Level up your GitOps deployments with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts

In this hands-on workshop, we will show practical GitOps applications using the most popular CD tool, Argo CD and also demonstrate progressive delivery scenarios with Argo Rollouts (Blue/Green, Canaries) ### Who should attend ### DevOps engineers, platform engineers, cloud engineers, and technical leads who want a practical, guided introduction to Argo CD/Rollouts. Depending on the level of the audience we can also go over more advanced examples such as finalizers, PR generators, ApplicationSets etc. ### What you'll learn ### By the end of this workshop, you will: - Understand the different sync strategies of Argo CD - Know how to groups applications with App-of-apps and application sets - Comprehend how the centralized (hub-and-spoke) model of Argo CD can be used - Learn about doing fully automated rollbacks with blue/green and canary deployments ### How it works ### The workshop is hands-on exercises with discussion about the concepts demonstrated. You will get access to an on-line certification platform that you can finish on your own pace even after the workshop ends. ### How to prepare ### You bring the laptop, we give you the environment. Nothing else needed (except a Github account). ### What we expect from you ### - Basic Kubernetes knowledge: you can use kubectl, you know what a Deployment and a Service are, and you've heard of CRDs and controllers - A basic understanding of Argo CD is helpful but not required. ### Bonus #### What we can optionally showcase: - Diff customization - Sync phases and sync waves - Promotion strategies - Helm Hierarchies - Preview environments - Secret management