ArgoCon Europe 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[ArgoCon Europe 2023, ArgoCon Europe 2024, ArgoCon Europe 2025, ArgoCon Europe 2026]
as the organisers put it
ArgoCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on the Argo Project, which consists of four projects: Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events.
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, kubernetes operators, cloud engineers, security engineers, engineering managers
topics
Argo CD OCI registry support; Argo Workflows artifact plugins; Argo Rollouts progressive delivery; GitOps controller and mono-repo sync attribution; multi-cluster Argo Workflows at scale; external secret operator and CSI secrets; declarative rollout plugins and Gateway API; canary deployments decoupled from databases; automated FinOps with Argo Workflows; SPIFFE workload identity across Argo; Argo CD assistant for AI workflows; Kargo promotion layer for supply chain checks
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Dan Garfield | 11m |
Conference opens with concrete community and project metrics: 2,000 contributors, 79 maintainers, over 22,000 commits and roughly 6,000 reviews, driving an… | ||
| Argo Project Velocity Update | Dan Garfield | 11m |
Community reports include 2,000 contributors and 79 maintainers with over 22,000 commits, more than 6,000 code reviews, and an average 7 day average to merge… | ||
| Argo CD Update | Alexander Matyushentsev | 08m |
Argo CD ships four releases this year with 300+ new contributors, ~1,000s commits, 100+ features and nearly 600 bug fixes. Key additions: OCI registry support… | ||
| Argo Rollouts Update | Alexander Gaudreault | 05m |
Release is GA 1.9 with GA 1.9 and shows community growth: 69 contributors (55 first-time). Key concrete changes are a progress threshold that lets canary… | ||
| Argo Workflows Update | Isitha Subasinghe | 05m |
Argo Workflows 4.0 ships with 24 new features, 122 fixes and 73 contributors (37 new), plus 50 new contributors this quarter and one new reviewer, Eduardo… | ||
| Argo Events Update | Caelan Urquhart | 03m |
Three Argo Events releases including a 4.0 line add concrete features: GitHub emoji reaction triggers on PRs and GitLab MRs, Azure Service Bus deferred delete… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: From Kubernetes to Anything: The Evolution of Promotion... | Jesse Suen | 06m |
Kargo is now a universal promotion layer that runs user-defined container steps to enforce supply chain and policy checks before any Git commit, combining… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Argo CD vs the World | Steve Fenton | 06m |
Octopus Deploy’s State of GitOps report compares Argo CD to every other option using raw survey metrics. GitOps score 0–100 lands with Argo CD median well… | ||
| Bring Your Own Artifact Driver To Workflows | Alan Clucas | 22m |
Argo Workflows 4.0 adds artifact plugins: you build a containerized gRPC server implementing artifact.proto, push a Docker image, and register it in the… | ||
| GitOps and Secrets: State of the Union | Kostis Kapelonis | 25m |
Argo CD recommends externalizing secret management and points to the external-secret-operator or the secret store CSI driver as the supported paths. A demo… | ||
| Anatomy of a GitOps Engine: Understanding Your Sync | Alexandre Gaudreault | 25m |
Explains how Argo CD calls the GitOps Engine to perform three duties: cluster cache of live objects, manifest diffing, and the actual apply step; the engine… | ||
| Empowering Autonomy: BYD's Journey Taming Million-Task Scale With Argo... | Shuangkun Tian, Zhang Bao | 27m |
Migrates from Airflow to a multi‑cluster Argo Workflows deployment that manages 3,000+ GPUs and schedules over 1M tasks per day, using Argo CD/GitOps for… | ||
| Beyond Argo Rollouts: Boosting Developer Experience With Intelligen... | Carlos Sanchez, Kevin Dubois | 26m |
A working Argo Rollouts plugin calls an agentic AI pipeline that analyzes canary pods by fetching logs and metrics, decides health, and triggers automatic… | ||
| Don't Do What Donny Don't Does: The 10 Dos and 500 Don’ts of Workflows... | Tim Collins, Becky Pauley | 24m |
Practical production rules for Argo Workflows: instrument the controller, API and pods with observability, set container requests/limits and tune requeue time… | ||
| Panel: Building a GitOps... | Dan Garfield, Revital Barletz, Antonela Cukurin, Gabriel Quennesson | 37m |
