Argo CD: Previewing Pull Request Changes in SECONDS! - Dag Bjerre Andersen & Sergey Shevchenko

Presenters Dag Bjerre Andersen Sergey Shevchenko Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Say Goodbye to GitOps Guesswork: Preview Your Pull Request Changes in Seconds! 🚀 Ever stared at a pull request filled with Kubernetes YAML, Helm charts, or Kustomize patches and felt a cold dread? You’re not alone. As a developer or reviewer, you often hope those changes work, because mentally parsing templates to predict the final cluster state is, quite frankly, impossible. This “approve and pray” approach is a silent killer of confidence in GitOps. ...

March 24, 2026 · 6 min

ArgoCon l Sponsored Keynote: Argo CD vs the World - Steve Fenton, Octopus Deploy

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! ...

March 24, 2026 · 4 min

Bring Your Own Artifact Driver To Workflows - Alan Clucas, Pipekit

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. ...

March 24, 2026 · 5 min

Cross-Cluster Progressive Delivery: Rolling Out Apps With Arg... Carlos Santana & Elamaran Shanmugam

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? ...

March 24, 2026 · 5 min

Declarative...ish? Fixing Hidden Argo CD Pitfalls in Your GitOps Setup - Regina Voloshin

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. ...

March 24, 2026 · 5 min