CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Speakers

Katie Lamkin-Fulsher

Staff Product Manager of Platform and Open Source, Intuit

Katie Lamkin is a Staff Product Manager of Platform and Open Source at Intuit, who works with application development teams to achieve operational excellence through CICD platforms and progressive delivery strategies. Katie has been a Cloud Architect and held Engineering Management... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

09:05 BST

ArgoCon | Project Updates - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:05 - 09:10 BST

Speakers

Dan Garfield

Argo Maintainer, Open GitOps Co-Creator, VP Open Source, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Dan Garfield is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. As an Argo Maintainer, he works parmiarily on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. He helped create the GitOps Working Group and Open GitOps Principles. He helped create the... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:05 - 09:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

09:20 BST

ArgoCon | Project Updates

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:20 - 09:40 BST

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:20 - 09:40 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

09:50 BST

Sponsored Keynote: GitOps Promotion Across Multi-cloud and Edge - Christian Hernandez, Akuity

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:50 - 09:55 BST

In this session we present best practices around advanced cloud-native application delivery and different GitOps promotion strategies across multi-cloud and edge. Whether you are a Platform Engineer, an Application Developer, or DevOps, this session will share the insights gained from the co-creators of the Argo project.

Speakers

Christian Hernandez

Head of Community, Akuity

Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and product management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. He is currently... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:50 - 09:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

10:00 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Why We Are Betting on Argo - Colin Bowern, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:00 - 10:05 BST

Just like Kubernetes, Argo is deploying and winning everywhere, in the datacenter, behind the firewall, and at the edge. In our experience, we’ve seen every kind of deployment imaginable (and some that would truly surprise you) and we’ll share patterns for success along with what we’re doing to keep Argo working securely in all these diverse use cases.

Speakers

Colin Bowern

SVP, Product, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Colin is a passionate technical leader interested in product, delivery, and engineering of modern apps and services.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:00 - 10:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

10:15 BST

AM Break 1

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:15 - 10:40 BST

TBA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:15 - 10:40 BST
TBA

Breaks

Event + Breaks ArgoCon, CiliumCon

10:40 BST

Defining SLOs and SLIs for ArgoCD: A Metrics-Driven Approach To Observability - Eve Ben Ezra & Serhiy Martynenko, The New York Times

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

ArgoCD offers an extensive set of metrics that provide invaluable insights into its health and performance. However, as of now, there are no standardized guidelines or recommendations for defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) or Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for ArgoCD. SLOs serve as a critical foundation for ensuring the reliability and quality of ArgoCD services, guiding teams to proactively address issues before they impact users.

In this talk, we will:
- Explore the wealth of metrics provided by ArgoCD components (API server, application controller, repo server, and more).
What is an SLO / SLI
- Propose actionable SLOs and SLIs tailored to ArgoCD operations, such as deployment success rates, reconciliation time, and resource health checks.
- Demonstrate how these SLOs can help identify early signs of service degradation, enabling teams to maintain high service quality.

Speakers

Eve Ben Ezra

Software Engineer, The New York Times

Eve Ben Ezra is a Software Engineer with The New York Times Company. Coming from a data and mathematics background, Eve has built a career on using logic to apply solutions to broad business problems while considering necessary outliers. In their free time, Eve makes jokes about kubernetes... Read More →

Serhiy Martynenko

Senior Software Engineer, The New York Times

HI! I'm a Ukrainian who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. My team at The New York Times is responsible for Application Delivery experience of engineers. We are part of Delivery Engineering - group of teams who build Internal Developer Platform called DVSP. Prior to The New York... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

ArgoCon, Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

10:40 BST

Progressive Delivery With Argo Rollouts and Kubernetes Gateway API for Multi-Directional Traffic - Lin Sun, solo.io

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

With the growing maturity of the Kubernetes Gateway API and the Argo Rollouts plugin for Gateway API, it's now easier than ever to integrate Argo Rollouts with any traffic provider that implements the Gateway API. This allows you to automate progressive delivery decisions based on custom HTTP metrics. While most traffic providers focus on north-south traffic, some now offer seamless support for both north-south and east-west traffic patterns.

