GitOps the Hard Way, with Argo CD

What's Next?

You finished "GitOps the Hard Way, with Argo CD". You did not just read about a synced Application, you built one, broke it, and watched the controller reconcile it back.

By now you can install Argo CD and stand up an HA setup, structure a fleet with App-of-Apps and ApplicationSet, lock down access with projects and RBAC, wire sync waves and hooks, and work out why an Application sits OutOfSync instead of guessing. You have also met the places it bites: secrets that do not belong in Git, drift from mutating webhooks, a self-heal loop fighting an HPA, a repo-server starved for memory. Those scars are worth more than any clean happy-path walkthrough.