ArgoCon Europe 2025
2025-04-01
London, United Kingdom
[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 the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from speakers who…
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, kubernetes operators, platform architects, security engineers, ci/cd engineers
topics
Argo CD autopilot; Argo Workflows mutexes and semaphores; Argo Rollouts progressive delivery; Kubernetes Gateway API integration; multi-cluster GitOps; ephemeral Argo CD access; Argo Helm chart automation; service account impersonation for Argo CD; OCI source support for Argo; Argo Events dead letter queue; time series analysis with Argo Workflows
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Katie Lamkin-Fulsher | 03m |
Welcome and orientation emphasizes collecting concrete feedback via a large QR linking to a link tree with Argo CD survey and Argo Workflows survey to surface… | ||
| Project Update | Dan Garfield | 18m |
Argo reports concrete uptake and activity: 50% of Kubernetes clusters deploy using Argo CD, 180 companies add themselves to users.md in 2024, and the project… | ||
| Project Updates: Argo CD | Michael Crenshaw | 08m |
Argo CD reports 1,700 commits, 3,500 contributors, 120 new features and 350 bug fixes over the last year, with about 100 releases and a 20% year‑over‑year star… | ||
| Project Updates: Argo Workflows | Shuangkun Tian | 06m |
Argo Workflows reports concrete growth: GitHub stars rise to about 15.5k, +10 contributors, ~40 new features and ~100 bug fixes, with v3.6 plus 10+ patch… | ||
| Project Updates: Argo Rollouts | Zach Aller | 05m |
Per-quarter non-maintainer contributions steadily rise over the past five years, with unique contributor counts climbing; the project ships a plugin… | ||
| Project Updates: Argo Events | Caelan Urquhart | 02m |
Project update covers contributor growth and maintenance work with four patch releases and emphasis on security and bug fixes, plus 12 new features. Git event… | ||
| Project Updates: Argo Helm Packages | Tim Collins | 03m |
Official Helm chart for Argo projects consumes upstream releases and packages them with automation that targets a 72-hour target from upstream release to chart… | ||
| GitOps Promotion Across Multi-cloud and Edge | Christian Hernandez | 06m |
Akuity presents an agent-based Argo model that runs control logic on managed clusters (mesh rather than hub‑and‑spoke), claiming lower latency and simpler edge… | ||
| A Holistic Approach to Software Delivery with Argo | Bob Walker | 04m |
Argues that Argo CD is an engine not a pipeline and that production-grade delivery requires a control plane to model instances, manage promotions and… | ||
| Defining SLOs and SLIs for ArgoCD: A Metrics-Driven Approach To Observability | Serhiy Martynenko | 20m |
ArgoCD metrics are trimmed to customer-focused SLIs such as 95% of syncs <20s and production-only sync success rates, with historical baselines used to set… | ||
| Progressive Delivery With Argo Rollouts and Kubernetes Gateway API for Multi-Directional... | Lin Sun | 28m |
Shows Argo Rollouts wired to the Kubernetes Gateway API and Istio Ambient Mesh to do progressive delivery for both east-west and north-south traffic using… | ||
| Argo Trivia! | Katie Lamkin-Fulsher | 09m |
Live Kahoot-style quiz testing concrete Argo facts with real-time scoring and swag for podium finishers. Questions name specific subprojects and features: Argo… | ||
| A Million Ways To Promote Changes Between Environments | Dan Garfield, Viktor Farcic | 27m |
Compares concrete promotion patterns and what actually works: CI-driven pipelines that run argo sync and hang waiting for long canaries, Image Updater commits… | ||
| One Engine To Rule Them All: Unifying Cloud Workloads With Argo Workflows | Sebastian Beyvers | 25m |
Argonative claim: Argo Workflows can act as a single scheduling engine by either migrating workloads into Argo or integrating existing systems via proxy steps… | ||
| Redefining the Multi-Cluster Story of Argo CD | Harriet Lawrence | 17m |
Argo CD flips control: a new community project argocd-agent places one principal in a control plane and small agents on each workload cluster that initiate… | ||
| Argo CD Ephemeral Access in Action: Lessons Learned While Runnin... | L.L. Almeida, K. Lamkin-Fulsher | 25m |
Intuit runs Argo CD at scale—50+ Argo CD instances, 345+ Kubernetes clusters and ~24,000 PRs/day—and implements an Argo CD ephemeral access extension that… | ||
| Multi Cluster Magics With Argo CD and Cluster Inventory | Nick Eberts, Christian Hernandez | 21m |
