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Ground Control To Cloud Native: Safe Deployments for a Growing SAR Satellite Constellation - Upendra Gurugubelli & Masaya Arai, Synspective Inc.
When your Kubernetes deployments must avoid interrupting a live satellite link 500km above Earth, standard rollout strategies fall short. Synspective operates a constellation of SAR observation satellites where ground systems maintain stateful connections during passes. A deployment at the wrong moment risks losing contact with a satellite in orbit. Each satellite has different communication windows, and as the constellation scales toward 30+ satellites by 2030, manual coordination becomes impossible.
This session presents how Synspective adopted cloud native practices across two mission-critical ground subsystems. First, how Argo CD replaced manual CIOps with declarative GitOps pipelines, delivering auditable, reproducible deployments across multiple environments. Second, how Argo Rollouts enables progressive delivery gated by real-time satellite pass schedules (AOS/LOS windows) from ground station APIs, ensuring releases never interrupt active communications.
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
Ground Control To Cloud Native: Safe Deployments for a Growing SAR Satellite Constellation - Upendra Gurugubelli & Masaya Arai, Synspective Inc.
When your Kubernetes deployments must avoid interrupting a live satellite link 500km above Earth, standard rollout strategies fall short. Synspective operates a constellation of SAR observation satellites where ground systems maintain stateful connections during passes. A deployment at the wrong moment risks losing contact with a satellite in orbit. Each satellite has different communication windows, and as the constellation scales toward 30+ satellites by 2030, manual coordination becomes impossible.
This session presents how Synspective adopted cloud native practices across two mission-critical ground subsystems. First, how Argo CD replaced manual CIOps with declarative GitOps pipelines, delivering auditable, reproducible deployments across multiple environments. Second, how Argo Rollouts enables progressive delivery gated by real-time satellite pass schedules (AOS/LOS windows) from ground station APIs, ensuring releases never interrupt active communications.
