Argo, with Jesse Suen

Mar 17, 2022

The Argo project is a set of four tools to help “get stuff done” with Kubernetes: Workflows, CD, Rollouts and Events. Jesse Suen is a creator of the Argo project and co-founder and CTO of Akuity, a company set up to provide commercial support for it.

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Chatter of the week

• Daylight saving time
• Container ship follow-up

News of the week

• Backstage and in-toto join the CNCF
  • Episode 136, with Lee Mills and Matt Clark
  • Episode 155, with Priya Wadhwa
• Gloo Mesh 2.0 announced at SoloCon
  • The New Stack coverage
• Linkerd failover operator
• cr8escape vulnerability in CRI-O
• GKE Autopilot vulnerabilities disclosed by Palo Alto Networks
• Updated Kubernetes hardening guide (PDF)
• KubeCon EU 2022 schedule
  • Inside the numbers
• CNCF Observability micro-survey
• run:AI raises $75m

Links from the interview

• Argo Project
• Argo (film)
• Jason and the Argonauts
• Applatix
  • Pratik Wadher and Rahul Dhide
• Argo Workflows
• Applatix acquired by Intuit; Intuit acquired Applatix
  • Marianna Tessel
• Alex Matyushentsev
• The archived Argo CI
• Argo CD
• Argo Rollouts
• GitOps Engine:
  • Flux CD
  • Argo and Flux joining forces
  • First release of the GitOps Engine
  • FAQ about why this didn’t work out
• Remote vs Core
• Argo Events
  • Original BlackRock announcement
• Argo in the CNCF
• Akuity
  • The many Aaron Court Motels
• App of Apps
• ApplicationSets
• Join the CNCF Slack
• Argo Workflows and CD community meetings
• Jesse Suen on Twitter