Argo CD and Argo Rollouts 2023 User Survey Results: Insights and Trends

Argo CD and Argo Rollouts user surveys provide rich information about community experience with these open‑source GitOps and progressive delivery engines. The data, collected from 155 respondents, highlights the most valued features, areas for improvement, and the evolving roles of users.

Argo CD

Since last year Argo CD has achieved a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 76 , with 93% of respondents using it in production, demonstrating strong adoption and satisfaction.

Why users like Argo CD

Resource UI is educational for newcomers to Kubernetes.

Web UI provides quick insight into all Kubernetes resources.

Overall reliability and feature set.

Self‑service GitOps workflow.

ApplicationSets support.

Drift detection.

Automatic sync.

Easy upgrades.

Job roles

Respondents are mainly DevOps engineers , platform engineers and architects . The share of application/software engineers and SREs has decreased, indicating a shift toward platform engineering.

DevOps Engineer: 42.5%

Platform Engineer: 24.6%

Architect: 12.7%

SRE: 4.5%

Application/Software Engineer: 4.4%

Production usage

More than 93% of respondents run Argo CD in production, and 75% have been using it for over six months.

Scale and size

About 75% of users operate 1‑5 Argo CD instances. 45% manage 50‑500 applications, while 16% manage over 500 applications.

Ecosystem integration

The most popular toolchain combines Argo CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform, followed by Jenkins, Argo Workflows, and Backstage.

Opportunities

With 46% of CNCF respondents either just starting or not yet using GitOps, there is significant growth potential for Argo CD as a leading GitOps solution.

Argo Rollouts

Why users like Argo Rollouts

Easy canary deployments without a service mesh.

Canary strategy with Istio and traffic mirroring.

Automatic rollback.

Job roles

Respondents are again primarily DevOps engineers , platform engineers and architects , with a higher proportion of application/software engineers compared to Argo CD.

DevOps Engineer: 28.6%

Platform Engineer: 28.6%

Architect: 14.3%

Application/Software Engineer: 14.3%

Production usage

Among Rollouts users, 19% are evaluating or developing with it, while 33.3% have been in production less than six months and 47.6% over six months.

Scale and size

Most Rollouts deployments are small: 75% have fewer than 50 applications. However, 10% manage 50‑500, another 10% manage 500‑2000, and 5% manage over 2000 applications.

Ecosystem integration

Prometheus is the most common metric provider. The top traffic‑routing solutions used with Rollouts are Istio, Nginx, and AWS ALB.

Opportunities

Further standardisation of health‑metric definitions and advanced traffic‑routing strategies would accelerate broader adoption of Rollouts.

Conclusion

Thanks to all survey participants for their valuable feedback, which will guide the future development of Argo CD and Argo Rollouts.