In this demo-driven session, we’ll explore how to use Argo Rollouts and the Kubernetes Gateway API to control traffic for both north-south and east-west directions without requiring application restarts. By leveraging Istio Ambient Mesh and HTTP metrics, we’ll dynamically monitor application health to drive progressive delivery decisions.

Speakers

Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source, solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Progressive Delivery

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

11:15 BST

Automated Resilience: Using Argo Events for Real-Time Incident Remediation - Darko Janjić, Pipekit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

In today’s dynamic cloud environments, system reliability is crucial, and downtime can be costly. Automated remediation powered by Argo Events introduces a paradigm shift in incident response, enabling real-time detection and resolution of issues. This session dives into how Argo Events can be leveraged to build event-driven workflows that automatically remediate failures, minimizing downtime and human intervention.

Attendees will learn:
- The architecture and capabilities of Argo Events.
- How to integrate Argo Events with other Kubernetes-native tools for seamless automation.
- Real-world examples of automated remediation pipelines.
- Best practices for ensuring secure and effective event-driven automation.

Whether you're managing microservices, Kubernetes clusters, or CI/CD pipelines, this session will equip you with the knowledge to improve system reliability through automation.

Speakers

Darko Janjić

Senios Software Engineer, Pipekit

Darko is a Senior Software Engineer at Pipekit, a control plane for Argo Workflows that enables massive data pipelines in minutes. He has extensive experience with distributed systems, virtualization, and cloud engineering across a variety of industries. Besides engineering, Darko... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

ArgoCon, Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

11:15 BST

Panel: Native OCI Integration - Leveraging Argo CD Source Content in a Brand New Way - Andrew Block & Ishita Sequeira, Red Hat; Michael Crenshaw, Intuit; Blake Pettersson, Akuity; Shiwei Zhang, Microsoft

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:50 BST

One of the most exciting recent enhancements to Argo CD is native OCI (Open Container Initiative) integration support. No longer are you limited to Git or Helm as a storage backend, but Argo CD now natively integrates with a piece of infrastructure you already have available: an OCI registry. And the best part: all of your existing Argo CD content can be reused in a brand new way!

Join members of the Argo CD community that brought native OCI integration to life in this panel session as they share everything that you need to know to effectively take advantage of this new capability.

In particular, they will discuss:

* The development process and community collaboration involved
* The technical details associated with native OCI integration in Argo CD
* The business value and how it unlocks the benefits of Argo CD like never before
* Common methods for managing OCI content including integration into existing workflows
* Examples that you can use to get started in your own environment

Speakers

Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat

Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat that works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reducing the overall... Read More →

Michael Crenshaw

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Michael Crenshaw is a Staff Software Engineer on the Argo CD team at Intuit. He is the most active contributor to the Argo project, focusing on security and performance improvements in Argo CD. He helps maintain Intuit’s ~50 Argo CD instances and ~20k Argo CD applications.

Blake Pettersson

Senior Solutions Architect, Akuity, Akuity

Blake Pettersson is a Senior Solutions Architect at Akuity, where he works making customers successful with Kubernetes and Gitops. He has well over a decade of experience working in the intersection of development and ops, having previously worked for a number of companies in Sweden... Read More →

Shiwei Zhang

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Dr. Shiwei Zhang is a Principal Software Engineering Manager of the Azure Container Registry team in Microsoft. With a Ph.D. degree in the field of cryptography, he specializes in Containers Secure Supply Chain and has applied his expertise by maintaining multiple CNCF projects, including... Read More →

Ishita Sequeira

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Senior Software Engineer

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:50 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

11:40 BST

Lunch Break 1

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:40 - 12:30 BST

TBA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:40 - 12:30 BST
TBA

Breaks

Event + Breaks ArgoCon

12:30 BST

Argo Trivia!

