ArgoCon Europe 2024
2024-03-19
Paris, France
[ArgoCon Europe 2023, ArgoCon Europe 2024, ArgoCon Europe 2025, ArgoCon Europe 2026]
as the organisers put it
ArgoCon Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on ArgoCon’s YouTube channel. Review session slides from speakers who…
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, Kubernetes operators, devops engineers, platform architects, machine learning engineers, security engineers
topics
Argo CD multi-tenancy; Argo Workflows architecture; Argo Rollouts progressive delivery; OCI registry as application source; Hera Python function templates; controller sharding for scaling; rendered manifests promotion PRs; Argo Notifications bridging; Karpenter with Argo Workflows; ApplicationSet matrix generators; GitOps multi-stage promotion; Argo CD security gating
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Project Updates | Carlos Santana, Alan Clucas, Michael Crenshaw | 22m |
Argo reports about 8,000 commits and 14k PRs this year and ranks as the third largest CNCF project by number of authors; Argo Helm automates chart updates with… | ||
| Navigating Multi-stage Deployment Pipelines via the GitOps Approach | Jesse Suen | 07m |
Argues that existing GitOps (Argo CD/Flux) lack multi-stage promotion so Kargo layers on Argo CD to give a dashboarded pipeline that actually promotes… | ||
| Building on Argo and Open Source | Dan Garfield | 07m |
Announces Codefresh being acquired by Octopus Deploy and a commitment to increase engineering support for Argo CD and Rollouts, including doubling… | ||
| Orchestrating Python Functions Natively in Argo Using Hera | Elliot Gunton, J.P. Zivalich | 22m |
Hera compiles Python workflows into Argo YAML, treating every decorated function as a reusable template so you can unit test templates and still run them on… | ||
| Space-Age GitOps: The Rise of the Humble Pull Request | Zach Aller, Michael Crenshaw | 25m |
Intuit runs GitOps at scale—more than 1,000 developer teams, over 2,000 services, and 44,000 Argo CD syncs a day—and proposes three concrete rules: surface… | ||
| Panel: Argo for ML: Achieving Scalability and User Experience | J.P, Elliot Gunton, Sambhav Kothari, Alina Schmidt | 25m |
Companies describe building Argo Workflows platforms plus a Python layer that actually gets used: Argo plus Hera Python SDK powers continuous training and… | ||
| Panel: Expanding Argo CD Content Management Using OCI Artifacts | Andrew Block, Christian Hernandez, Dan Garfield, Hilliary Lipsig | 23m |
Proposal converts an OCI registry into an Argo CD application source so CI pushes a packaged bundle (Helm charts or rendered manifests) into a registry and… | ||
| Everything, Everywhere All at Once: The Infinite Potential of Application Sets and Matrix Generators | Luke Philips, Dan Garfield | 24m |
Shows how Argo CD ApplicationSets combine matrix+merge generators and plugins to spawn thousands of app manifests (one platform hit ~5,000 applications… | ||
| Growing Pain: Scaling to 10K Workflows per Week | Yao Lin, Harris Khan | 26m |
Bloomberg runs a centralized multi‑tenant Argo-based platform that reaches 10K workflows per week and hits real limits: repeated API timeouts from an API… | ||
| Demystifying Argo Workflows: An Architectural Deep Dive | Darko Janjić, Becky Pauley | 20m |
Argo Workflows runs as two deployments plus eight CRDs and a controller that watches workflow CRs, creates pods for each step (typically one workflow step =… | ||
| GitOps for the Edge: Delivering WebAssembly with Argo CD | Dan Norris, Joonas Bergius | 23m |
Demonstrates using Argo CD to deploy wasmCloud applications as OAM CRDs, with a Rust operator translating Argo syncs into wasmCloud lattice commands. Shows a… | ||
| Key Takeaways from Scaling Adobe's CI/CD Solution to Support.. | Andrew Lee, Vikram Sethi | 21m |
Adobe's Flex starts in 2022, hits instability around ~1,500 Argo CD apps, and now runs ~11,000 Argo CD apps while targeting >50,000. Engineering fixes include… | ||
| Unlocking the Power of Multi-Tenancy in ArgoCD: A Journey with Expedia.. | Anchal Jain, Rajat Porwal | 26m |
