ArgoCD GitOps deployment flow

ArgoCD for Beginners: Your First GitOps Deployment

Here is the thing I never want to do again: ask a cluster what it is running and not trust the answer. For years that was normal. Someone ran kubectl apply, maybe from a laptop, maybe from a CI job nobody could find anymore, and the live state slowly drifted away from anything written down. When I switched to GitOps, that whole category of uncertainty disappeared. I push to Git, and the cluster converges to match. If I want to know what is deployed, I read a file. ...

March 16, 2025 · 8 min read · Tom Meurs