ArgoCon Europe 2026

Presenters Steve Fenton Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 GitOps Report Exclusive: How Does Argo CD Stack Up Against the World? 🌍🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Steve Fenton here, and I’m absolutely thrilled to share some exclusive insights from the latest State of GitOps Report. While the full report is a treasure trove of information on GitOps practices and principles, I’ve dug into the data to bring you a special, never-before-seen comparison: how Argo CD fares against all other GitOps solutions out there. Get ready for some eye-opening results! ...

Presenters Alan Clucas Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Supercharging Argo Workflows: The Power of Artifact Driver Plugins In the world of cloud-native orchestration, data is king. Whether you are passing machine learning models between steps or saving logs for compliance, how you handle artifacts defines the efficiency of your pipelines. At a recent talk, Alan Clucas, a maintainer of Argo Workflows from PipeKit, unveiled a game-changing feature: Artifact Driver Plugins. ...

Presenters Carlos Santana Elamaran Shanmugam Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Scaling Beyond the Cluster: Mastering Cross-Cluster Progressive Delivery with Argo and AI In the fast-paced world of platform engineering, success often brings a new set of headaches. As platform teams become experts at provisioning clusters, application teams immediately demand more. Whether it is 50 clusters or hundreds, the challenge shifts from how do I build a cluster? to how do I orchestrate application rollouts across a global fleet? ...

Presenters Regina Voloshin Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Stop Doing GitOps Wrong: 5 Argo CD Pitfalls and How to Fix Them GitOps starts as a dream. You install Argo CD, deploy your first few applications, and the team feels unstoppable. But fast forward six months, and many organizations find themselves staring at a tangled mess that refuses to scale. Regina Voloshin, an Argo CD maintainer at Octopus Deploy and a top contributor for the last 6 months, identifies the hidden traps that turn a clean setup into a maintenance nightmare. With only 3 women among 35 maintainers in the project, Regina brings a crucial perspective on how to build sustainable, developer-friendly delivery pipelines. ...

Presenters Anastasiia Gubska Chase UK Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Breaking the Chains: Mastering Progressive Delivery for Stateful Applications 🚀 In the fast-paced world of software engineering, we often treat stateless applications like royalty. They scale easily, they roll back without a fuss, and they love Canary releases. But the moment a database enters the room, everything gets complicated. Anastasiia Gubska, a Lead Software Engineer at Chase UK and the first deaf CNCF ambassador, recently took the stage to solve one of the most persistent headaches in DevOps: how to perform progressive delivery when your application is tied to a database. Using British Sign Language (BSL) and a live demo, she mapped out a journey to decouple database schemas from application deployments. ...