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:30 - 12:50 BST

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:30 - 12:50 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

12:55 BST

A Million Ways To Promote Changes Between Environments - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy & Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST

Argo CD has unlocked a GitOps revolution for deploying and keeping our applications synced. The next big problem to be solved is how to manage promoting changes between environments. CI-driven updates, Image Updater, Progressive Sync, Kargo, Environment and Promotions, and Rendered Manifest Pattern all propose different ways to tackle the basic problem of how to get changes from one environment into another.

In this talk, we’ll review the current state of application promotion across environments and how the different approaches work with pitfalls and benefits. To keep it honest, DevOps grump and professional detractor Viktor Farcic will bring his honest take as we look at the seemingly endless nuances of environment promotion and change management.

Speakers

Dan Garfield

Argo Maintainer, Open GitOps Co-Creator, VP Open Source, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate, Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

12:55 BST

Autoscaling and Progressive Delivery - A Match Made in Heaven - Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group & Kostis Kapelonis, Codefresh by Ocotopus Deploy

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST

Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller for Progressive Delivery deployments. In the most basic scenario, Argo Rollouts supports advanced Kubernetes deployments such as blue/green and canaries. While this is great, the main selling point of a Kubernetes cluster is the autoscaling facilities it offers. Can you use canary deployments while still taking advantage of Horizontal (and Vertical) autoscalers?

The answer is yes! In this talk, we will see how you can combine these two worlds - progressive delivery and autoscaling - and explain how to perform advanced deployments even in the presence of autoscalers.

Speakers

Kostis Kapelonis

Developer Advocate, Octopus Deploy

Kostis is a software engineer/technical-writer dual class character. He lives and breathes automation, good testing practices and stress-free deployments with GitOps.

Anastasiia Gubska

SRE/DevOps Engineer, BT Group

Anastasiia Gubska, a Deaf CNCF Ambassador and SRE/DevOps Engineer at BT Group, develops and implements best practices for software delivery at the UK-based multinational telecommunications company. Passionate about discovering new communities and embracing diverse cultures, Anastasiia... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Progressive Delivery

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

13:30 BST

One Engine To Rule Them All: Unifying Cloud Workloads With Argo Workflows - Sebastian Beyvers, Giessen University

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST

Public cloud providers attract organizations with a promise: every computing service you need, neatly packaged under one roof. Yet those seeking to break free from vendor lock-in and build a sovereign infrastructure face a different reality - navigating a maze of specialized tools: Airflow for data pipelines, SLURM for HPC, Spark for analytics, and a variety of solutions for serverless functions - all using a different interface. We're here to challenge this fragmentation. What if Argo Workflows could be your universal scheduling engine? Through practical examples, we'll demonstrate how the Argo ecosystem - with its container-native workflow engine and robust event system - can consolidate most, if not all, of your compute infrastructure. We'll share our journey of integrating and/or replacing most of our existing scheduling systems with Argo, revealing concrete patterns that preserve workload-specific requirements while drastically simplifying our architecture.

Speakers

Sebastian Beyvers

Distributed Systems Researcher, Giessen University

Sebastian Beyvers is a distributed systems researcher in bioinformatics and a cloud-native Rust developer at Giessen University. Sebastian's current work focuses on cloud-native data storage and processing solutions that try to harmonize existing national and international data ecosystems... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

ArgoCon, Data Processing

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

13:30 BST

Scale GitOps With the Argo CD Agent and Open Cluster Management - August Simonelli, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST

If you’re running a multicluster environment—and really, who isn’t?—you can face challenges scaling deployments across your fleet no matter how big. Agent-based solutions can often be the best option to solve this.

The Argo CD Agent is a lightweight solution that helps Argo CD deployments scale more easily. The agent is quite notable in that it doesn’t require a permanent network connection and is lightweight and extensible allowing workload clusters to stay autonomous. In this session we will take a technical deep dive into the agent architecture.

We will demonstrate how to deploy the agent using the implementation of the Sig-Multicluster specification found in the Open Cluster Manager (OCM-io) project. Using OCM-io’s Add-on framework and the Argo CD Agent you’ll see how these two community tools and open standards help you with managing your GitOps at scale more reliably.

