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Eliminating Hidden Argo CD Pitfalls in Your GitOps Workflow

As teams rapidly adopt Argo CD and embrace GitOps-based delivery, they often get off to a strong start—but gradually accumulate structural and architectural issues. While these problems may appear harmless initially, they can slowly degrade developer productivity, reduce system clarity and ultimately weaken the core advantages of GitOps.

This session highlights some of the common anti-patterns, such as:
  • Dynamically creating Argo CD Applications
  • Defining Applications instead of leveraging ApplicationSets
  • Using Helm to package Applications rather than ApplicationSets
  • Embedding hardcoded Helm values directly within Argo CD Applications

And more.

Lernziele

You learn,

  • how to identify structural issues that creep into your Argo CD setups,
  • why ApplicationSets are a more scalable and maintainable,
  • how to keep your GitOps workflows architecturally clean.

Speaker

 

Regina (Reggie)  Voloshin
Regina (Reggie) Voloshin started her journey with K8s and DevOps at 2018, she was then a member of a DevOps Team and introduced GitOps and Argo CD to Bank Hapoalim. Later she started leading the Cloud Platform Team and contributing to Argo CD, co-authored the CNCF Argo Project certification and became a CNCF Ambassador. She joined Octopus Deploy at 2024, where she became an Argo CD maintainer. Reggie is the top Argo CD contributor for the last 6 months.
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