A Million Ways To Promote Changes Between Environments

This conference talk explores the challenges and solutions for promoting changes between environments in cloud-native applications. Dan Garfield from Codefresh by Octopus Deploy and Viktor Farcic from Upbound discuss the GitOps revolution enabled by Argo CD and focus on the next major challenge: managing promotions across different environments. Discover various approaches including CI-driven updates, Image Updater, Progressive Sync, Kargo, Environment and Promotions, and Rendered Manifest Pattern, with an analysis of their benefits and pitfalls. Learn from this honest assessment of environment promotion strategies as Viktor Farcic brings his characteristic critical perspective to evaluate the nuances of change management in modern deployment workflows.