GitOpsCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on GitOps. This event is aimed at audiences that are new to GitOps as well as those currently using GitOps within their organization. Get connected with others that are passionate about GitOps. Learn from practitioners about pitfalls to avoid, hurdles to jump, and how to adopt GitOps in your cloud native environment.
When
Thursday, December 4, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC)
Agenda
5:00 PM
Opening and Welcome
Welcome to GitOpsCon!
5:10 PM
Multi-cluster, multi-apps, multi-value deployments using Argo CD Application Sets - Kostis Kapelonis, Octopusdeploy
Getting started with Argo CD sounds easy. Right? You just install Argo CD, point it to your Git repositories and you are ready! Well, not so fast. Deploying a single application to many clusters or many applications to a single cluster is straightforward. But what about many applications to many clusters and with different settings?
Teams that have discovered Application Sets are employing Argo CD in multi-cluster setups with success. But as soon as more requirements roll in, you have the problem where two “similar” clusters are not the same anymore. This application has different settings here, and that cluster has an extra configuration variable there and so on. Can you still use application sets?
The answer is yes! In this talk, we will see advanced forms of Application Sets that allow you not only to distribute your applications across different clusters but also to decide exactly what settings each application will have on each individual cluster.
5:45 PM
GitOps and KRO: A New Way to Control Cloud Infra - Cansu Kavili Örnek, Red Hat and Koray Oksay, Kubermatic
Kubernetes is not just for running your workload anymore. It's a powerful tool for managing all cloud infrastructure, leveraging other components and, of course, the GitOps approach. In this talk, we'll introduce KRO (Kubernetes Resource Operator), a new lightweight tool designed to bridge GitOps with cloud-native resource management.
Through a live demo and real-world patterns, you'll see how KRO empowers platform teams to build minimalist, Kubernetes-native infrastructure platforms — all managed through Git, all reconciled automatically.
6:15 PM
Break
6:25 PM
GitOps Interoperability with CDEvents: Connecting the Disconnected - Luke Philips, New York Times
GitOps promises declarative, auditable deployments, but what happens when your GitOps tools need to integrate with a broader Application Delivery platform? Your CI or CD systems, compliance platforms, and business workflows? Avoid unnecessarily complex integrations and choose interoperability. This quick session introduces CDEvents - a CDF specification for interoperability. A bridge between GitOps and enterprise toolchains.
Building off of a proposal in ArgoCD and a Flux capability, I’ll cover a brief mapping between an existing GitOps flow and how it might interoperate with cdEvents messaging.
Covering a technical implementation of CDEvents with ArgoCD, including event mapping strategies, delivery patterns, and observability improvements. Showing how CDEvents transforms GitOps from an isolated practice into an integrated enterprise capability.
7:00 PM
From Policy to Production: Implementing ISO27001/BSI IT-Grundschutz in Kubernetes with GitOps - Marcus Ross, Hamburg Port Authority AöR
How do you bridge the gap between strict compliance requirements (like Germany’s BSI IT-Grundschutz/ISO27001) and dynamic Kubernetes environments? Using a real-world case study from the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), this lightning talk demonstrates how GitOps and open-source tools can automate compliance for critical security controls—without sacrificing agility.
We’ll spotlight two key IT-Grundschutz/ISO27001 building blocks and their GitOps-powered implementations:
- APP.4.4.A2 (CI/CD Automation): Secure scaleable setup via Templateing/Kyverno/ArgoCD.
- APP.4.4.A13 (Automated Configuration Auditing): Continuous compliance checks via tools like Trivy, Kyverno and ArgoCD through GitOps workflows.
Why this talk?
Most compliance discussions focus on what to secure—this talk shows how to do it scalably with GitOps, using a high-stakes public-sector example. Attendees will leave with a blueprint to turn audit checklists into automated guardrails.
7:35 PM
When Git Push Meets Human Pushback: The Culture of GitOpS - Shahar Shporer, Sheba
When people talk about GitOps, they usually focus on tech and the tools: ArgoCD, terragrunt, pulumi, github action, Helm, secrets management. But what makes or breaks a GitOps implementation isn’t technology - it’s the teams trust.
In this talk, I’ll share how introducing GitOps into complex environments (including regulated, hybrid on-prem and cloud systems) reshaped the relationship between developers and operations. We’ll look at real stories: moments where GitOps helped developers take ownership of deployments, and moments where everything broke down because work processes, expectations, or communication weren’t aligned.
We’ll talk about practical techniques and issues like:
-Defining clear ownership boundaries in a GitOps world
-Avoiding the “Ops gatekeeper” trap while keeping systems secure
-Creating safe feedback loops that build confidence in GitOps pipelines
-Using GitOps as a tool for culture change, not just automation
Whether you’re just getting started with GitOps or scaling it across hundreds of services, this talk will give you frameworks you can take back to your teams to make GitOps a cultural success, and not just a technical one.
8:05 PM
Closing Remarks
GitOpsCon CFP
Submissions due September 14, 2025 at 23:59pm (UTC)
Suggested Session Topics:
End user talks Around GitOps Implementations
How to Implement Advanced Deployments
How to Solve Edge Cases Around GitOps
Stories of How GitOps Helped and Where Systems Broke Down
Uses of Open Source Tooling to Achieve GitOps
Convincing Larger Org to Adopt GitOps
New! Securing Environments with GitOps
New! AI/ML
DATES TO REMEMBER
CFP Notifications: October 6, 2025
Schedule Announcement: October 8, 2025
Event Date: December 4, 2025
