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CI/CD & GitOps¶

299 talks across 34 events, oldest first: 56 case studies where an organization reports its own experience, plus concept talks and tutorials.

Keywords: gitops, argo, argocd, argo cd, flux, ci/cd, continuous delivery, continuous deployment, tekton, jenkins, helm, kustomize, progressive delivery, canary (edit under categories: in wiki.yaml).

Over time¶

Year	Talks	Case studies
2016	2	0
2017	14	5
2018	30	6
2019	32	4
2020	28	5
2021	34	1
2022	26	5
2023	29	5
2024	36	9
2025	40	6
2026	28	10

Organizations with case studies¶

Intuit (3), Adobe (3), Akuity (2), Heap, Box, Ticketmaster, Infobip, Meetup, Zalando, SAP, Branch Metrics, CircleCI, Kubernetes, CERN, Fidelity Investments, Pivotal, IBM, Otomato Software, Mi..., DoD, Spotify, New, A. Grabner, Akamai, Production, Flox, G-Research, Google, LinkedIn, Maintainer

Talks by event¶

2016 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 (Seattle)¶

concept · Taking the Helm: Delivering Kubernetes-Native Applications by Michelle Noorali
concept · Taking the Helm - Ancestry's Journey to Kubernetes by Paul MacKay, Ancestry.com

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin)¶

case study · Case Study Conrad Electronic – From a Static Infrastructure to Continuous Delivery and the Cloud
case study · A Staging Environment Per Pull Request: Building Our Own Controller! [B] - Kamal Marhubi, Heap — Heap. Heap built its own Kubernetes controller to give every pull request its own staging environment.
case study · Lessons Learned From Maintaining Continuous Delivery While Migrating From a Static Infrastructure
concept · Lightning Talk: Boosting Helm with AppController - Maciej Kwiek, Mirantis Inc.. Lightning talk on extending Helm with AppController for resource dependency ordering.
concept · Delve into Helm: Advanced DevOps [I] - Lachlan Evenson & Adam Reese, Deis
concept · Elephants on Automatic: HA Clustered PostgreSQL with Helm [I] - Josh Berkus & Oleksii Kliukin

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)¶

case study · Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes at Box [I] - Greg Lyons, Box — Box
case study · One Chart to Rule Them All: Continuous Deployment with Helm at Ticketmaster - Michael Goodness — Ticketmaster
concept · Microservices, Service Mesh, and CI/CD Pipelines: Making It All Work Together [I] - Brian Redmond
concept · Using Containers for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery [I] - Carlos Sanchez, CloudBees
concept · Helm Chart Patterns [I] - Vic Iglesias, Google
concept · GitOps - Operations by Pull Request [B] - Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks & William Denniss, Google
concept · Reliable Application Roll Out and Operations with Istio [B] - Lin Sun, IBM & Mandar Jog, Google. Shows how to use Istio for reliable application rollouts and operations.
tutorial · Building Helm Charts From the Ground Up: An Introduction to Kubernetes [I] - Amy Chen, Heptio

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)¶

case study · Canary Deployment With Prometheus - Andrey Markelov, Infobip — Infobip. Infobip shows how it runs canary deployments using Prometheus metrics.
case study · Kubernetes CI/CD Practices at Meetup - Rui Chen, Meetup — Meetup. Meetup describes how it built and runs its Kubernetes-based CI/CD practices for its own services.
concept · CI/CD Pipelines and Machine Learning - Jeremy Lewi, Google
concept · Intro: Helm - Taylor Thomas, Microsoft. An introduction to Helm and how it manages Kubernetes applications.
concept · Securing the Perimeter - CFCR/CFAR Chain of Custody With CI/CD Pipelines - Keith Strini, Pivo
concept · Kustomize: Template-Free Configuration Customization for Kubernetes - Jeffrey Regan
concept · Deep Dive: Helm - Taylor Thomas, Microsoft. Deep dive into Helm's design and features.
tutorial · Take the Wheel, Don’t Reinvent It! - Deploying Apps With Helm in 5 Minutes - Christopher Hanson. A short hands-on walkthrough of deploying applications with Helm in five minutes.
tutorial · Kubernetes CICD Hacks with MicroK8s and Kubeflow - Land Lu & Zhang Lei Mao, Canonical. Hands-on tips for CI/CD on Kubernetes using MicroK8s and Kubeflow.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)¶

case study · Continuously Deliver your Kubernetes Infrastructure - Mikkel Larsen, Zalando SE — Zalando. Zalando explains how it continuously delivers updates to its Kubernetes infrastructure.
concept · Jenkins X: Easy CI/CD for Kubernetes - James Strachan, CloudBees (Intermediate Skill Level)
concept · Evolving a Continuous Delivery Workflow - Gard Rimestad & Øyvind Ingebrigtsen Øvergaard
concept · Continuous Delivery Meets Custom Kubernetes Controller - Suneeta Mall & Simon Cochrane
concept · GitOps for Istio - Manage Istio Config like Code - Varun Talwar & Alexis Richardson
concept · Canary Deploys with Kubernetes, Istio and Envoy - Jason Yee, Datadog (Beginner Skill Level)
concept · CI/CD BoF: Delivering Quality Quickly - Brice Fernandes & Marc Carré, Weaveworks (Any Skill Level)

