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

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

Lightning Talk: The $10,000 Argo CD Mistake: Eliminating Phantom Sync... Vanshika Jain & Aditya Soni

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. ...

March 24, 2026 · 4 min

Panel: From Signals To Safety Nets: Self-Healing Progressive... Anastasiia G, Julia Furst M & Joe F

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. ...

March 24, 2026 · 8 min