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@laura_garcia shared a post, 6 months, 1 week ago

Software Developer, RELIANOID

Tesco’s latest outage is a reminder: uptime IS the customer experience.

Shoppers across the UK faced checkout failures, broken order updates, and Clubcard access issues as Tesco’s digital platforms suffered “intermittent” instability. In modern retail, even brief disruptions damage trust, loyalty, and sales. At RELIANOID, we help retailers stay resilient with intelligen..

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Customer Marketing Manager, Last9

Instrumentation: Getting Signals In

See how instrumentation in OpenTelemetry helps track app issues, know the difference between auto and manual methods, and when to use them.

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@devopslinks added a new tool Syft , 6 months, 1 week ago.

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@kaptain added a new tool KubeLinter , 6 months, 1 week ago.

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@devopslinks added a new tool Grype , 6 months, 1 week ago.

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@kaptain added a new tool Hadolint , 6 months, 1 week ago.

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@varbear added a new tool Bandit , 6 months, 1 week ago.

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@devopslinks added a new tool JFrog Xray , 6 months, 1 week ago.

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@devopslinks added a new tool OWASP Dependency-Check , 6 months, 1 week ago.

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@varbear added a new tool pre-commit , 6 months, 1 week ago.

At its core, Argo CD treats Git as the single source of truth for application definitions. You declare the desired state of your Kubernetes applications in Git (manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize overlays), and Argo CD continuously compares that desired state with what is actually running in the cluster. When drift is detected, it can alert you or automatically reconcile the cluster back to the Git-defined state.

Argo CD runs inside Kubernetes and provides:

- Declarative application management
- Automated or manual sync from Git to cluster
- Continuous drift detection and health assessment
- Rollbacks by reverting Git commits
- Fine-grained RBAC and multi-cluster support

It integrates natively with common Kubernetes configuration formats:

- Plain YAML
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Jsonnet

Operationally, Argo CD exposes both a web UI and CLI, making it easy to visualize application state, deployment history, diffs, and sync status. It is commonly used in platform engineering and SRE teams to standardize deployments, reduce configuration drift, and enforce auditability.

Argo CD is part of the Argo Project, which is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and is widely adopted in production Kubernetes environments ranging from startups to large enterprises.