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)¶

case study · Migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes Broke Our Brains - Jonathan Hess & Loren Trout, SAP — SAP. SAP recounts the difficulties and lessons from migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes.
case study · Kubernetes and The GitOps Face-Off - Ricardo Aravena & Javeria Khan, Branch Metrics — Branch Metrics. Branch Metrics compares GitOps approaches on Kubernetes based on its own experience.
case study · Abstracting Heavy Lifting: How K8s Speeds Up Multi-Cloud Solution Delivery - Rob Zuber, CircleCI — CircleCI. CircleCI describes how Kubernetes abstractions sped up its multi-cloud solution delivery.
concept · Intro: Helm - Matt Farina, Samsung SDS. Introduction to the Helm project, its purpose and its current state.
concept · CI/CD in Light Speed with K8s and Argo cd - Billy Yuen & Parin Shah, Intuit
concept · CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Databases: Better Together - Niraj Tolia & Tom Manville, Kasten
concept · Kustomize: Deploy Your App with Template Free YAML - Ryan Cox, Lyft
concept · Jenkins X: Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes - Carlos Sanchez, CloudBees
concept · Deep Dive: Helm - Matt Butcher & Adam Reese, Microsoft The Helm Deep Dive will have two parts.
concept · Continuous Delivery on Platforms is Better for Your Brain (and Business!) - Daniel Jones
concept · Automating Enterprise Governance Using the CI/CD Pipeline - Satyam Agarwala & Mark Angrish
tutorial · Lightning Talk: Introduction to GitOps Deployment to Kubernetes - Jun Sakata, Ubie, Inc.
tutorial · Tutorial: Hands-on Gitops - Brice Fernandes, Weaveworks. Hands-on tutorial for practicing GitOps.
tutorial · Tutorial: Deploying Windows Apps with Draft, Helm and Kubernetes - Patrick Lang & Jessica Deen

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 (Shanghai)¶

concept · Lightning Talk: Developer's Toolbox for Testing in Production - Rui Chen, Meetup. A lightning talk presenting a developer toolbox for safely testing in production.
concept · Lightning Talk: New Helm Chart Installation Experience with Visual and Repeatable... - Steven Zou
concept · Release Engineering as a Service - The Art of Integrating with K8s - Maryam Labib & Ramya Shenoy. Describes offering release engineering as a service integrated with Kubernetes.
concept · Continuous Delivery of Cloud Native Microservices on the PCF Platform - LiuFan, Pivotal
concept · Promoting Kubernetes CI/CD to the Next Level - Tim Pouyer, IBM
concept · (k)Native K8s CI/CD platform - Shash Reddy, Pivotal

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)¶

case study · From Snowflake Servers to Snowflake Clusters - The GitOps Journey - Allison Richardet
case study · Peribolos: How Kubernetes Uses GitOps to Manage GitHub Communities at Scale - Christoph Blecker — Kubernetes
concept · Intro: Helm - Michelle Noorali & Matt Fisher, Microsoft
concept · Streamlining Kubernetes Application CI/CD with Bazel - Gregg Donovan & Chris Love
concept · Kanary - Automated and Integrated Canary Testing Using CRD... - David Benque & Cédric Lamorinière
concept · Hacking Helm - Paul Czarkowski, Pivotal & Scott Rigby, Codeacademy
concept · Helm 3: Navigating To Distant Shores - Bridget Kromhout & Jessica Deen, Microsoft
concept · How Intuit Does Canary and Blue Green Deployments with a K8s Controller - Daniel Thomson
concept · Modern CI/CD with Tekton and Prow Automated via Jenkins X - James Rawlings, Cloudbees. Shows how Jenkins X automates modern CI/CD using Tekton and Prow.
concept · Repeatable Deployments with Kubernetes, Helm & Bazel - Rohan Singh, Hustle Inc
concept · Deep Dive: Helm - Matt Fisher, Microsoft
panel · Panel Discussion: GitOps & Best Practices for Cloud Native CI/CD