Speakers

August Simonelli

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

August Simonelli is a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat. He has worked with customers around the world to help them adopt, use, improve, and implement open source technologies. Raised in Boulder, Colorado, August now lives in Sydney, Australia and is a strong advocate for using... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

14:05 BST

Argo CD Ephemeral Access in Action: Lessons Learned While Running at Scale - Leonardo Luz Almeida & Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Intuit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST

Building on the foundations of Argo CD UI ephemeral access introduced in our previous talk, this session takes a deeper dive into implementing and configuring this extension and fine-grained RBAC in production environments. While the initial focus was on mitigating risks associated with powerful actions in the Argo CD UI, scaling these practices in production has revealed new challenges, unexpected complexities, and opportunities for refinement.
If you’re curious about the practicalities of running ephemeral access and fine-grained RBAC in production or eager to learn how to refine your own approaches, this talk will provide valuable insights and actionable takeaways. Join us to continue the conversation on enhancing safety, compliance, and efficiency in dynamic, high-stakes environments.

Speakers

Katie Lamkin-Fulsher

Staff Product Manager of Platform and Open Source, Intuit

Leonardo Luz Almeida

Staff Software Developer, Intuit

Leo is a staff member of the core Argo team at Intuit responsible for improving and operating Argo CD and Argo Rollouts in the company. He is an active Argo maintainer sharing his time between open-source and internal development. Leo is passionate about native cloud applications... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

14:05 BST

Argo Workflow Templates: A Practical Deep-Dive - Tim Collins, Pipekit & Becky Pauley, Jetstack Consult

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST

If you are starting out on your Argo Workflows journey, you’ll soon find yourself surrounded by the word ‘template’. Templates are a fundamental cornerstone of an Argo Workflow and allow you to define the work to be performed.

In this talk, we'll explore the versatile world of Argo Workflow template types. We'll break down the different types, demystifying their use cases and best practices. While container templates are widely used and referenced in the documentation, we'll delve into the lesser-known but equally powerful template types such as the http template, container sets and resource templates.

Along the way, we’ll also tackle common misconceptions - including the surprising difference between a workflowTemplate and a Workflow Template.

Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the world of Argo Workflows, expect to leave with a deeper understanding of Workflow Templates - ready to apply their versatility and power to solve complex workflow challenges.

Speakers

Tim Collins

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Pipekit

Tim is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Pipekit, a control plane for Argo Workflows that enables massive data pipelines in minutes, saving engineering time and cloud spend. He has a keen interest in open source technologies and is an active member of the Argo community, often found... Read More →

Becky Pauley

Solutions Engineer, Jetstack Consult

A self-taught engineer and career changer, I finally made the leap from teaching to tech three years ago. I’ve since worked in various Platform and Cloud Engineering roles, with a focus on Kubernetes best practices and Cost-Optimisation. As well as all things Cloud Native, I’m... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Data Processing

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

14:40 BST

Multi Cluster Magics With Argo CD and Cluster Inventory - Nick Eberts, Google & Christian Hernandez, Akuity

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

You probably have more than one cluster and there is a decent chance you are using Argo CD. Additionally, it is quite likely that you have a few other variations of Kubernetes cluster lists. We posit that writing glue code to stitch together these clusters lists is not an awesome use of your time. Thankfully the good folks in SIG-Multicluster built this super cool api for cluster lists, cluster profile/cluster inventory! We are going to show you how to use said fancy new list with Argo CD along with other multi-cluster tools across Kubernetes clusters hosted by different providers. There will be demos. Possibly Mustaches. And a decent amount of awful puns. So come on down to bear witness to some sweet multi-cluster abstractions that will surely get your heart rate up.