Expedia’s platform runs Argo CD across 600+ clusters with 20k nodes, 200k pods and 11k apps and uses Backstage, GitHub, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Spinnaker and… | ||
| Bridging Argo Notifications | Andre Jay Marcelo-Tanner, Alistair Israel | 24m |
A team builds Argo Bridge, a Ruby AWS Lambda middleware that sits between Argo Notifications, Argo CD and Argo Rollouts and external systems to look up PR and… | ||
| Why Is It Taking so Long?! Shining the Light on Application.. | Christian Hernandez, Andreas Grabner | 27m |
Argo CD sync slowdowns are diagnosed by installing Keptn (operator) and annotating the namespace to emit automated OpenTelemetry traces for every workload… | ||
| Glow up Your Stateful Services with Progressive Delivery Using Argo Rollouts! | Kostis Kapelonis | 26m |
Argo Rollouts runs blue/green and canary for stateful workers by combining Kubernetes downward API, Argo Rollouts ephemeral labels, and application auto-reload… | ||
| Scaling Cloud-Native CI/CD with Jenkins and the Argo Projects | Caelan Urquhart, Bertrand Quenin | 25m |
Compares running Jenkins and Argo Workflows together with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts and shows a working end-to-end pipeline that handles rendering manifests… | ||
| A Practical Guide to ArgoCD Security Gating | Matthias Bertschy, Laurent Rochette | 23m |
Live demo shows ArgoCD + Kubescape operator running a job-based scan during an Argo Rollout that returns failure codes and blocked deployment when checks fail… | ||
| The Rendered Manifests Pattern: Reveal Your True Desired State | Nicholas Morey | 26m |
GitOps stores the rendered Kubernetes manifests, not the Helm or Kustomize charts; render those manifests in CI for main and write them to environment branches… | ||
| Leveraging Argo Ecosystem for Scalable Cloud-Native Solutions at Databricks | Rohit Agrawal, Arjun Dcunha | 26m |
Databricks uses Argo Events, Argo Rollouts and Argo Workflows with Prometheus, Envoy and Kubernetes to run Gen Serving that handles ~5,000 active endpoints and… | ||
| Mastering Argo Workflows at Scale: A Practical Guide to Scalability Excellence | Tim Collins, Alec Stansell | 23m |
Case study shows Argo Workflows scaled from single‑pod to 18,000 pods per workflow by tuning controller and node resources, splitting large manifests (or… | ||
| Harnessing Karpenter: Transforming Kubernetes Clusters with Argo Workflows | Carlos Santana, Raj Saha | 22m |
Practical migration path from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter using Argo Workflows with code and a demo: automated extraction of node group metadata into node… | ||
| Progressive Delivery Made Easy with Argo Rollouts | Natalia Angulo, Carlos Sanchez | 26m |
Adobe deploys progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts and Prometheus-driven analysis to protect 17,000 environments and over 100,000 Deployment objects… | ||
| Argo CD - Plugins as Services | Alan Clucas | 16m |
Argues that decoupling Argo CD config management plugins from the repo server into external services enables independent scaling, safer service-account… | ||
| Platform Engineering with the Argo Ecosystem: The Elastic Story | Alejandro Martínez, Stephen Schmidt | 27m |
Elastic builds a Kubernetes-first, multi-cloud platform that automates deploys to a growing fleet (they hit ~100 clusters and scale dynamically), using… | ||
| Comparing Argo Workflows and Airflow in a Distributed Environment | Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, Ekansh Gupta | 26m |
Compares Argo and Airflow by showing architecture, feature differences and live demos: Argo runs natively on Kubernetes with YAML manifests, a Python SDK… | ||
| Panel: Argo Vs Flagger: Progressive Delivery with Linkerd | Scott Rigby, Anastasiia Gubska, Kostis Kapelonis | 25m |
Compares Argo Rollouts and Flagger using Linkerd for canary, blue/green and A/B progressive delivery, showing concrete tradeoffs: Linkerd provides cluster‑wide… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Dan Garfield | 01m |
Closing remarks recap concrete asks and next steps for Argo contributors at the fourth ArgoCon: star the Argo project repos on GitHub, add your org to each… | ||
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