In a previous project we had a main repo that had the deploy/orchestration scripts, docs, etc and the actual components (frontend, backend, periodic and ondeman

In a previous project we had a main repo that had the deploy/orchestration scripts, docs, etc and the actual components (frontend, backend, periodic and ondemand jobs and jobqueue, blob serving thing that did ACL in front of Ceph - because for some reason S3 was too mainstream :D) doing a quick fix that changed an API and had to be done in backend and frontend and in the main. though it's quite similar to todays gitops flow, but with submodules :)