernetes objects that are synced and managed by [flux](https://fluxcd.io) in order to be deployed.
+
+Assumptions
+---
+
+This repository is focused on a setup based on OpenShift, [OKD](https://okd.io) to be specific. Therefore some installations and settings might be based on the expecation of OKD's default setup instead of going the plain Kubernetes way of inventing everything ourselves.
+
+Tools
+---
+
+To handle things properly, try to get the following tools:
+
+- oc / kubectl (you should get it from your OKD cluster)
+- flux
+- [sops](https://github.com/mozilla/sops/releases/) (for secret handling)
+- [helm](https://helm.sh/) (just for sake of completeness and validation)
+
+