Speakers

Nick Eberts

Product Manager, Google

Nick is currently the product manager for GKE Fleets & Teams focusing on multi-cluster capabilities that streamline GCP customers experience while building platforms on GKE. He also is a Kubernetes contributor, participates in SIG-Multicluster, and has been part of the community since... Read More →

Christian Hernandez

Head of Community, Akuity

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

14:40 BST

Set It To Auto: Using Argo CD Autopilot To Simplify Everything

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

How do you bootstrap Argo CD? Is it Terraform? Kubectl apply? Or have you set it to auto with Autopilot? Installing Argo CD to play around is easy but setting it up for a scalable, well-organized, and well-managed software delivery experience requires know-how and a bit of elbow grease. In this session, we’ll show how Argo CD Autopilot works and can serve as the basis for your GitOps pattern. This has benefits like easy disaster recovery, better user experience, more predictability in organization and adoption, and an overall streamlined experience.

But Autopilot is just the beginning! It’s easy to customize (with or without a K) and set up to do much more than what you get out of the box. Don’t reinvent the wheel, it’s time to use autopilot.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

15:05 BST

PM Break 2

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:05 - 15:20 BST

TBA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:05 - 15:20 BST
TBA

Event + Breaks ArgoCon, BackstageCon, Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, Observability Day, Platform Engineering Day

15:20 BST

Scaling Argo CD: From Symptoms To Solution - Alexandre Gaudreault, Intuit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Have you ever found yourself increasing the Argo CD controller CPU? Give it more memory? The answer is most likely yes, multiple times! But there comes a time when enough is enough. In this talk, we will go over as many scalability symptoms as possible, understand why they happen and how to mitigate them. You will learn that most of the time, increasing the resources is only a temporary fix. Our goal will be to dive deeper into each problem to find the underlying root cause, and apply a solution that addresses the problem at its source to have a lasting fix.
CPU consumption, reconciliation cycles, operation queues, cluster watches, monorepos and much more are on the agenda.

Speakers

Alexandre Gaudreault

Senior Software Developer & Argo CD Maintainer, Intuit

Alexandre is a Senior Software Developer at Intuit working on the core Argo team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD. He thrives on building internal developer platforms using open-source technologies to increase development velocity. Outside of work, you may... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

15:20 BST

The Hidden Dangers of Defaults: Securing Multi-Tenant Argo CD Installations - Regina Voloshin, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy & Dag Bjerre Andersen, Doubble ApS

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

As companies expand their usage of Argo CD and its powerful UI, robust security in multi-tenant environments becomes critical. Thus, misconfiguring Argo CD can lead to significant security vulnerabilities.

This session will provide a technical deep dive into securing Argo CD installations for multi-tenant environments. We’ll examine the building blocks for establishing effective security controls—like Application Projects, security policies, and user roles—and highlight best practices for defining access controls using Argo CD’s RBAC policies, and restricting deployments to specific clusters and namespaces and structuring Application Projects.

Through real-world examples, Argo CD admins will learn to configure their installations securely, manage permissions, and tailor the environment to meet organizational needs without compromising usability or productivity. The talk will also provide practical strategies to avoid common pitfalls in permission management.

Speakers

Regina Voloshin

OSS Tech Lead, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Regina is a GitOps fan, an ArgoCD maintainer and a CNCF Ambassador. She is working with K8s and its eco-system extensively during the last 6 years. She is also a public speaker.

Dag Bjerre Andersen

Infrastructure Engineer, Doubble ApS

Dag is an Infrastructure Engineer at Doubble. He is passionate about nearly everything related to Kubernetes and has worked extensively with Argo CD, Flux, and Kubernetes over the past few years

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

15:50 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Extending Argo CD CLI Functionality With Plugin Support: Build Your Custom Plugins Now! - Nitish Kumar, Akuity

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:50 - 16:00 BST

The Argo CD CLI has been a cornerstone for managing GitOps workflows, but until now, it lacked support for extending its capabilities through plugins. This talk introduces plugin support to the ArgoCD CLI, enabling users to create custom plugins and use them as subcommands, extending the ArgoCD CLI functionality like kubectl.

