Carlos Santana - AWS

Argo at Enterprise Scale: Automating Hundreds of Cluster Deployments with GitOps

Abstract

In order to manage a Kubernetes fleet of clusters Kubernetes enterprise end users has embraced GitOps at a massive scale. Leveraging Cluster API (CAPI), Amazon Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Prometheus and other Kubernetes controllers, fleet management was changed from a heavy burden to a tactical advantage. This talk covers what are top learnings of using GitOps in a way that is able to be used in production across a large organization, integrating CNCF projects have helped them scale the operations with a relatively small staff of engineers. You’ll see how through an exclusively open source toolchain end users are able to deploy thousands of changes a month, safely, securely, and with confidence.

Speaker Bio

Carlos Santana is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS leading Container solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization GTM team. He has more than 20 years of experience in distributed systems, open source, devops, containers, gitops, kubernetes and serverless. He is a CNCF Ambassador and contributor to CNCF projects such as Kubernetes and ArgoCD. Find him on BlueSky @santana.dev or his Kubernetes BookClub https://santana.dev