GitOps has been around for a few years now, and available tools have matured. With ArgoCD, a single CNCF-graduated project provides a UI, CLI, and many advanced features for templating, customizations, and multi-cluster operations.
But which aspects are great, and which are just noise or nice to have?

In this workshop, attendees will catch a glimpse at different strengths and weaknesses of ArgoCD and apply them hands-on in interactive labs, enabling them to make up their own minds.

In bite-sized sections, topics like ArgoCD's architecture and first steps will be covered as well as the utilization of the project's CLI and more advanced deployment scenarios.

By the end of the session, terms like 'projects', 'application sets', or 'app of apps' won't be mysterious concepts anymore, but first-hand experiences.

Attendees may take their clusters home with them. 😉

...is what Harry Potter gets told when trying to get to platform 9 3/4 for the first time. And sometimes, going at a higher pace and stop overthinking stuff is a great strategy when we're under stress, uncertain of where we're heading, or just getting started with new things.
After all, there's all sorts of walls to run into (or better: through) in life - DevOps itself has often been described as overcoming the wall between Dev and Ops - but there's more: The wall between junior and senior, the wall between using and contributing to projects and communities, and so on.
This ignite is about my personal experiences of doing 'a bit of a run' in different situations throughout my (short) career in tech.