In this talk, we’ll demonstrate the new plugin system’s real-world application by showcasing a plugin we developed: mta (Migrate to Argo CD). This plugin bridges the gap between Flux and Argo CD by exporting Flux components into Argo CD-compatible Custom Resources (CRs), simplifying migrations from Flux to Argo CD.

Speakers

Nitish Kumar

Software Engineer, Akuity

Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity and a CNCF Ambassador. In the past, Nitish has served as a Linux Foundation Mentee under the Kubernetes Release Engineering Team, where he built a library that is used by the Kubernetes project internally. Nitish has given various talks in the... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:50 - 16:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

15:50 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Scaling Time Series Analysis With Argo Workflows: Patterns and Practices - Anjelica Ambrosio, Akuity

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:50 - 16:00 BST

Time series data is exploding across industries - from IoT sensors and financial markets to application monitoring and user behavior analytics. As organizations grapple with processing these massive datasets, many overlook a powerful solution hiding in plain sight: Argo Workflows. This talk demonstrates how Argo Workflows transforms time series analysis from a resource-intensive challenge into a streamlined, scalable process in Kubernetes environments.

We'll dive deep into real-world architectures that leverage Argo Workflows' DAG-based execution model for efficient time series processing. You'll learn practical patterns for data partitioning, parallel processing, and resource optimization that we've battle-tested with petabyte-scale datasets. Through live demos and code examples, we'll explore how to build resilient pipelines that can handle everything from real-time sensor data to historical trend analysis.

Speakers

Anjelica Ambrosio

Technical Evangelist, Akuity

Anjelica Ambrosio is a Technical Evangelist at Akuity, where she creates educational content for developers, including guides and tutorials on GitOps, Argo CD, and Kargo. She can simplify complex technical concepts across all skill levels.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:50 - 16:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Data Processing

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:05 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Are You Sure It Works? Double Check Your Workflow Spec With Validating Webhooks - Will Wang, Bloomberg

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:05 - 16:15 BST

Workflow specs can be pretty complicated, involving references to many different templates and WorkflowTemplates with nested container or script definitions. Outside of using argo lint, how do you make sure your complicated Workflow definition is valid and legit? The community has raised similar questions/concerns in Issue #13503.

In this talk, we'd like to share how we utilize Kubernetes' Validating Webhooks and Argo Workflow's validating function to address this concern to make sure every Argo Workflow resource submitted into our system not only uses valid specifications, but also references valid templates with the correct parameters.

Speakers

Will Wang

Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Will Wang is a software engineer at Bloomberg. He has worked on the Workflow Runtimes engineering team since July 2021, where he is focused on building a platform that offers Workflow Orchestration as a Service using Argo Workflows. In his prior job, Will spent most of his time building... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:05 - 16:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:05 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mitigating Privilege Escalation in Multi-Tenant Argo CD - Anand Francis Joseph, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:05 - 16:15 BST

Argo CD supports a multi-tenant operation model. Cluster scoped Argo CD instance is the widely used approach wherein it uses a single service account to manage resources across multiple tenant namespaces and this brings in the security challenge of privilege escalation. When a cluster scoped Argo CD instance is used to manage resources across multiple tenant namespaces, it violates the principle of "least privilege" providing escalated privileges to all the tenants.

In this talk we will be looking at some of the best practices for handling privilege escalation in multi-tenant scenarios and how the recent feature of decoupling application syncs using a service account per tenant can be a real game changer in improving the security posture of Argo CD for mult-tenant scenarios.

Speakers

Anand Francis Joseph

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Have around 17 years of Industry experience. Contributed to several open source projects like Verrazzano, ArgoCD, GlassFish JavaEE, JavaEE TCK.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:05 - 16:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:20 BST

Argo at Scale: Navigating Complex Multi-Dimensional Deployments Across Hundreds of Clusters - Carlos Santana, AWS & Mike Tougeron, Adobe

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST

In order to manage a Kubernetes fleet of more than 400 clusters across 7 different types of cloud providers in over 22 regions, Adobe’s Kubernetes team has embraced GitOps at a massive scale. Leveraging Cluster API (CAPI), Amazon Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Prometheus and other Kubernetes controllers, fleet management was changed from a heavy burden to a tactical advantage. This talk covers what are top learnings of using GitOps in a way that is able to be used in production across a large organization, integrating CNCF projects have helped them scale the operations with a relatively small staff of engineers. You’ll see how through an exclusively open source toolchain Adobe was able to deploy thousands of changes a month, safely, securely, and with confidence.

