CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

As we deploy, operate and manage an ever growing amount of clusters, and extend our cloud native applications to (far) edge locations, across regions, data centers, and environments, the current multi-cluster architecture of Argo CD is hitting its limits. To face this challenge we need to be ambitious: let’s revolutionize the multi-cluster story of Argo CD and enable it to scale out to the edge, all while keeping a central control plane.

In this talk, we will discover the new community-driven Argoproj-Labs project argocd-agent, that inverts the paradigm of the current Argo CD multi-cluster architecture; instead of having Argo CD connect to the clusters it manages, it lets those clusters connect to Argo CD through an agent.

Looking at some of the challenges and caveats that you face with the current multi-cluster architecture in Argo CD, we’ll explore how the agent model can improve scalability, reliability and security for large-scale Argo CD multi-cluster setups.