At the spring 2019 Kubernetes and Cloud Native Meetup in Montreal, Jean-Philippe Belanger from Upgrade presented 'GitOps with ArgoCD.'

1. by Jean-Philippe Bélanger
Devops “not an engineer” @ Upgrade
Kubernetes and cloud native meetup
May 2019
GitOps w/ ArgoCD

2. What is GitOps

3. Allows for simplified continuous
delivery. Which in turn lower
the “Mean Time to Deployment”
Offer easy interface for user to
act on the system. Hide the
complexity of the system with
tooling that everyone knows.
Since all change comes from
one system, offer a higher
stability from possible conflicts
of multiple source of changes.
Always kept in sync.
Productivity Enhanced Experience Stability
Benefits of GitOps

4. In case of problem, rollback is
as easy as revert commit in Git.
Single source of truth simplifies
the process and reduce delays
One entry point for changes.
Everything is driven thru a
commit in a Git repository.
Everything is describe at one
place (Single pane of glass).
PR - Review - Merge - Apply
Leveraging Git build-in security
and signature. Allows for easy
tracking of changes and their
approvals.
Reliability Consistency Security / Audit
Benefits of GitOps

5. Upgrade’s workflow

6. Intuit’s Argo Project
Container native workflow
engine for Kubernetes
supporting both DAG and
step based workflows.
Workflow
Event-Based Dependency
Manager for Kubernetes.
Events CD
Declarative Continuous
Delivery for Kubernetes.

7. ArgoCD architecture

8. Demo

9. Questions?