ArgoCon NA 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Katie Lamkin-Fulsher | 03m |
Room opens with chaotic travel reports and a brief welcome noting many delayed flights, then a rundown of logistics and community next steps: thanks to the… | ||
| Project Update: Argo CD Update | Michael Crenshaw | 09m |
Project update reports 1,700 commits, 165 new features, 390+ bug fixes and 88 releases with 17% year-over-year growth and a 36-person maintainer team that… | ||
| Project Update: Argo Workflows Update | Mason Malone | 05m |
Project reports 48 new contributors and 20 releases this year, 3 new reviewers, and Argo Workflows at version 3.7 with 4.0 planning. New capabilities include… | ||
| Project Update: Argo Rollouts Update | Zach Aller | 05m |
Argo Rollouts reports concrete scale and maintenance updates: 24,000 rollout objects across 350 clusters and 116,000 deployments per month, with an abort… | ||
| Project Update: Argo Helm Project Update | Jason Meredith | 03m |
Helm maintainers report 182 releases since the last ArgoCon, driven by volunteers and focused on timely security releases for critical infrastructure; release… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: From Clusters to Cloud: Taking GitOps Promotion Further with Kargo | Jesse Suen | 06m |
Kargo continuously watches OCI artifacts and Git, groups updated images, policies, and Terraform into a promotable freight, opens a PR to promote between… | ||
| Supercharge Your Canary Deployments With Argo Rollouts Step Plu... | Alexandre Gaudreault, Zach Aller | 25m |
Argo Rollouts v1.8 adds Canary Step plugins implemented as standalone Go binaries (HashiCorp go-plugin over net/rpc) that expose run/terminate/abort methods… | ||
| What the Diff? | Gerald Nunn, Andrew Block | 28m |
Explains how Argo CD actually detects drift: the default legacy client-side three‑way diff uses last-applied-configuration, while the server-side diff does a… | ||
| Beyond Review Apps: Orchestrating Full-Stack Ephemeral Environments... | Zach Hammer, Colin O'Dell | 24m |
SeatGeek builds Ephie, an Argo CD–driven system that dynamically creates Argo CD Applications via a custom Kubernetes operator, deploys services into ephemeral… | ||
| Server-Side Diff: Future-Proofing ArgoCD's Comparison Engine | Peter Jiang, Leonardo Luz Almeida | 26m |
Argo CD moves diff computation to the Kubernetes API using Server-Side Apply dry-run, generating predicted live state that respects CRD schemas, defaulted… | ||
| Rendered Manifests and OCI | Christian Hernandez | 23m |
The rendered manifests pattern moves templating into CI so Helm/Kustomize output becomes an immutable artifact (stored in environment deployment branches or… | ||
| The Case for ArgoCD and CdEvents Integration | Luke Philips, Kostis Kapelonis | 22m |
Argues Argo CD can both emit and consume cdEvents by wiring the Argo CD notifications controller to produce standardized JSON messages, demonstrated by a… | ||
| Panel: Navigating Promotions: Insights From the Argo Community | Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Michael Crenshaw, Taylor Thomas, Dan Garfield | 37m |
Argo community panel presents concrete fixes: survey shows nearly 67% DIY with scripts; GitOps Promoter uses a pair of branches per environment and a 10-line… | ||
| Panel: What They Don’t Tell You About Shipping Argo CD V3.0: A Maintainer’s... | Nitish Kumar, Alexander Matyushentsev, Regina Voloshin, Leonardo Luz Almeida, Alexandre Gaudreault | 30m |
Argo CD v3.0 focuses on removing discouraged configs, tightening defaults for security and performance, and avoiding extra maintenance branches by doing a… | ||
| Beyond Production: End-to-End CI/CD Observability With OpenTelemetry | Ekansh Gupta | 25m |
Demonstrates end-to-end CI/CD observability using OpenTelemetry with Argo Workflows, ArgoCD, GitLab and Signos: deploys an OpenTelemetry collector (minikube)… | ||
| Managing Millions of Storage Volumes at Scale: Inside DigitalOcean's... | Yash Sharma, Anandhkumar TV | 19m |
DigitalOcean runs a single ArgoCD instance in GCP to manage 13+ clusters across 11+ regions powering millions of volumes and achieves sub‑5‑minute deployments… | ||
