Space Age GitOps: Lifting off with Argo Promotions (Live Demo!) - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller

Space Age GitOps: Lifting off with Argo Promotions (Live Demo!) - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit GitOps is an industry standard best practice in the Kubernetes space. But there are still gaps in the developer experience. Change previews and environment promotion have been two of the main pain points. Upcoming Argo CD features fill this gap by providing automated change previews as PR comments and by managing environment promotion by automatically opening and merging pull requests. This talk presents a live demo of these new Argo CD features. We’ll show you how change previews will help your developers merge changes faster and with more confidence; we’ll show how you can design a change promotion strategy tailored to your organization’s needs; and we’ll show how your developers can monitor change promotions via the Argo CD UI. Promotion-by-PR is one of several options for managing GitOps promotions. Besides showing a demo, we’ll compare and contrast this strategy with other open source and vendor-based solutions so that the audience can select the system that matches their needs.