Amazon EKS Workshop: GitOps Deployments with Argo CD and Continuous Promotion [Hands-On Masterclass]

In this expert-led workshop, Christian Hernandez (Argo Project Maintainer, Head of Community at Akuity), Anjelica Ambrosio (Technical Evangelist at Akuity), and Patrick Vassell (Partner Solution Architect at AWS) walk through deploying and managing GitOps workflows at scale using Amazon EKS, Argo CD, and Kargo.

As teams adopt GitOps across cloud-native infrastructure, scaling across environments introduces new challenges: managing promotions, ensuring secure multi-cluster delivery, and avoiding the pitfalls of hub-and-spoke architectures. This workshop delivers a hands-on demo and real-world solutions built for platform engineers.

What you’ll learn:
How to deploy Argo CD on Amazon EKS
Agent-based GitOps architecture for scalability
Continuous promotion with Kargo
GitOps workflows across multiple clusters
Real-world rollout and delivery patterns

Workshop Resources:
Workshop Link: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.worksh...
Survey: https://amazonmr.au1.qualtrics.com/jf...
Argo CD Up and Running: https://landing.akuity.io/resources/a...

Timestamps:
4:10 – Overview of “ArgoCD Up & Running” Hands-On Book
8:04 – Akuity Platform Architecture & Continuous Promotion with Kargo
20:15 – Multi-Cluster GitOps with Agent-Based Architecture
27:00 – Live Amazon EKS Deployment Workshop
51:05 – Creating Your Akuity Account & Setting Up Argo CD
1:00:15 – Building and Syncing Your First Argo CD Application
1:07:00 – Enabling Auto-Sync, Self-Healing & Multi-Stage Deployments
1:11:00 – Advanced GitOps with Kargo: Promotion, Warehouses, & Stages
1:23:00 – CloudWatch Verification, Final Recap & Resources

Ready to scale GitOps further? Explore these resources:
Upcoming AWS Webinar in July: https://landing.akuity.io/webinar/ent...
Akuity Add-On on the AWS Marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp...
Try the Akuity Platform → https://akuity.io/
Kargo GitHub Repo → https://github.com/akuity/kargo
Argo CD GitHub → https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd
Join the Akuity Community →   / discord  
Explore more GitOps resources → https://akuity.io/blog

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