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)¶

case study · Managing Helm Deployments with Gitops at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN — CERN
case study · Fidelity’s Move to “Finance Grade” Kubernetes with... Alexis Richardson & Rajarajan Pudupatti SJ — Fidelity Investments. Fidelity describes moving to finance-grade Kubernetes operated with GitOps practices.
concept · Kubernetes in Your 4x4 – Continuous Deployment Directly to the Car - Rafal Kowalski, Grape Up
concept · Intro: Flux - Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks & Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks
concept · Mario’s Adventures in Tekton Land - Vincent Demeester, Red Hat & Andrea Frittoli, IBM
concept · Supercharge Your Microservices CI/CD with Service Mesh and Kubernetes - Brian Redmond, Microsoft
concept · Helm 3 Deep Dive - Taylor Thomas, Microsoft Azure & Martin Hickey, IBM
concept · Creating a Micro Open-Source Community with Helm - Katie Gamanji, Condé Nast International
concept · Deep Dive: Flux the GitOps Operator for Kubernetes - Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks
concept · Open Source Weave Ignite - The GitOps VM - Mark Emeis, Weaveworks
concept · Leveling Up Your CD: Unlocking Progressive Delivery on Kubernetes - Daniel Thomson & Jesse Suen
tutorial · An Introduction to Helm - Matt Farina, Samsung SDS & Josh Dolitsky, Blood Orange
tutorial · Tutorial: Everything You Need To Become a GitOps Ninja - Alex Collins & Alexander Matyushentsev
panel · Panel: GitOps User Stories

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual ¶

case study · Managing Applications in Production: Helm vs ytt & kapp - Dmitriy Kalinin & Shatarupa Nandi, Pivotal — Pivotal
case study · When the Tekton Cat Misbehaves – Pitfalls, Mistakes, and Lessons Learned - Mark Nuttall, IBM — IBM
case study · Escaping the Jungle - Migration to Cloud Native CI/CD - Anton Weiss, Otomato Software — Otomato Software
case study · Where's My Container? Visualizing the GitOps Container Journey at Mi... Andre Briggs & Samiya Akhtar — Mi...
concept · Build an Automatic Canary Release Pipeline in a Kubernetes-native Way - Ying Chun Guo, IBM
concept · Progressive Delivery in Kubernetes - Carlos Sanchez, Adobe & Viktor Farcic, CloudBees
concept · Managing Multi-Cluster/Multi-Tenant Kubernetes with GitOps - Chris Carty, Independent
concept · Going Beyond CI/CD with Prow - Leonardo Di Donato, Sysdig
concept · Deep Dive into Helm - Scott Rigby, Codeacademy & Paul Czarkowski, Pivotal
concept · Sponsor Demo: Knative, Kafka, Tekton, KubeVirt via OpenShift 4.5 w/ Red Hat Advanced Cluster Mngmnt
concept · Mario Meets the Robocat: Lessons From Dogfooding Tekton - Andrea Frittoli & Dibyo Mukherjee
concept · Using Kubernetes Secrets in GitOps Workflows Securely - Seth Vargo & Alex Tcherniakhovski, Google. Explains approaches for securely handling Kubernetes secrets in GitOps workflows.
concept · Next Generation of CI/CD: Analytics-driven Traffic Management on Kubernetes - Fabio Oliveira, IBM
concept · Using Argo and Knative to Orchestrate Media-intensive Services in 5G Edge - David Breitgand, IBM
concept · Flux Deep Dive: A GitOps Approach to Progressive Delivery - Stefan Prodan & Hidde Beydals. Deep dive into using Flux and GitOps for progressive delivery.
concept · Uncharted Territories: Discovering Vulnerabilities in Public Helm Charts - Hayley Denbraver, Snyk
tutorial · An introduction to Helm - Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft & Marc Khouzam, City of Montreal
tutorial · Tutorial: Hands-On Intro to Cloud-Native CI/CD with Tekton - Jan Kleinert & Joel Lord, Red Hat
other · Sponsor Demo: CircleCI - Increase App Confidence using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. A CircleCI sponsor demo showing how CI/CD and infrastructure as code increase application confidence.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual ¶

case study · The Building Blocks of DX: K8s Evolution From CLI to GitOps - Katie Gamanji
concept · GitOps Is Likely More Than You Think It Is - Cornelia Davis, Weaveworks
concept · Progressive Delivery Techniques with Flagger - Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks
concept · How to Multiply the Power of Argo Projects By Using Them Together - Hong Wang
concept · Helm: Past, Present, Future - Matt Butcher & Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft, & Matt Farina
concept · Constructing Chaos Workflows with Argo and LitmusChaos - Umasankar Mukkara, MayaData & Sumit Nagal
concept · Production CI/CD w/CNBs: Tekton, Gitlab & CircleCI(plus), Oh My! - David Freilich & Natalie Arellano
tutorial · Tutorial: DevOps Tooling for Java Developers in a Cloud Native World - Melissa McKay, Stephen Chin. Hands-on tutorial on DevOps tooling for Java developers in cloud native environments.
panel · End User Panel: GITOPS in the Enterprise -Real World Experiences - Cheryl Hung

