How would you answer an interview scenario involving GitOps with Helm in Helm?

For an interview scenario involving GitOps with Helm, I would first clarify the business goal, scale, constraints, and the failure or quality attribute the interviewer wants to explore. GitOps uses version-controlled desired state and automated reconciliation, often rendering or applying Helm charts from Git. In this scenario, a production value was changed manually during an incident. Explain how GitOps should handle and reconcile that change. For production, store declarative release configuration in Git, use pull-request review, restrict direct cluster changes, and let a reconciler apply approved state. I would then explain the main alternatives and tradeoffs, identify likely failure modes, and describe how I would validate the solution through testing, observability, security controls, and recovery or rollback planning.