| Fix Production Rollouts on the Fly With Agentic AIOps | Carlos Sanchez, Kevin Dubois | 24m |
Demonstration shows an Argo Rollouts + Agentic AI pipeline that runs a Kubernetes agent (Quarkus example) which analyzes logs, Prometheus metrics and pod state… | ||
| Revolutionizing Argo Integration With Model Context Protocol: An... | Carlos Santana, Sri Aradhyula | 30m |
A pipeline converts Argo OpenAPI specs into tested MCP servers by augmenting raw Swagger with LLM‑generated descriptions, generating Python servers and an A2A… | ||
| Building Secure MLOps Pipelines With KitOps + Argo Workflows | Shivay Lamba, Ekansh Gupta | 27m |
Shows packaging a sklearn sentiment model (pickle) into a CNCF Sandbox model kit using the kit pack command, pushing the immutable OCI artifact to a registry… | ||
| From Gatekeepers To Enablers: Empowering Developers With ApplicationSets | Ido Ziv, Adi Ziv | 18m |
Migrates 2,000+ Argo CD Applications across six regions and 11 environments to a centralized ApplicationSet platform, replacing a brittle app-of-apps monolith… | ||
| GitOps Meets AIOps: Building Reliable AI Pipelines With Argo | Benji Kalman, Shiran Melamed | 23m |
Argo orchestrates LLM agents to find and patch open‑source CVEs end‑to‑end, using Argo Workflows for per‑agent DAGs, Argo CD for GitOps deployment, and… | ||
| Perception Data Pipeline Reconstruction With Argo Workflows | Shuangkun Tian, Yizhen Chen | 23m |
An end-to-end perception pipeline built on Argo Workflows and Argo Events orchestrates over 40,000 tasks daily and claims a 2x task execution speedup. The… | ||
| The PR Is the UI: Simplifying Argo for Developers | Chris Reilly, Tyler Emery | 27m |
Priceline turns the Pull Request into the single deployment UI, wiring Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events into an internal API that posts… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Abstracting Away the Complexity of ArgoCD | Andre Jay Marcelo-Tanner | 10m |
Shows an open source GitHub Action called GitOps push that automates creating ArgoCD apps and manifests so developers never touch an ApplicationSet or App and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Pushing GitOps To the Edge (Literally) | Carson Culler | 11m |
Argo CD keeps desired state but loses that guarantee when clusters go offline; this solution mirrors upstream repos to a git mirror colocated with Argo… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Using Multiple Repos for an Argo CD Application? It’s Not as... | Anjelica Ambrosio | 08m |
Claims that a multi-repo Argo CD setup is practical and scalable, using the App of Apps pattern where a parent application lists child apps that each point to… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Katie Lamkin-Fulsher | 01m |
Brief closing notes confirm ArgoCon NA 2025 wraps up after a full schedule and thanks attendees for showing up, with remarks kept intentionally short. The… | ||
| Project Update: Argo Project Velocity | Dan Garfield | 16m |
Project reports Argo adoption at roughly two thirds of Kubernetes users, 43,000 repo stars and ~20% annual growth with a goal of 50,000. Helm charts are now… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Unlocking GitOps at Intuit: Scalable, Reliable Environment Promoti... | M. Crenshaw | 06m |
Intuit manages over 20,000 applications and finds 67% of teams using manual scripts or Jenkins for environment promotion which forces turning autosync off. The… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Argo CD: Bridging GitOps and DevOps | Colin Bowern | 06m |
Don't miss out! Join us at our next Flagship Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23-26 March, 2026). Connect with our… | ||
| Lightning Talk: The GitOps Armada: Set Sail With Kubernetes Fleet Automation | Netanel Kadosh | 09m |
Claims a fleet of Kubernetes clusters across AWS/GCP/Azure or on‑prem comes up in under 10 minutes, demonstrated with a live flow where Terraform provisions… | ||
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