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Argo CD: Up and Running
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Argo CD: Up and Running

by Andrew Block, Christian Hernandez
June 2025
Beginner to intermediate
310 pages
7h 59m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Cloud native technologies, regardless of where they reside (on the public cloud or in a private datacenter) continue to proliferate. For those running containerized applications, Kubernetes has become the de facto solution for running and managing these applications at scale and, as a result, several different architectural patterns have emerged over time. GitOps is one such pattern that describes a set of processes for managing infrastructure and applications within source code stored within a Git repository. While GitOps is not exclusive to Kubernetes, it has strong ties to Kubernetes, as the practices and principles have become the cornerstone for managing the platform.

While GitOps provides a framework that defines how to align infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts for managing resources using content stored within source code management tools, there is still a need for a tool that can realize these goals and the declarative nature of the content. In the world of Kubernetes, Argo CD has become one of the most popular tools for implementing GitOps paradigms. Given its broad adoption within the Kubernetes community for use by both infrastructure and application teams, having an understanding of how it can be used effectively is essential.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is primarily written for Kubernetes administrators and developers who want to utilize GitOps practices to improve the user experience around cloud native technologies, along with those looking to ...

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