Panelists describe real deployments: Argo CD manages ~30 clusters for Novo Nordisk (supporting ~100 teams) and ~80 clusters at Michelin with nine engineers… | ||
| Panel: From Signals To Safety Nets: Self-Healing Progressive... | Anastasiia G, Julia Furst M, Joe Fuller | 28m |
Shows a working self‑healing pipeline that uses Argo Rollouts, Linkerd, and Prometheus to convert time‑based canaries into signal‑driven rollouts. A Linkerd… | ||
| Analysis in Action: Real-World Metrics Driven Argo Roll... | Chris Detsicas, Antonio Jimenez Martinez | 22m |
Shows how Argo Rollouts uses AnalysisTemplates with Prometheus metrics and background Kubernetes jobs to automate canary and blue‑green promotion, aborting and… | ||
| GitOps Your Costs: Automated FinOps Through Argo Workflows | Kunal Das, Hrittik Roy | 25m |
Claims a closed loop that pulls Prometheus and OpenCost/Kubecost metrics, computes rightsizing, opens automated GitOps PRs and lets Argo CD apply changes with… | ||
| Argo CD: Previewing Pull Request Changes in SECONDS! | Dag Bjerre Andersen, Sergey Shevchenko | 21m |
Argo CD diff preview renders PR and main branches with a real Argo CD renderer and outputs deterministic diffs instead of guessing from templates. It runs in… | ||
| From Canary To Global: Unified Progressive Delivery for Hybrid Cloud With... | Zhuang Zhang, Ryan Wu | 26m |
Claims a unified platform that uses Karmada + Argo CD + Argo Rollouts to run global progressive delivery at production scale, proven with thousands of Argo… | ||
| Decoupling Canary Deployments From DBs With Argo Rollouts | Anastasiia Gubska | 27m |
Shows how to decouple schema changes from deployments using Argo Rollouts by making each migration backwards and forwards compatible so old and new versions… | ||
| Network Segmentation at Scale: GitOps-Driven Multi-Tenant Isol... | Luke Philips, Christian Hernandez | 25m |
Demo shows a production pattern using Argo CD and Cilium Network Policies to enforce both orchestration and network isolation, starting with five hand-crafted… | ||
| Beyond GitOps: Building Intelligent Drift Detection and... | Ram Mohan Rao Chukka, Shibi Ramachandran | 20m |
Argo CD is extended with OPA policies, ApplicationSets, Resource Hooks and a custom controller that calls agentic AI over an MCP to decide drift actions; the… | ||
| Cross-Cluster Progressive Delivery: Rolling Out Apps With Arg... | Carlos Santana, Elamaran Shanmugam | 28m |
Claim: treat multi-cluster rollouts as canaries at the cluster level and automate progression across environments instead of manual mass deploys. Uses Argo… | ||
| Agnostic Workload Identity Across the Argo Ecosystem Using SPIFFE... | Andrew Block, Blake Pettersson | 29m |
Demonstrates integrating SPIFFE/SPIRE SVIDs into the Argo ecosystem to replace long‑lived repo secrets: a prototype fetches short‑lived credentials via a token… | ||
| From FTP To Argo CD & Argo Rollouts: An Adoption History Insid... | Alfonso Ming, Meritxell Rodríguez | 22m |
A large retail SSO and mission software with more than 90 million users moves from Azure App Services and manual pipelines to a GitOps pipeline using Argo CD… | ||
| Declarative...ish? Fixing Hidden Argo CD Pitfalls in Your GitOps Setup | Regina Voloshin | 27m |
Four reproducible anti‑patterns and their fixes: hardcoding Helm data inside Application CRs mixes developer Helm values with static operator manifests, breaks… | ||
| Leveraging Argo Workflows To Move, Migrate and Manage All of Your Workflows | John Keates | 27m |
Company replaces brittle Jenkins sprawl with Argo Workflows + ArgoCD and an Argo Events bus, wiring GitHub webhooks into a dispatcher workflow that selects and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: The $10,000 Argo CD Mistake: Eliminating Phantom Sync... | Vanshika Jain, Aditya Soni | 09m |
When Argo CD scales beyond 500 applications the repo server becomes the performance bottleneck, constantly polling Git and regenerating manifests — phantom… | ||
| Lightning Talk: “Tilt? Goreman? Make? Go Run? A Contributor’s Guide To Argo CD Local... | Nitish Kumar | 06m |
Compares local workflows and gives actionable rules: use Make or go run for single binaries, use the Procfile with goreman to run related processes, and use… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Christian Hernandez | 01m |
A QR code links to an extensive survey that collects structured feedback from end users and people running Argo CD and Argo project components, not a quick… | ||
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