GitOpsCon North America 2024
2024-04-15
Seattle, United States
[GitOpsCon North America 2021, GitOpsCon North America 2022, GitOpsCon North America 2024, GitOpsCon North America 2025]
who it's for
platform engineers, Argo CD operators, Flux users, kubernetes operators, platform architects, site reliability engineers, cloud engineers, security engineers
topics
Argo Rollouts label injection; Downward API for rollouts; Argo CD sharding and tuning; Flux 2.2 performance improvements; Kustomize build and patches; Crossplane compositions integration with Argo CD; GitOps-driven Kubernetes cluster provisioning; hub-and-spoke Argo CD fleet management; External Secrets with Azure Key Vault; GitOps with OCI artifact workflows; VEX and EPSS exploitability analysis
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks + OpenGitOps Project Updates | Stacey Potter, Christian Hernandez | 20m |
Announcement that the merged GitOps Working Group into OpenGitOps makes the project a single CNCF sandbox repository with governance, docs and active SIGs… | ||
| Progressive Delivery for Micro-Services Using Argo Rollouts and the Downward API | Kostis Kapelonis | 29m |
Shows how to coordinate blue/green and canary across multiple microservices and external resources by combining Argo Rollouts label injection with the… | ||
| Scaling a GitOps Platform at Adobe | Aaren J, Ko Uchiyama | 26m |
Adobe scales a GitOps platform called Flex to manage ~10,000 Kubernetes services across ~350 clusters in 28 geos, using Argo CD and Argo Workflows; the largest… | ||
| What's New with Flux? | Priyanka Ravi | 28m |
Flux 2.2 adds concrete performance and reliability wins: benchmarks show source acquisition and reconcile runs at 100/500/1,000 chart scales, the kustomize… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Gain Platform Superpowers with the KEBAP Stack! | Engin Diri | 12m |
Claims a working reference implementation that stitches KEBAP stack components—Kubernetes, External Secrets Operator, Backstage, Argo CD and Pulumi—into a… | ||
| Empower Developers with GitOps-Driven Kubernetes Cluster Provisioning | Praseeda Sathaye | 23m |
Shows an event-driven GitOps pipeline that provisions an EKS cluster from a Crossplane claim and fully configures it via Argo Events and Argo Workflows, then… | ||
| Understanding Exploitability with VEX, EPSS, and Other Standard Frameworks | Ayse Kaya | 32m |
Claim: CVE volumes are exploding — projecting 50,000 CVEs in NVD in 2025 (~136/day) — while NVD already nears 250,000 entries and KEV lists only a few hundred… | ||
| GitOps: Keeping It Light, Bright, and Deployed Right with OpenShift! | Meha Bhalodiya, Dheeraj Singh Jodha | 30m |
Explains how OpenShift GitOps bundles Argo CD as an operator (installed via OLM) to manage app delivery and cluster config with Argo CD watching Git repos and… | ||
| Accelerating GitOps Adoption with Flux | Ed Boykin | 29m |
CoreCard rewrites 20-year-old payment software to Kubernetes microservices, implements GitOps with Flux and Terraform, and removes secrets from source using… | ||
| Ease the Pain of Platform Engineers with Argo CD by Leveraging Kustomize Templates | Pratik Singh | 14m |
Platform engineers use Argo CD plus Kustomize templates to cut repetitive YAML and speed onboarding, with concrete commands like kustomize build and kustomize… | ||
| Continuous Delivery: The Missing Piece in the GitOps-OCI Security Puzzle | Sushrut Athavale | 21m |
Claims that Continuous Delivery fills the GitOps‑OCI trust gap by automating artifact‑to‑git workflows and adding runtime verification. Implementation uses… | ||
| Sinking Atlantis – How Breaking up Our Infrastructure Monorepos Saved Us from Pull Request Purgatory | Donnie Laughton | 35m |
Recursion breaks a single infra monorepo that funnels Terraform changes through Atlantis and an engineering gate into per-team bounded context repos, replacing… | ||
| Empowering the GitOps Future with AI | Guangya Liu | 24m |
Combines generative LLMs with GitOps to automate actions: a Launching agent calls the Kubernetes API, asks a fine‑tuned model which deployments to scale… | ||
| Scaling Kubernetes Fleet Management Using GitOps Bridge | Blake Romano, Carlos Santana | 31m |
Shows a repeatable pattern called GitOps Bridge that takes Pulumi outputs and writes them into Argo CD cluster secrets so Argo uses those values for Helm… | ||
| Kubernetes as a Platform Framework: Journey from IaC Pipelines to K8s APIs | Christina Andonov | 35m |
Organizations face a months‑long bottleneck (often quoted as 6–12 months) when platform teams manage cloud resources; converting Kubernetes from a container… | ||
| Lightning Talk: DORA metrics in a GitOps World: Conflict or Conflux? | Ram Iyengar | 06m |
DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time to change, change failure rate, mean time to recovery) map cleanly to GitOps CI/CD tooling like kops for… | ||
| GitOps Pipelines: Everything Everywhere All at Once | Christian Hernandez | 33m |
Claims a declarative layer (Kargo) that coordinates multi-stage GitOps pipelines across Argo CD and Flux, grouping artifacts into Freight and Warehouse… | ||
| Extending Argo CD with Health Checks and Resource Actions | Gerald Nunn | 25m |
Extends Argo CD by adding Lua-based health checks and resource actions placed in argocd-cm, with a local dev loop using argocd CLI to run checks against YAML… | ||
| GitOps, the Final Frontier: Proposing, Promoting, and Reverting | Michael Crenshaw, Omer Azmon | 31m |
Intuit presents an opinionated GitOps workflow that adds propose, promote, revert to continuous reconciliation, running across 2,000 services with ~44,000 Argo… | ||
| Don't GitOps Into a Blackhole | Rakshit Gondwal | 20m |
Keptn proves a concrete GitOps extension: CRDs define pre-deploy CPU >1 check and post-deploy tasks so deployments block or warn based on live metrics. A demo… | ||
| May the GitOps Be with You: Conquering Network ACL Challenges | Tushar Gupta | 19m |
Describes a concrete GitOps pipeline that treats ACLs as code in git, generates platform-specific ACLs from high-level policies using capira or earon… | ||
| How Integrating ArgoCD with Crossplane Compositions Enabled a Unified GitOps Workf... | Vaibhav Chopra | 20m |
Integration ties ArgoCD and Crossplane so Git commits create both app and cloud resources: ArgoCD acts as the ArgoCD control plane watching repos and deploying… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Christian Hernandez | 02m |
Sponsors q and code fresh fund the event and underwrite giveaways — one attendee wins AirPods. Session recordings will be uploaded and links are distributed… | ||
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