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021 ¶

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 ¶

case study · How DoD Uses K8s & Flux to Achieve Compliance & Deployment Consistency - M. Medellin & G. Tillman — DoD
concept · Building a Portable Kubernetes Deployment Pipeline with Argo Workflo... Thomas Meadows & Ollie Young
concept · Putting Chaos Into Continuous Delivery to Increase App... Juergen Etzlstorfer & Karthik Satchitanand
concept · Live Experiments with K8s Applications: Pitfalls and Ho... Fabio Oliveira & Srinivasan Parthasarathy. Covers pitfalls and best practices for running live experiments on Kubernetes applications.
concept · Taking the Helm: Becoming a Maintainer - Bridget Kromhout & Matt Butcher, Karena Angell, Matt Farina
concept · Efficient Model Exploring and Continuous Delivery With Polyaxon + Kubeflow - Shotaro Kohama
concept · Building MLOps POCs and Sandbox Environments Using k3s and Argo - Sergio Mendez
concept · Helm Users! What Flux 2 Can Do For You - Scott Rigby & Kingdon Barrett, Weaveworks
concept · Flux: Multi-tenancy Deep Dive - Philip Laine, Xenit
concept · The New Stack Makers Virtual Pancake Breakfast + Podcast: Securing GitOps: Self-Healing Through O...
concept · GitOps Working Group Update - Cornelia Davis, Weaveworks & Chris Sanders, Microsoft
concept · Sponsored Session: CircleCI - Building Arm Compatible CI/CD Pipelines
panel · App Delivery in Cloud Native: Where are We? What's Next? - Lei Zhang, Alibaba & Alois Reitbauer. Lei Zhang and Alois Reitbauer discuss the state and future of cloud native application delivery.
keynote · Sponsored Session: Red Hat - Use Kubernetes-native Integrated GitOps CI/CD Workflows. Red Hat sponsored session on Kubernetes-native integrated GitOps CI/CD workflows.
keynote · Sponsored Session: AWS & Weaveworks - Enable Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes with GitOps, EKS, and EKS-D. Sponsored session on enabling hybrid cloud Kubernetes with GitOps, EKS and EKS-D.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Sponsored Videos ¶

concept · Delivering GitOps with Argo CD

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 ¶

concept · A Tall Tale of GitOps - Prasanjit Singh, Starzplay
concept · Flux's Roadmap to General Availability - Hidde Beydals & Michael Bridgen, Weaveworks. Roadmap for Flux to reach general availability.
concept · Level Unlocked: GitOps to the Edge and Infrastructure Provisioning - Katie Gamanji. Covers GitOps at the edge and infrastructure provisioning.
concept · Manage More Clusters with Less Hassle, with Argo CD Application Sets - Jonathan West & Kshama Jain
concept · SIG Events: Using CloudEvents to Create an Interoperable CI/CD Ecosystem - Andrea Frittoli, IBM
concept · Kubernetes SIG CLI: Intro and Updates - Eddie Zaneski, Katrina Verey, Sean Sullivan. Kubernetes SIG CLI introduces itself and gives updates on kubectl and Kustomize.
concept · Kubernetes Supply Chain Security: The Software Factory - Andrew Martin, Control Plane. Andrew Martin presents a software factory model for securing the Kubernetes supply chain.
concept · GitOps+Jenkins-CI With Declarative Everything - Kingdon Barrett, Weaveworks
concept · Shh, It’s a Secret: Managing Your Secrets in a GitOps Way - Jake Wernette & Josh Kayani, IBM. IBM engineers show approaches for managing secrets in a GitOps workflow.
concept · Customizing Kustomize with Client-Side Custom Resources - Katrina Verey, Apple & Jeff Regan, Google
concept · TAG App Delivery - Jennifer Strejevitch, VMware & Alois Reitbauer. Update on the CNCF TAG App Delivery group and its work.
concept · Helm: The Charts and the Curious - Karena Angell, Paul Czarkowski, Andrew Block & Scott Rigby
concept · Argo and Tekton: Pushing the Boundaries of the Possible on Kubernetes - Alex Collins & Jason Hall
concept · The Argo Ecosystem: Tailoring Your Installation Through Comm... Jesse Suen & Alexander Matyushentsev
panel · Panel Discussion: OpenGitOps and the GitOps Working Group

