ArgoCon Europe 2023
as the organisers put it
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who it's for
platform engineers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, cloud engineers, kubernetes engineers, security engineers, data engineers, engineering managers
topics
Argo CD ApplicationSets; Argo Rollouts progressive delivery; Argo Workflows with Hera; GitOps migrations from legacy; air-gapped cloud deployments; Trivy vulnerability scanning; config management plugins UI; mono-repo bootstrapping matrix generator; managed Argo CD services; automated cluster bootstrapping with Terraform; promotion automation Telefonistka; artifact management with Harbor
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Sailing Across the Ocean of Argo Ecosystem Like a Pro | Khushboo Mittal, Kush Trivedi | 25m |
DevRev migrates from a costly proprietary CD tool after a 15X microservice surge and runs ArgoCD, Argo Workflows and Argo Rollouts for end to end GitOps… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Argo and GitOps in a Managed Services World | Harriet Lawrence | 04m |
Red Hat’s OpenShift GitOps is the company’s Argo CD implementation and will add Argo Rollouts soon, presented as a concrete route to make managed services and… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Argo Project: The Cloud Native Key Ingredient | Alexander Matyushentsev | 07m |
Argo presents itself as a core cloud‑native ingredient with concrete milestones: graduated in 2022, contributor count rising from a two‑person project to… | ||
| Scaling GitOps Using ArgoCD Application-Sets: Lesson Learnt | Amit Dsouza | 24m |
Implemented ArgoCD ApplicationSets to replace per-app and app-of-apps maintenance, using matrix generator (git + list) to bootstrap clusters from a mono‑repo… | ||
| From Legacy to GitOps | Gonzalo Izquierdo, Manuel Hernandez | 23m |
Migrates multiple Spanish ministries from a manual, single-branch, ticket-driven deployment model to GitOps using Argo CD and Kubernetes, replacing… | ||
| GitOps - The Magic Key to Cloud Native Security | Anais Urlichs | 22m |
Claim: defining resources in Git raises observable surface so scanners hit more of the stack. Demo uses Argo CD for declarative deploys and Trivy (CLI + Trivy… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Telefonistka - Safe and Controlled GitOps Promotion Across Environments/Failure-Domains, as Code | Oded Ben-Ozer | 09m |
An open source tool called Telefonistka watches repo folders and automatically opens promotion PRs per an in-repo flow file, supporting multi-stage, fan‑out… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Merging Best Practices with Reality: One Repository for Code and Helm | Omer Kahani | 07m |
Combines application code and Helm charts into one repo for code+Helm and uses the existing Argo CD apps repository (app-of-apps) to store per-cluster image… | ||
| ArgoCD as the Engine of a Brownfield Migration to Kubernetes | John Keates | 27m |
Small platform team migrates a decade-old Marathon/Chronos setup to Kubernetes using ArgoCD as the central delivery engine, Helm charts, Istio for traffic… | ||
| How to Preview and Diff Your Argo CD Deployments | Kostis Kapelonis | 21m |
Covers four concrete ways to diff Argo CD deployments and why three fall short: the Argo CD UI diff is useful but delays detection and clashes with auto-sync… | ||
| NextGen Argo: Elevating Continuous Delivery with Easy to Use Plugins | Michael Crenshaw, Sai Sindhu Chakradari | 29m |
Argo CD 2.7 adds first-class UI for config management plugins so plugins can advertise parameter announcements, users can edit and persist overrides into the… | ||
| Cloud Native Deployments in Air Gapped Environments | Thomas Fricke | 25m |
A reproducible management cluster is built to push vetted artifacts into air‑gapped production using Harbor, Trivy, ArgoCD, Gitea as core components; images… | ||
| Scaling Argo Security and Multi-Tenancy in AWS EKS at the New York Times | David Grizzanti, Luke Philips | 24m |
The New York Times builds an internal dev platform using Argo CD on AWS EKS with a single control plane that manages tenant namespaces, adopting one Argo to… | ||
| GitOps Me Some of That! Managing Hundreds of Clusters with Argo CD | Mike Tougeron | 26m |
Automated registration and deployment pipeline uses Argo CD + Argo Events + Workflows to register clusters and deploy Helm charts via Cluster API, managing… | ||
| GitOps and CI/CD: Maintaining Security in the Age of Automation | Christian Hernandez, Hilliary Lipsig | 28m |
