gitops
Posts tagged "gitops"
In-depth articles from the OrchesTerra engineering team.
ArgoCD
Multi-Cluster Argo CD: One Control Plane, Many Destinations, Fewer Foot-Guns
Hub-and-spoke vs per-cluster Argo CD, Application destination vs ApplicationSet, secrets, and the RBAC mistakes that let staging sync prod.
2026-09-05 · 4 min read
ArgoCD
Argo CD Sync Waves: Ordering Kubernetes Applies Without Hooks Spaghetti
How sync waves and sync phases actually work, when to use them instead of PreSync hooks, and the failure modes that leave apps stuck OutOfSync.
2026-09-02 · 5 min read
Kubernetes
External Secrets Operator: Stop Committing Sealed Blobs to Git
A practical ESO setup: ClusterSecretStore, ExternalSecret refresh, IRSA/Workload Identity, and the failure modes that look like “the app has empty env vars.”
2026-08-22 · 4 min read
Kubernetes
Kubernetes GitOps Best Practices for Platform Teams
Patterns for building reliable, auditable GitOps workflows on Kubernetes—covering repository structure, reconciliation hygiene, and governance gates.
2026-08-10 · 2 min read