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 ¶

case study · Automated Progressive Delivery Using GitOps and Service Mesh - Yasen Simeonov & Henrik Blixt, Intuit — Intuit. Intuit shows how it automates progressive delivery with GitOps and a service mesh.
concept · TikTok’s Story: How To Manage a Thousand Applications on Edge With Argo CD - Qingkun Li & Jesse Suen
concept · GitOpsify Everything: When Crossplane Meets Argo CD - Ying Mo & Ken Murray, IBM. Shows how Crossplane and Argo CD can be combined to GitOpsify all infrastructure and applications.
concept · Simplifying Service Mesh Operations with Flux and Flagger - Mitch Connors & Stefan Prodan. Shows how Flux and Flagger can be combined to simplify operating a service mesh through GitOps and progressive delivery.
concept · How a Couple of Characters (and GitOps) Brought Down Our Site - Guy Templeton & Stuart Davidson
concept · GitOps to Automate the Setup, Management and Extension a K8s Cluster - Kim Schlesinger, DigitalOcean
concept · Argo’s Vibrant Ecosystem and Community - Alex Collins, Alexander Matyushentsev & Dan Garfield. Argo maintainers present the project's ecosystem and community.
concept · Helm Project 2022: How You Can Benefit, Ho... Scott Rigby, Matt Butcher, Martin Hickey, Andrew Block
concept · Flux Security Deep Dive - Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks
tutorial · Intro to Kubernetes, GitOps, and Observability Hands-On Tutorial - Joaquin Rodriguez & Tiffany Wang

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 ¶

case study · Multi-Tenancy For Argo Workflows And Argo CD At Adobe - Srinivas Malladi, Adobe — Adobe
case study · How Adobe Planned For Scale With Argo CD, Cluster API, And VCluster - Joseph Sandoval & Dan Garfield — Adobe
case study · How Intuit Manages Cloud Resources Via GitOps - Jerome Kuptz & Ameen Radwan, Intuit — Intuit
case study · How the Argo Project Transitioned From Security Aware To Security First - Henrik & Michael Crenshaw
concept · Like Peas And Carrots: Argo CD And Crossplane For Infrastructure Manag... Jesse Suen & Viktor Farcic
concept · Bare-Metal Chronicles: Intertwinement Of Tinkerbell, Cluster API And GitOps - Katie Gamanji, Apple
concept · Secure Multi-Tenant GitOps Application & Infrastructure Rollouts...- Vikram Sethi & Manabu McCloskey
concept · Paradox Of Choice: How To Pick an Application Definition That Wo... Anusha Ragunathan & Kevin Downey. Compares application definition approaches and how to choose one that fits your needs.
concept · Observability In ArgoCD/Rollouts Using Streaming ML For Reducing MTTR - Vigith Maurice & A Kalamkar. Shows using streaming ML on ArgoCD/Rollouts observability data to reduce MTTR.
concept · Learn About Helm And Its Ecosystem - Andrew Block & Karena Angell, Matt Farina, Scott Rigby. Helm maintainers introduce Helm and its surrounding ecosystem.
concept · Dynamically Testing Individual Microservice Releases In Production - Matt Turner, Tetrate. Shows how to dynamically test individual microservice releases in production.
concept · SneakOps – Getting Users To Use GitOps Without Them Even Knowing... - Éamon Ryan & Hedley Simons
concept · Keptn Beyond 1.0: Sailing into the...-Thomas Schuetz & Andi Grabner, Brad McCoy, Ana Medina. Project update on Keptn after 1.0 and its roadmap.
concept · Trust But Verify: Bringing Supply Chain Integrity To CD GitOps - Yuji Watanabe & Hirokuni Kitahara
concept · Flux Maturity, Feature, and Contrib Update - Kingdon Barrett & Somtochi Onyekwere, Weaveworks
tutorial · Flagger, Linkerd, And Gateway API: Oh My! - Jason Morgan, Buoyant & Sanskar Jaiswal, Weaveworks. Shows how Flagger, Linkerd and the Gateway API work together for progressive delivery.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 ¶

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 ¶

case study · Operate Multi-Tenancy Service Mesh with ArgoCD in Production - Lin Sun & Faseela K
case study · Tips from the Trenches: GitOps at Adobe - Larisa Andreea Danaila & Ionut-Maxim Margelatu, Adobe — Adobe
case study · How We Migrated Over 1000 Services to Backstage Using GitOps and Survived to... - Shmaram & Mansoor. The speakers describe migrating over 1000 services to Backstage using GitOps and the lessons learned.
concept · Flux Beyond Git: Harnessing the Power of OCI - Stefan Prodan & Hidde Beydals, Weaveworks
concept · Learn the Helm Code Base and PR Review Process - Scott Rigby, Andrew Block & Karena Angell
concept · Argo CD Core - A Pure GitOps Agent for Kubernetes - Alexander Matyushentsev & Leonardo Luz Almeida
concept · A CI/CD Platform in the Palm of Your Hand - Claudia Beresford, Weaveworks. Demonstrates a CI/CD platform that can be run from a handheld device.
concept · Verifiable GitHub Actions with eBPF - Jose Donizetti, Aqua. Shows how to verify GitHub Actions runs using eBPF.
concept · Unlocking Argo CD’s Hidden Tools for Chaos Engineering - Featuring... - D Garfield & B Phillips
concept · Ephemeral Clusters as a Service with ClusterAPI and GitOps - Alessandro Vozza & Joaquin Rodriguez
concept · Automating Configuration and Permissions Testing for GitOps with OPA...- Eve Ben Ezra & Michael Hume
concept · Secure the Build, Secure the Cloud: Using OIDC Tokens in CI/CD Pipelines- Alex Ilgayev & Elad Pticha
concept · How GitOps Changed Our Lives & Can Change Yours Too! - Priyanka, Christian, Filip, Roberth, Leigh

