Panel: Building a GitOps... Dan Garfield, Revital Barletz, Antonela Cukurin, & Gabriel Quennesson

Presenters Dan Garfield Revital Barletz Antonela Cukurin Gabriel Quennesson Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Code: Navigating the Cultural Shift to GitOps In the world of cloud-native technology, we often spend our days obsessing over application sets, API rate limits, and directory structures. But as any seasoned engineer will tell you, the hardest part of digital transformation isn’t the software—it’s the people. Recently, Dan Garfield (VP of Open Source at Octopus Deploy and Argo Maintainer) sat down with Antonela Cukurin (Novo Nordisk) and Gabriel Quennesson (Michelin) to discuss the reality of adopting GitOps at a massive scale. From regulated pharma environments to global manufacturing giants, the consensus is clear: GitOps is a cultural revolution disguised as a technical workflow. ...

March 24, 2026 · 5 min

Network Segmentation at Scale: GitOps-Driven Multi-Tenant Isol... Luke Philips & Christian Hernandez

Presenters Luke Philips Christian Hernandez Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Building an Ironclad Castle: GitOps-Driven Multi-Tenant Isolation in Kubernetes 🚀 Ever dreamed of a perfect platform? One where your Kubernetes clusters hum along, applications sync flawlessly, and tenants coexist peacefully? Well, as Luke Phillips, a Principal Engineer at FICO, and Christian Hernandez, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent (and an Argo CD maintainer!), showed us, the reality of multi-tenant Kubernetes can quickly turn that dream into a thrilling challenge! ...

March 24, 2026 · 6 min

ArgoCon | Argo CD Update - Alexander Matyushentsev

Presenters Alexander Matyushentsev Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 The Evolution of Argo CD: A Year of Scale, Security, and OCI Magic In the fast-paced world of Cloud Native technology, few projects command as much attention and community passion as Argo CD. At a recent gathering, Alexander Matyushentsev, co-founder of Akuity and a founding engineer of the Argo project, took the stage to synthesize a whirlwind year of development. With over a decade of experience in workflows and CD, Alexander highlights that the project’s strength lies not just in its code, but in its massive, vibrant community. 🌐 ...

March 24, 2026 · 4 min

ArgoCon l Sponsored Keynote: From Kubernetes to Anything: The Evolution of Promotion... Jesse Suen

Presenters Jesse Suen Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Unlocking Secure Software Promotion: Kargo’s Game-Changing Custom Steps! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered what happens before your perfectly synced Kubernetes cluster gets an update? We all love Argo CD for its brilliant GitOps deployment capabilities, keeping our clusters continuously reconciled from Git. But here’s the million-dollar question: what controls what’s allowed into Git in the first place? Jesse Suen, co-founder and CTO of Acuity and co-creator of the Argo and Kargo projects, recently shone a spotlight on this crucial gap. He revealed how Kargo is evolving promotion beyond simple image tag updates, transforming it into a robust enforcement boundary. Get ready to rethink how your software moves! ...

March 24, 2026 · 5 min

Beyond GitOps: Building Intelligent Drift Detection and... Ram Mohan Rao Chukka & Shibi Ramachandran

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. ...

March 24, 2026 · 5 min