This guide explains GitOps fundamentals—declarative, versioned, automated deployments—and shows how tools like Argo CD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize, Tekton, and Sealed Secrets can speed up Kubernetes delivery, improve reliability, enhance security, and foster better collaboration across DevOps teams.
This article explains how the open‑source kubara framework provides a GitOps‑driven, hub‑and‑spoke Kubernetes platform that can be bootstrapped in about 30 minutes, detailing its architecture, default security, control‑plane components, data‑plane onboarding, and step‑by‑step commands for a production‑grade setup.
Argo CD 3.3 introduces a suite of production‑ready features—including native PreDelete hooks for safe resource cleanup, an enhanced Source Hydrator with Git notes and inline parameters, automatic OIDC token refresh, shallow Git cloning for large repos, and built‑in KEDA autoscaling—plus detailed upgrade guidance and best‑practice recommendations.
This guide walks through a production‑level GitOps CI/CD pipeline that integrates GitHub Actions for building and pushing Docker images, a separate GitOps repository for declarative Kubernetes manifests managed with Helm and Kustomize, and Argo CD plus Argo Rollouts to deliver automated, safe, progressive releases across staging and production environments.
ArgoCD v3.2.5, released on January 14 2026, brings critical stability and security fixes—including a refreshed notifications engine, ApplicationSet reconciliation improvements, precise error messages, and dependency updates—making it essential for production GitOps deployments, especially for users still on the EOL 2.x series.
This guide walks through building a Kubernetes‑centric CI/CD system—covering high‑frequency releases, multi‑environment isolation, automated rollback, Jenkins pipeline examples, Harbor image registry setup, Argo CD GitOps workflows, blue‑green and canary deployments, configuration security, observability, and practical rollout recommendations for teams at any maturity level.
Argo CD v3.3 introduces long‑awaited features such as PreDelete hooks for cleanup before resource removal, resource‑name‑based ClusterResourceWhitelist, shallow Git clone support, first‑class KEDA integration with pause/resume and health checks, plus numerous UI, CLI, and performance enhancements.
This guide walks you through advanced Kargo configuration for GitOps, covering essential CRDs such as Warehouse, Stage, and PromotionTemplate, offering concrete YAML examples, best‑practice recommendations, secure Git repository layouts, multi‑service promotion strategies, event‑driven rollouts, and safety measures to build scalable, reliable CI/CD pipelines.
This article presents a comprehensive syllabus for a cloud‑native CI/CD training program, covering fundamentals, tool selection, and hands‑on labs for Jenkins, Tekton, Drone, KubeVela, Zadig, Argo CD, and related technologies across multiple chapters and practical projects.
This article details Kaltura's migration of Argo CD's built‑in Redis to AWS ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, explaining the cost, performance, and operational challenges of the default setup, the step‑by‑step migration process, and the substantial savings and reliability gains achieved.
This article explains how to replace a naïve push‑based GitOps workflow with a centralized, permission‑controlled deployment pipeline using GitLab CI, detailing the architecture, advantages such as improved security and maintainability, and providing complete YAML examples for both service and central pipelines.
This comprehensive guide introduces Argo CD, explains its architecture and core concepts, walks through installation, cluster registration, application creation from a Git repository, and demonstrates how to sync and monitor applications using both the UI and CLI, empowering developers to adopt GitOps for Kubernetes deployments.
Wondershare Technology adopted Alibaba Cloud's ACK One GitOps platform to automate and unify the deployment of dozens of Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions, addressing manual deployment inefficiencies, traceability, rollback challenges, and multi‑tenant permission management while achieving a 50% increase in release efficiency.
This guide walks you through constructing a complete GitOps‑based CI/CD pipeline using GitLab, GitLab Runner on Kubernetes, Maven, SonarQube, Harbor, Argo CD, and Kustomize, covering code commit, build, test, image publishing, automated deployments, and advanced rollout strategies such as blue‑green and canary releases.
The article explains how Kargo, an open‑source, GitOps‑based platform built on Argo CD experience, addresses the complexities of multi‑stage CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes by providing declarative stage definitions, promotion workflows, and advanced delivery features such as canary releases and A/B testing.
