GitOpsCon NA 2025

Presenters Marcus Ross Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 ⚓ Smooth Sailing Through Regulatory Storms: How GitOps Powers the Hamburg Port Authority In the world of global logistics, the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) is a titan. Managing Germany’s largest seaport and Europe’s premier rail port isn’t just about moving containers; it is about securing the digital backbone of critical infrastructure. When Marcus Ross, Lead for the Cloud Center of Excellence at the HPA, took the stage recently, he revealed a startling reality: his team isn’t just fighting hackers—they are navigating a 1,000-page mountain of security regulations. Here is how they use GitOps as their “hidden champion” to stay compliant, secure, and agile. 🌊🚢 ...

Presenters Cansu Kavili Örnek Koray Oksay Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 From YAML Nightmares to Platform Nirvana: Introducing KRO 🚀 If you have spent any time in the trenches of platform engineering lately, you know the struggle is real. We are all searching for that “Goldilocks” zone: a platform that is powerful enough for engineers but simple enough that developers do not need a PhD in Kubernetes just to deploy a microservice. ...

Presenters Luke Philips Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 🌐 Bridging the Gap: How CD Events are Revolutionizing GitOps and Application Delivery In the fast-paced world of cloud-native development, we’ve moved far beyond the days of a simple script pushing code to a server. Today, the journey from a Git commit to a production deployment is more like navigating a high-speed, multi-lane highway system than a quiet country road. 🏎️ At a recent industry presentation, Luke Phillips, Principal Software Engineer, took the stage to address a growing pain point in our industry: the fragmentation of our delivery pipelines. His solution? A standardized, vendor-neutral language called CD Events. ...

Presenters Kostis Kapelonis Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 🚀 Scaling GitOps: Mastering Argo CD Application Sets for Multi-Cluster Management In the world of Kubernetes, Argo CD has earned its reputation as a premier CNCF project. While its sleek UI is often the “hook” that helps developers visualize resource dependencies and finally understand their clusters, the real magic happens under the hood. According to Kostis, a Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy and a core member of the Argo team, moving from a hobbyist homelab to a battle-hardened production environment requires a shift in strategy. The secret weapon? Application Sets. ...

Presenters Shahar Shporer Source GitOpsCon NA 2025 🚀 From Chaos to Collaboration: A Hospital’s GitOps Transformation & the Human Factor 🏥 Let’s face it: adopting new technologies is rarely just about the tech. It’s about people. Shahar, a DevOps Architect and Platform Engineer at Sheba Hospital, shared a fantastic story at the conference about their journey to GitOps – and it was a masterclass in navigating the human side of change. This isn’t just a tale of Argo CD and Flux; it’s a story of empathy, enablement, and understanding the “archetypes” of resistance. ...