GitOpsCon Europe 2025
as the organisers put it
Virtual Event - GitOpsCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on GitOps and it’s adoption within organizations.
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, security engineers, infrastructure engineers, engineering managers
topics
Argo CD multi-cluster management; Flux event-driven reconciliation; Terraform and Argo CD integration; policy-as-code for compliance; image signing and scanning; webhook receivers with HMAC; GitOps testing with vcluster and Testkube; patterns for passing Terraform outputs; reconciliation lag and rollbacks; admission controllers with Kyverno and Falco
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Declarative by Default, Secure by Design: GitOps as a Control Plane for Governance | Andrew Martin | 30m |
GitOps becomes a universal control plane: git as single source of truth, Flux and Argo CD continuously reconcile cluster state, and a recently released MCP… | ||
| GitOps for Skeptics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Repo | Ryan Etten | 28m |
Starts with a pilot: an internal microservice moved to a repo watched by Argo CD in Argo CD preview mode so diffs are visible but not applied, drift is… | ||
| The Seven Deadly Sins of GitOps | Koray Oksay, Cansu Kavili Ornek | 28m |
Seven specific failure modes for GitOps are named and actionable: misplacing trust in repo state (observability on day zero), blindly copying other orgs… | ||
| Push, Wait...Nothing? Let's Talk GitOps Reliability | Kingdon Patrick Barrett | |
Explains how Flux 2.6 uses receivers and event-driven reconciliation to avoid wasteful polling and shorten feedback loops, showing image update automation with… | ||
| GitOps Lifecycle Management | Jason Morgan | 26m |
Argues for combining pull-based GitOps (Flux reconciles manifests from a git branch) with push-based GitOps (Terraform/Ansible bootstrap non‑K8s infra) and a… | ||
| Secure by Design: Embedding DevSecOps into Your GitOps Workflows | Arpit Nigam | 27m |
Shows a concrete GitOps architecture: central Argo CD management for 25+ clusters, 85% fewer CVEs after adding image signing and scans. CI pipelines run… | ||
| Build a GitOps-Powered Kubernetes Testing Machin... | Kelly Revenaugh, Cortney Nickerson, Ole Lensmar | 26m |
A GitOps pipeline uses GitHub Actions to spin up a vcluster, Argo CD to sync manifests, Testkube to orchestrate tests, Kyverno ChainSaw for policy checks and… | ||
| Take the Best of Both Worlds Using Terraform and Argo CD | Kostis Kapelonis | 29m |
Four concrete patterns emerge for passing Terraform outputs to Argo CD with trade offs. Use DNS hostnames so apps get stable names without passing values but… | ||
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