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 ¶

case study · Software Delivery in Regulated Environments: Critical Infrastructure... Austen Bryan & Steven Ollek. Speakers share experience delivering software in regulated, critical-infrastructure environments.
case study · Everything Is Code: Embracing GitOps at Spotify - Tim Hansen, Spotify — Spotify
concept · Harnessing Argo & Flux: The Quest to Scale Add-Ons Beyond 10k C... Joaquin Rodriguez & Priyanka Ravi
concept · Demystify Helm Support in Argo CD - Alexander Matyushentsev & Remington Breeze, Akuity
concept · GoTo Financial’s Story: Towards 10k ArgoCD Apps to Support Bi... Yudi Andrean Phanama & Giri Kuncoro
concept · Keeping Helm Reliable and Usable - Matt Farina, Karena Angell, George Jenkins & Ian Zink
concept · Flux 2.0 and Beyond: Amplifying GitOps with OCI and Cosign - Kingdon Barrett & Sanskar Jaiswal
concept · The Complexity on Scaling ML Pipelines on Kubernetes Using Tekton - Tommy Li, IBM
concept · Level up Your Argo CD Experience: Unleash the Power of Cu... Remington Breeze & Leonardo Luz Almeida
concept · Beyond Prototypes: Production-Ready ML Systems with Metaflow and Argo Pro... Savin Goyal & Yuan Tang
concept · What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help!
concept · Lightning Talk: Dynamically Proxy Helm Charts as OCI Artifacts - Vadim Bauer

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China 2024 ¶

concept · Revolutionizing Scientific Simulations with Argo Workflows - ShaungKun Tian & YaShi Su

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 ¶

case study · GitOps Continuous Delivery at Scale with Flux - Stefan Prodan
case study · Tackling Configuration Management at Scale with Flux, CUE and OCI at... Alec Hothan & Stefan Prodan
case study · From Bash Scripts to Kubeflow and GitOps: Our Journey to Operationalizing ML at Scale
case study · How We Are Moving from GitOps to Kubernetes Resource Model in 5G Core
concept · The Chain of Trust: Towards SLSA L3 with Tekton Trusted Artifacts - Jerop Kipruto & Andrea Frittoli
concept · What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski & Maciej Szulik
concept · Make Your Cluster Fly: Embed a Multi-Node Kubernetes Cluster Inside an Aircraft Using Puppet & Flux
concept · Misconfigurations in Helm Charts: How Far Are We from Automated Detection and Mitigation?
concept · Flux and the Wider Ecosystem Planning BoF
concept · Supercharging Argo CD’s Manifest Generation Capabilities
concept · Growing Better Together: Argo's Community-Driven Development | Project Lightning Talk
concept · Flux: Secure and Scalable GitOps | Project Lightning Talk
tutorial · Tutorial: Progressive Delivery with Argo Rollouts
other · A Quick Look at the TAG App Delivery | TAG Lightning Talk. Lightning talk giving a quick overview of the CNCF TAG App Delivery group and its work.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024 ¶

case study · Taking a Quick Look at New Features in Argo CD v2.13 | Project Lightning Talk — New
concept · Streamlining Machine Learning Operations with GitOps - Kunal Kushwaha, Civo
concept · Is GitOps a Broken Experience - Where Is the Ops in GitOps ? - Rajalakshmi Kamath V, Walmart Global
concept · Fuzzing for Stability: Uncovering and Mitigating Helm's CVE - Jakub Ciolek, AlphaSense
concept · Expedia Group's GitOps Revolution: Extensive Scalability Testing on ArgoCD... S. Mehrotra & M. Kumar
concept · From CPU to GPU: Progressive Delivery for Complex ML Deployments - Sumit Jain & Divyansh Saxena. Covers progressive delivery strategies for complex ML deployments moving from CPU to GPU.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City ¶