Speakers

Mike Tougeron

Lead Cloud Engineer / Architect, Adobe

With a passion for automation and developer engagement, Mike works on continuously improving development pipelines to take the complication out of managing services on large-scale infrastructure across multi-cloud Kubernetes environments. Mike is a lazy programmer who'd rather write... Read More →

Carlos Santana

Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS leading Container solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization (AppMod). He is experienced in distributed cloud application architecture, emerging technologies, open source, serverless, devops. kubernetes, gitops. He is CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:20 BST

Continuous Delivery & Resource Health for SpinKube/WASM Applications With ArgoCD - Luke Philips, The New York Times & Radu Matei, Fermyon

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST

As WebAssembly (WASM) and serverless technologies like SpinKube gain traction, they introduce new paradigms for lightweight, fast, and secure application deployments. However, the unique characteristics of SpinKube/WASM applications—such as custom resource definitions (CRDs) and unconventional health signals—pose challenges for Continuous Delivery.

In this talk, we’ll explore how to leverage ArgoCD to seamlessly deliver SpinKube-based WASM applications. We will demonstrate how ArgoCD’s built-in and custom health checks can monitor resource health, ensure smooth deployments, and surface critical insights for SpinKube workloads. Key takeaways include:

- How to integrate SpinKube/WASM applications with ArgoCD for Continuous Delivery.
- Practical examples of creating custom health checks for CRDs or non-standard resource types

Join us to discover how combining SpinKube and ArgoCD simplifies and scales Continuous Delivery for next-generation serverless applications.

Speakers

Radu Matei

Chief Technology Officer, Fermyon

Radu is the co-founder and CTO of Fermyon, building the next generation of cloud computing using WebAssembly. He is passionate about WebAssembly, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence. In the past he worked at Microsoft Azure in the DeisLabs research and development team... Read More →

Luke Philips

Staff Software Engineer, The New York Times

Luke Philips is a Staff Engineer and Software A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Custodian with The New York Times Company. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously a long career in Telecom, at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:50 BST

No More Pipelines: Reconciling Environment Promotion Via Commit Statuses With Argo CD - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 BST

We’ve learned to think of environment promotion in terms of deployment pipelines. But in the age of Kubernetes and everything-declarative, we need to abandon the imperative pipeline mode of thinking. According to the Kubernetes model, environment state should be declared, and an operator ought to drive towards that state. To achieve this, we need GitOps Promoter and its CommitStatus API.

GitOps Promoter is a new environment promotion tool that adheres strictly to GitOps principles. Promotions are handled through automated PRs, and promotion gates are implemented as commit statuses. This talk will demonstrate how to use the GitOps Promoter’s CommitStatus API to gate promotions on Argo CD application health. We’ll show how the only prerequisite to enabling a fully declarative GitOps promotion experience is “having an opinion about a commit.”

Speakers

Michael Crenshaw

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Zach Aller

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Zach Aller is a software engineer at Intuit and a lead maintainer of Argo Rollouts. He has 15+ years of software development experience with a strong focus on SRE/Platform tooling. He has a strong background in Kubernetes and has managed large scale Kubernetes clusters for multiple... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:50 BST

Redefining the Multi-Cluster Story of Argo CD - Jann Fischer, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 BST

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.

Speakers

Jann Fischer

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jann Fischer is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he is currently the lead engineering architect for Red Hat’s OpenShift GitOps product. He has two and a half decades of experience with Open Source, software engineering, and operations of large scale application... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Advanced
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

17:15 BST

ArgoCon | Closing Remarks

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:15 - 17:20 BST

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:15 - 17:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A