Explains concrete controls and outcomes: lock down Git repos, require peer review and authenticated service accounts, and prefer immutable image tags so… | ||
| Argo Rollouts from the Trenches – Next Level Progressive Delivery Best Practices | Kathleen Lamkin, Harriet Lawrence | 24m |
Intuit migrates thousands of services to Argo Rollouts aiming for a 100% target state using canary analysis, shipping Day‑Zero templates and a rollouts… | ||
| Argo Rollouts Reinvented: Unleash the Power of Custom Plugins for Progressive Delivery | Zach Aller | 22m |
Argo Rollouts 1.5 adds a plugin framework that runs external executables as child processes using HashiCorp’s go-plugins net/rpc, letting clusters download… | ||
| Argo Workflows in Action: Rabobank's Journey to Cloud Native Banking | Sudesh Jethoe, Karly Huijbrechts | 25m |
Rabobank migrates nightly mortgage-status jobs from Chronos on Mesos to Argo Workflows on Azure Kubernetes, runs them in production for two years, and resolves… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Operate Sidecar and Sidecar-Less Applications with Istio and ArgoCD Rollouts | Lin Sun | 09m |
Demo of Istio ambient mesh plus Argo shows a working pipeline: Argo Rollouts operated via ArgoCD updates a HelloWorld service by editing Istio VirtualService… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Improving Release Reliability with Argo Rollouts Across 10k Customer Services | Carlos Sanchez | 06m |
Adobe Experience Manager moves 17,000+ environments (100k+ deployment objects across ~35–240 clusters and 6k+ namespaces) to Argo Rollouts to run canary… | ||
| Revolutionizing Continuous Deployment: How Databricks Integrates ArgoRollouts to Achieve Zero-Downtime Releases | Rohit Agrawal, Gavin Kliger | 27m |
Databricks integrates Argo Rollouts with Jenkins, Spinnaker, Prometheus and Istio to run 10,000 releases every day across 100+ regions for ~300 microservices… | ||
| Managing Artifacts at Scale for CI and Data Processing | Caelan Urquhart, Julie Vogelman | 25m |
Covers concrete Argo features and configs: use Key-only artifacts via ConfigMaps to avoid repeating S3/MinIO settings, embed workflow UID in artifact keys to… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Configuring Volumes for Parallel Workflow Reads and Writes | Lukonde Mwila, Tim Collins | 07m |
Using Argo Workflows with Argo CD plus an NFS server provisioner converts EBS or node ephemeral disks into ReadWriteMany volumes that pods can dynamically… | ||
| Multi-Branch Pipeline with Argo Workflows and CI/CD Debugging. | Gosha Dozoretz | 24m |
Builds a multi-branch workflow CRD per commit by having an Argo Events sensor receive GitHub webhooks, a "cedar" component fetch the app repo plus a separate… | ||
| Scaling Gene Therapy Research with Argo Workflows and Hera | Flaviu Vadan | 20m |
Dyno Therapeutics uses Argo Workflows and Hera to generate and test AAV variants from 750‑base sequences (search space ~20^750), running design jobs with ~500… | ||
| Shipping Argo Workflows in Packages | Junaid Rahim, Nitin Sutrave | 11m |
Atlan builds a package manager that treats Argo workflow templates as versioned JS packages and runs in production, publishing to a Verdaccio private NPM… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Member | Hong Wang | 14m |
Project describes four independent CNCF-native tools and what each actually does: Argo CD: GitOps lifecycle manager; Argo Workflows: Kubernetes-native workflow… | ||
| Training and Ensuring Reliability of ML Models at Wolt: The Power of ArgoCD, Flyte, and Argo Workflows | Stephen Batifol | 25m |
Wolt runs reproducible ML training on Kubernetes using Argo CD + Flyte + Argo Workflows, ties models into MLflow and deploys with Seldon Core, and automates… | ||
| Leveraging Argo WorkflowTemplates Within a Data Platform | J.P. Zivalich, Yao Lin | 22m |
Two companies build a control plane that syncs Argo WorkflowTemplates from GitHub/GitLab into clusters, using a deployment API + Postgres, Fluent Bit + GraphQL… | ||
| Lightning Talk: How to Avoid a Kubernetes Doom Loop | David Collom | 09m |
A misconfigured pod causes automated deletes to loop, flooding a GCP cluster running 16K Argo Workflows across >165 nodes and creating 18,000 workflows and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Using Kustomize KRM Functions to Enhance Argo CD Application Deployments | Jan Heylen | 07m |
Team builds an Argo CD plugin that uses Kustomize KRM functions (alpha) to perform computational transformations on Kubernetes YAML, embedding plugin.jaml and… | ||
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