Security

Presenters Ram Mohan Rao Chukka Shibi Ramachandran Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Beyond Basic GitOps: Adding Intelligence to Argo CD with AI 🧠✨ Ever had a production incident that made you question your automation? We’ve all been there. Imagine this: a Friday afternoon, pager duty fires, and your payment service is down. The culprit? A well-intentioned SRE scaling replicas to handle a traffic spike. Argo CD, doing exactly what it’s told, detects this “configuration drift” and reverts the changes, bringing your application crashing down. 💥 This is the scenario Shibi Ramachandran (Senior Software Engineer at ING) and Ram Mohan Rao Chukka (Senior Software Engineer at JFrog) explored at Argo Con, diving deep into how to inject intelligence into GitOps and Argo CD. ...

Presenters Alfonso Ming Meritxell Rodríguez Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 From Anxiety to Autonomy: Revolutionizing Deployments at a Global Scale 🌍 In the fast-paced world of tech, deploying new features and updates can often feel like a high-stakes gamble. For a massive corporation serving over 100 million users, this process was once fraught with manual toil and the ever-present fear of production failures. But a remarkable transformation has occurred, shifting their deployment strategy from a source of constant anxiety to one of peace of mind. Join us as we dive into the journey of how they embraced Argo CD and the GitOps model to achieve unprecedented agility and reliability. ...

Presenters John Keates Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Unifying the Chaos: How Veon Breto Group Mastered Workflows with Argo 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt like your company’s workflows are a tangled mess of legacy systems, custom scripts, and a hundred different ways to do the same thing? If so, you’re not alone. John Keates from the Veon Breto Group, a major e-commerce retail player in the Netherlands and neighboring countries, knows this pain all too well. His recent talk peeled back the curtain on how his team tackled this colossal challenge, moving from workflow anarchy to a streamlined, GitOps-driven, Argo-powered paradise. ...

Presenters Tim Collins Becky Pauley Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Mastering Argo Workflows: Essential Dos and Don’ts for Scalability, Security, and Sanity 🚀 Argo Workflows is a powerhouse for orchestrating complex processes within your Kubernetes cluster. But like any powerful tool, it comes with its own set of nuances. Becky Pauley from Tailscale and Tim Collins, an Argo maintainer from Pipekit, recently shared invaluable insights into navigating the common pitfalls and unlocking the true potential of Argo Workflows. This post distills their expert advice into actionable dos and don’ts, covering everything from fundamental misunderstandings to advanced scaling and security strategies. ...

Presenters Andrew Block Blake Pettersson Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Unlocking Agnostic Workload Identity in Argo with SPIFFE Inspire: A Game Changer for GitOps Security! 🚀 Secrets are everywhere, and managing them securely in a GitOps world has been a persistent headache. But what if we told you there’s a powerful solution on the horizon that promises to revolutionize how your Argo ecosystem handles credentials? Andrew Block, Distinguished Architect at Red Hat, and Blake Pettersson, Senior Solutions Architect at Accurity, recently took the stage to unveil a compelling vision for agnostic workload identity across the Argo system using SPIFFE Inspire. This isn’t just about integrating a new tool; it’s about fundamentally changing how we approach security in our cloud-native environments. ...