This guide explains how to install the Weave GitOps UI and its CLI, configure HelmRelease and HelmRepository objects, access the dashboard, and then introduces Flamingo as a Flux subsystem for Argo CD, showing its installation, loopback reconciliation, and conversion of existing Flux applications.
The 2023 CNCF user survey of Argo CD and Argo Rollouts reveals high adoption rates, strong Net Promoter Scores, dominant usage by DevOps and platform engineers, expanding production deployments, and growing ecosystem integrations, highlighting opportunities and challenges for the GitOps and progressive delivery landscape.
The June API security report highlights three critical vulnerabilities—MinIO unauthorized data exposure, Joomla Rest API unauthenticated access, and multiple Argo CD API flaws—detailing their impacts and providing concrete remediation steps to protect sensitive data and maintain system integrity.
This article explains how Flamingo, a Flux subsystem for Argo CD, combines the strengths of both tools to provide a modular, extensible GitOps solution for Kubernetes, covering platform‑engineering challenges, GitLab’s adoption of Flux, installation steps, and integration with Weave GitOps.
This article demonstrates how to use Kustomize to manage Kubernetes manifests, generate ConfigMaps, Secrets, update images and replicas, create multi‑environment overlays, and render the final YAML for deployment with kubectl or Argo CD, assuming basic Kubernetes knowledge and the Kustomize CLI installed.
NetEase Cloud Music open-sourced Horizon, a Kubernetes-based GitOps continuous deployment platform, offering standardized Helm‑based templates, RBAC, multi‑cloud support, CI integration, and extensibility, built on Argo CD, Tekton, and other components, now used in large‑scale production across multiple regions.
This article describes a cloud‑native CI/CD pipeline built on Kubernetes that leverages Tekton for continuous integration, Argo CD for continuous deployment, and Redmine for project management, detailing system design, task flow, usage steps, and achieved operational benefits.
GitOps, a cloud‑native continuous deployment approach that uses Git as the single source of truth, enables secure, auditable, and multi‑tenant Kubernetes management by automating state reconciliation, supporting multi‑cluster and multi‑environment deployments, and integrating tools like Argo CD, Flux, Helm, and Kustomize.
This guide explains how to set up Argo CD webhooks for real‑time Git change detection, expose Prometheus metrics for monitoring, and integrate DingTalk notifications using ArgoCD Notifications to receive application sync status alerts.
This guide explains the origins of GitOps, introduces Argo CD’s architecture and core concepts, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing, configuring, and operating Argo CD on Kubernetes, including CLI usage, cluster registration, application creation, synchronization, and health monitoring.
This tutorial shows how to refactor a Tekton‑based CI/CD pipeline by extracting Helm chart templates into a separate repository, configuring an Argo CD AppProject and Application, adding sync and manifest‑update tasks, customizing health checks, and finally achieving a streamlined GitOps workflow on Kubernetes.
This guide shows how to refactor a Tekton CI/CD pipeline by extracting Helm chart templates into a separate repository, configuring Argo CD to manage the deployment stage, and adding Tekton tasks that update Helm values, sync the application, and handle health checks, achieving a full GitOps workflow on Kubernetes.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Argo CD, a Kubernetes‑native GitOps continuous deployment tool, covering its architecture, core components, supported manifest types, key features, installation steps, cluster configuration, application creation, and synchronization methods using both CLI and UI.
This guide shows how to combine Jenkins with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts to create a fast, automated CI/CD pipeline that speeds up Argo CD triggers, performs canary releases, and automatically tags GitLab repositories for version control.
This article explains the concepts of GitOps and Argo CD, walks through installing Argo CD on a Kubernetes cluster, and demonstrates creating, syncing, and updating applications via the web UI, highlighting key advantages and practical commands for continuous delivery.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide to implementing a GitOps workflow on a Kubernetes cluster using Argo CD and GitLab CI, covering Argo CD installation, Helm deployment, application configuration, CI/CD pipeline definition, and deployment to dev and prod environments.
This article demonstrates a complete GitOps workflow on Kubernetes using Argo CD and GitLab CI, covering installation, configuration of Argo CD, GitLab project setup, Helm deployment, and a multi‑stage CI/CD pipeline that automatically builds, publishes Docker images, and synchronizes applications in dev and prod environments.