case study · How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines! - N. Woerner, A. Grabner — A. Grabner
case study · From Chaos to Calm: Building a Unified and Scalable CI/CD Pipeline at Akamai - Tomer Patel — Akamai
case study · GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Leigh Capili, Flox & Priyanka Ravi, G-Research — Production, Flox, G-Research
case study · Towards Zero Change Incidents: Intuit's Strategy for Implementing AI... A. Basu, S. Balasubramanian — Intuit. Intuit describes its strategy for using AI to move toward zero change-caused incidents.
concept · Why Serverless Is Trending Again - Matt Butcher, Fermyon & Jay Jenkins, Akamai
concept · The Path to Helm 4 - Matt Farina, SUSE & Andrew Block, Red Hat
concept · Artifact Hub: Discover, Analyze, and Share Cloud Native Artifacts - Matt Farina, SUSE. Introduces Artifact Hub for discovering, analyzing and sharing cloud native artifacts.
concept · What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski & Arda Guclu
concept · Mastering ApplicationSet: Advanced Argo CD Automation - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity. Advanced ApplicationSet features and patterns for automating Argo CD deployments.
concept · Perform Laser Focused Deployments by Deciding in Advance the Blast Radius - Kostis Kapelonis. Explains how to limit deployment blast radius by deciding it in advance.
concept · Secure by Design CI/CD: Practical Insights from Adobe and Autodesk - Vikram Sethi & Jesse Sanford
concept · The Hard Truth About GitOps and Database Rollbacks - Rotem Tamir, Ariga
concept · GitOops... I Did It Again! Protecting Your GitOps System from Being Used for... O. Livni, E. Pticha
concept · Flux: What's Flux and What's New? | Project Lightning Talk. Lightning talk on what Flux is and what's new.
panel · Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Su... Panel. A panel on what the TAG App Delivery group is doing to support applications, platforms and infrastructure.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 (Hong Kong)¶

concept · Argo Workflows: Intro, Update and Deep Dive - Shuangkun Tian & Yashi Su, Alibaba Cloud
concept · Progressive Delivery Made Easy With Argo Rollouts - Kevin Dubois, Red Hat

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London ¶

case study · How We Progressively Deliver Changes To Kubernetes Using Canary Deployments and Featur... Bob Walker
concept · Helm 4 You - Matt Farina, SUSE & Andrew Block, Red Hat
concept · A Cloud Native Workflow for Hardware-in-the-Loop Software Development - Miguel Angel Ajo, Red Hat. Shows a cloud native workflow for hardware-in-the-loop software development.
concept · Mind the Gap: Bridging Supply Chain Policy With Git-less GitOps... Michael Lieberman & Andrew Martin
concept · Flux Ecosystem Evolution - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong
concept · Mastering Efficiency in Argo CD: Scaling Smarter, Not Costlier - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity
concept · Standardizing CI/CD Observability With OpenTelemetry: Insights Fr... Dotan Horovits & Adriel Perkins
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Flux - What is it & What's New? - Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Kubeflow Helm Chart - Krzysztof Romanowski, Maintainer
tutorial · Tutorial: Rock, Paper, Scissors! Build an AI-powered Interactive Game With Argo CD and Kubeflow
tutorial · Project Lightning Talk: Quick Intro to CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry - Dotan Horovits

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 ¶

case study · A Journey To Ephemeral Test Environments With EKS and ArgoCD - Tatiana Selezneva & Gazal Gafoor
concept · Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments wi... Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD 3.0: What’s New and What’s Next? - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer
concept · Plug-and-Play Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes Built-in Workloads With OpenKrui... Harkirat Singh
concept · ArgoCD CLI Gets an Upgrade: Plugins, Flexibility, and More - Nitish Kumar, Akuity

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025 (Tokyo)¶

concept · Multi Cluster Magics With Argo CD and Cluster Inventory or Don't Get Lost in the Cl... Kaslin Fields
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Expanding your GitOps with New Pluggable PipeCD - Shinnosuke Sawada-Dazai. Lightning talk introducing the new pluggable architecture of PipeCD for extending GitOps.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 ¶

