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Configuring Argo CD Is Messy: Here's How We Can Fix It - Michael Crenshaw, Intuit
Argo CD is a powerful system with a lot of configuration options. You can tune performance settings, configure security restrictions, customize the UI, and much more. The configuration options are exposed via many different interfaces such as ConfigMaps, CLI flags, and environment variables. It's often difficult to discover settings, understand the available options, and determine the defaults.
This fractured configuration landscape also makes Argo CD difficult to maintain. It's difficult to understand which settings should be exposed where, how to document them, how they affect multi-tenancy, etc.
Improving Argo CD's configuration experience is a huge challenge. But with careful planning, we can do it!
Argo CD lead maintainer Michael Crenshaw will walk the audience through a proposal to allow configuring Argo CD via a new Custom Resource Definition. He'll walk through the various requirements: backwards compatibility, per-component configuration, migration path, etc.; and he'll describe the design decisions that come from each requirement.
The audience will learn a lot about how Argo CD works and will get a glimpse into a bright future where configuring Argo is fun and easy!
Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026) and Salt Lake City, United States (Nov 9–12, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at kubecon.io
Configuring Argo CD Is Messy: Here's How We Can Fix It - Michael Crenshaw, Intuit
Argo CD is a powerful system with a lot of configuration options. You can tune performance settings, configure security restrictions, customize the UI, and much more. The configuration options are exposed via many different interfaces such as ConfigMaps, CLI flags, and environment variables. It's often difficult to discover settings, understand the available options, and determine the defaults.
This fractured configuration landscape also makes Argo CD difficult to maintain. It's difficult to understand which settings should be exposed where, how to document them, how they affect multi-tenancy, etc.
Improving Argo CD's configuration experience is a huge challenge. But with careful planning, we can do it!
Argo CD lead maintainer Michael Crenshaw will walk the audience through a proposal to allow configuring Argo CD via a new Custom Resource Definition. He'll walk through the various requirements: backwards compatibility, per-component configuration, migration path, etc.; and he'll describe the design decisions that come from each requirement.
The audience will learn a lot about how Argo CD works and will get a glimpse into a bright future where configuring Argo is fun and easy!