Claims a standard Cluster Inventory via cluster profile that centralizes cluster metadata, an open source multicluster orchestrator that recommends placement… | ||
| Set It To Auto: Using Argo CD Autopilot To Simplify Everything | Dustin Van Buskirk | 21m |
Shows a concrete workflow: an Autopilot binary ties the Kubernetes API to a Git repo and uses autopilot bootstrap to install and configure Argo CD under… | ||
| Scaling Argo CD: From Symptoms To Solution | Alexandre Gaudreault | 24m |
Constant 32,000 reconciliations explains runaway CPU: HPA status updates trigger reconciles, so enabling debug logs for 30 minutes identifies offending… | ||
| The Hidden Dangers of Defaults: Securing Multi-Tenant Argo CD Install... | R. Voloshin, D.B. Andersen | 24m |
Argo CD ships with an overly permissive default app project that lets any app read any repo, create cluster‑wide RBAC, and deploy to any namespace or cluster… | ||
| Extending Argo CD CLI Functionality With Plugin Support: Build Your Cust... | N. Kumar | 11m |
Adds plugin support to argocd CLI in version 3.1 and shows a working demo plugin called mta that converts Flux resources like HelmRelease and Kustomization… | ||
| Scaling Time Series Analysis With Argo Workflows: Patterns and Practi... | A. Ambrosio | 10m |
Argues that Argo Workflows turns heavy time series work into scalable Kubernetes pipelines by using data partitioning and shared volumes to avoid loading whole… | ||
| Are You Sure It Works? Double Check Your Workflow Spec With Validating... | Will Wang | 10m |
A validating admission webhook built with kubebuilder calls Argo’s validate.go to reject malformed Argo Workflow CRs at API-server time, catching missing… | ||
| Mitigating Privilege Escalation in Multi-Tenant Argo CD | Anand Francis Joseph | 13m |
Argocd’s multi-tenant privilege problem gets two concrete fixes: policy enforcement with Kyverno or OPA to block misconfigured projects, and a new app sync… | ||
| Argo at Scale: Navigating Complex Multi-Dimensional Deployments Across H... | C. Santana, M. Tougeron | 23m |
Adobe runs 430 clusters across 7 providers in 22 regions and deploys at scale — 554 addon deployments in February to a Fleet of ~50,000 Argo CD applications… | ||
| Continuous Delivery & Resource Health for SpinKube/WASM Applications With A... | L. Philips, R Matei | 21m |
ArgoCD manages SpinKube (Spin) WebAssembly apps by bootstrapping the cluster (operator, runtimeClass using containerd) then syncing a spin-cube CRD generated… | ||
| No More Pipelines: Reconciling Environment Promotion Via Commit Statuses W... | M. Crenshaw, Z. Aller | 24m |
Claim: replace imperative promotion pipelines with a declarative, Git-driven flow that gates environment moves using commit statuses. Platform teams run an… | ||
| Scale GitOps With the Argo CD Agent and Open Cluster Management | Joshua Packer | 23m |
Describes using Argo CD Agent with Open Cluster Management (OCM-io) to run a hub‑and‑spoke GitOps pull model that scales to hundreds or thousands of clusters… | ||
| Closing Remarks Track 1 | Katie Lamkin-Fulsher | 01m |
Conference wraps with a request to take the survey and confirm the keynote slide photo that was shown this morning, plus a reminder of a collocated happy hour… | ||
| Closing Remarks Track 2 | Christian Hernandez | 01m |
Attendees are asked to scan the QR code and take the survey collecting concrete feedback on what to improve in Argo projects and conference logistics, with… | ||
| Automated Resilience: Using Argo Events for Real-Time Incident Remediation | Darko Janjić | 23m |
Demonstrates an Argo Events pipeline that receives a Prometheus Alertmanager webhook, filters for a critical cryptominer detected alert, and starts an Argo… | ||
| Panel: Native OCI Integration - Leveraging Argo CD Source Content in a Brand New Way | Andrew Block, Ishita Sequeira, Michael Crenshaw, Blake Pettersson, Toddy Mladenov | 36m |
Argo CD adds native OCI source support as a new source type (planned for Argo CD 3.1), with the repo server resolving tag revisions, pulling OCI manifests… | ||
| Argo Workflow Templates: A Practical Deep-Dive | Tim Collins, Becky Pauley | 23m |
Covers the concrete mechanics and tradeoffs of nine template types: container, script, container set, resource, suspend, HTTP, plugin, plus steps and DAG… | ||
| Autoscaling and Progressive Delivery - A Match Made in Heaven | Anastasiia Gubska, Kostis Kapelonis | 21m |
Demonstrates that progressive delivery can run with autoscalers: authors run 10 concrete examples, including an HPA watching memory (min 1, max 10) against a… | ||
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