case study · One Dozen To One Thousand Clusters: How Argo Kept up as We Scaled - Jérémy Albuixech & Kahou Lei. Speakers describe how their Argo CD setup scaled from a dozen to a thousand clusters.
case study · Taming Rollout Risks in Distributed Web Apps: A Location-Aware Gradual Deployment... Angela Victorio — Google. Describes a location-aware gradual deployment approach to reduce rollout risk in distributed web apps.
case study · Kubernetes IP Management: From Core Concepts To Strategic Solutions - Ivy Zhuang & Whitney Jenkins
case study · Making Application Rollouts Observable, Actionable and Boring - Vasudev Bongale, LinkedIn — LinkedIn. LinkedIn shows how it made application rollouts observable, actionable and boring.
concept · What's New With Kubectl and Kustomize... Marly Salazar, Arda Guclu, Maciej Szulik & Eddie Zaneski. SIG CLI update on new features in kubectl and Kustomize.
concept · Mission Abort: Intercepting Dangerous Deletes Before Helm Hits Apply - Payal Godhani, Oracle. Presents a way to intercept dangerous resource deletions before Helm applies a change.
concept · Supercharge Your Canary Deployments With Argo Rollouts St... Kostis Kapelonis & Alexandre Gaudreault
concept · GitOps Without Variables - Brian Grant & Alexis Richardson, ConfigHub Inc.
concept · You Deployed What?! Data-Driven Lessons on Unsafe Helm Chart Defaults - Yossi Weizman, Microsoft
concept · GitOps for AI Agents: Building Reliable AI Pipelines With Argo - Benji Kalman & Shiran Melamed. Explains using GitOps with Argo to build reliable AI agent pipelines.
concept · GitOps and the Manifest Dilemma: Helm, Kustomize, Crossplane, Kro, and Beyond - Dag Bjerre Andersen
concept · Turbocharging Argo CD: Replacing Redis With Dragonfly for... Soumya Ghosh Dastidar & Justin Marquis
concept · Bringing OCI Into the GitOps World - Jesse Suen, Akuity
concept · AI-Assisted GitOps With Flux MCP Server - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
concept · Offline, Not Off-Limits: Edge Fleet Management With Argo CD - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity
concept · Introducing Helm 4 - Matt Farina & Robert Sirchia, SUSE
concept · Flux - The GitLess GitOps Edition - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Dipti Pai, Microsoft
concept · Unveiling Automation: How Mercantil Transformed Data Streaming With Strimzi, Argo... Marcelo Costa
concept · Simplifying Advanced AI Model Serving on Kubernetes Using Helm... Ajay Vohra & Tianlu Caron Zhang
concept · Project Lightning Talk: GitOps With Or Without Git Using Flux - Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 ¶

case study · 8 Million Tasks Daily: Driving Efficiency in Multi-Tenant Data... JIanxiang Sun & Shuangkun Tian. Reports on running 8 million tasks daily in a multi-tenant data platform and the efficiency gains achieved.
concept · Building a Multi-Cluster Progressive Delivery Platform with Karmada & Argo - Zhuang Zhang
concept · Evolving Argo Workflows for AI: New Features, Tuning, and Multi-Tenant... Shuangkun Tian & Yashi Su

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 ¶

case study · From Jenkins to Tekton: Our Journey Toward a Kubernetes-Native CI... Mustafa Barış Ege & Özge Aygül
case study · From “No Time for GitOps” to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux... Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei
case study · From GitOps to AIOps: Evolving RBI's Kubernetes Platform with Cross... Gabor Horvath & Ewald Überall
concept · Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environ... Matteo Bianchi & Stefan Prodan
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD Source Hydrator: Rendered Manifests Made Easy! - Michael Crenshaw
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Argo Workflows 4, What's New And What's Next - Alan Clucas, Lead
concept · Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - Gitops For All Sizes - Matheus Pimenta, Maintainer
concept · Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
concept · Beyond the Edge: Cloud Native Application Management Under Ex... Tobias Nöthlich & Maximilian Nitsch. Covers managing cloud native applications under extreme edge conditions such as poor connectivity.
concept · Helm 4 Is Here. So, Now What? - Andrew Block, Red Hat; Scott Rigby, Replicated; Robert Sirchia, SUSE
concept · The 10x DevOps Engineer’s Toolkit: Argo CD + AI-Dr... Alexander Matyushentsev & Leonardo Luz Almeida
concept · What's New With Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You... Marly S, Yugo K, Eddie Z, Maciej S & Arda G
tutorial · Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Introduction to GitOps - Chris Plank, NatWest

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 ¶

case study · From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD... Chamod Perera & Shivay Lamba
case study · Introducing OCI Webhook Support in Argo CD: From Polling To Real-Time - Nitish Kumar, Akuity — Akuity
case study · Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer — Maintainer
concept · Project Lightning Talk: GitOps Without Boundaries: Deploy to Infrastructur... Eeshaan Shreyas Sawant
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Project Update: Gitless GitOps, Satellite at the E... Prasanth Baskar. Lightning project update on Harbor covering gitless GitOps and satellite registries at the edge.
concept · Lightning Talk: Secure GitOps for Regulated Workloads: Argo CD Meets Confidential... Jitendra Singh

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 ¶

case study · From User To Contributor: A Quick Guide To Kubectl & Kustomize - Yugo Kobayashi & Maciej Szulik
case study · Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Akuity — Akuity
case study · Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison. Speakers share patterns and lessons from scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes with Cluster API, arguing against starting with hundreds of clusters.
concept · OCI Is Not Git: Rethinking the GitOps Source of Truth for a Kubernetes-Native… M. Crenshaw & R. Lieb. Argues that OCI artifacts, not Git, should be rethought as the GitOps source of truth.
concept · The Evolution of GitOps in Platform Engineering - Artem Lajko, iits

2026 · Sneak Peek: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 ¶

concept · Meet Scott Rigby, Andrew Block, & George Jenkins - Speakers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA