Cloud

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. ...

Presenters Nitish Kumar Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Level Up Your Argo CD Contributions: A Guide to Local Development If you have ever considered contributing to the Argo CD project, you might have felt overwhelmed by the initial setup. At a recent talk, Nitish Kumar, a Software Engineer at Akuity, Argo CD maintainer, and CNCF Ambassador, shared his expert insights on streamlining the local development process. Argo CD is a powerful, distributed system, but its complexity can make local development feel like a daunting task. Nitish breaks down how to move from a “painful” manual workflow to a seamless, automated experience using modern tools. ...

Presenters Vanshika Jain Aditya Soni Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 The $10,000 Mistake: Taming Argo CD’s Phantom Syncs for Scalability 🚀 Ever feel like your systems are working overtime, even when they don’t need to? It’s a common problem in the tech world, and it can lead to significant performance drains and unnecessary costs. Today, we’re diving deep into a real-world scenario where a team tackled a costly issue with Argo CD’s repo server by eliminating “phantom syncs” and optimizing its architecture. ...

Presenters Anastasiia Gubska Julia Furst Morgado Joe Fuller Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Get ready to dive into the future of deployments! 🚀 We recently had the incredible opportunity to join Anastasiia Gubska from Chase UK, Julia Furst Morgado from Dash0, and Joe Fuller from Buoyant, as they illuminated the path to self-healing progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts and Linkerd. This isn’t just about faster deployments; it’s about making them smarter, safer, and self-sufficient. ...