GitOps at Adobe - Tips from the Trenches

Explore Adobe's journey in implementing GitOps through this 33-minute conference talk by Larisa Andreea Danaila and Ionut-Maxim Margelatu. Discover how they invested in GitOps throughout 2022, modeling a deployment system that adheres to strict organizational CI/CD standards. Learn about their transition from Spinnaker to Argo projects, rebuilding deployment pipelines from scratch. Gain insights into overcoming challenges such as code promotion across environments, automated rollbacks, and deployment validation through functional tests. Understand how they refined deployment pipelines to accommodate various application types, including web, streaming, and batch services. Delve into emerging practices for testing infrastructure changes, eliminating manifest duplication, improving auditing, and enhancing deployment visibility. Hear firsthand how Adobe addressed concerns about moving to a GitOps paradigm and successfully adopted Argo, paving the way for company-wide implementation.