The Mastering GitOps online conference organized by iX and dpunkt.verlag is entering the hot registration phase: tickets are still available up to and including June 3, 2026 at the early bird price of 249 euros (plus VAT). The one-day event on June 25, 2026 is aimed at software developers, DevOps engineers and platform teams who want to make their deployment pipelines more resilient, secure and traceable. The focus is, among other things, on automating and scaling GitOps.
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From deployment tool to the foundation of platform engineering
In terms of content, the program focuses on the development of GitOps into the main operating model for platform engineering, multi-cluster setups and progressive delivery. Tools such as Argo CD, Flux, Kargo, Pulumi and Crossplane continue to form the backbone of modern GitOps stacks, complemented by approaches such as policy-driven GitOps.
Regina (Reggie) Voloshin, Argo CD Maintainer bei Octopus Deploy
Artem Lajko, Head of Platform Engineering at iits consulting, will kick things off with an inventory of the GitOps evolution – from the lean declarative deployment strategy to the central building block of modern developer platforms. In her lecture “Eliminating Hidden Argo CD Pitfalls in Your GitOps Workflow,” Regina Voloshin from Octopus Deploy, maintainer of Argo CD, addresses the typical pitfalls of productive use: scaling problems in large multi-cluster environments, secure secrets management and dealing with configuration drift, i.e. the deviations between the actual cluster state and the target state declared in Git.
Autopilot, faster previews and rendered manifests
Thorsten Wussow (Slix) shows how GitOps can be transferred to autopilot mode with the Flux Operator. Dag Bjerre Andersen (Egmont) and Sergey Shevchenko (TangoMe) demonstrate in a joint talk how the preview of pull request changes can be noticeably accelerated with Argo CD.
Christian Hernandez from Cisco looks at the rendered manifests pattern in conjunction with OCI registries. Instead of resolving Helm charts or Kustomize overlays at runtime, finished Kubernetes manifests are rendered in advance and stored as immutable artifacts in OCI registries. This eliminates runtime mutations caused by Argo CD and creates a clear single source of truth. Since Argo CD 3.1, OCI registries have been natively supported – a plus for traceability, auditability and team collaboration.
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Practical report from Zeiss: DORA metrics in backstage
Alexander Troppmann from Carl Zeiss describes how GitOps can be scaled in an industrial group. His team runs Argo CD in a multi-tenant architecture as the core of the group-wide platform engineering project. The DORA metrics Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate and Failed Deployment Recovery Time come together in Backstage as a single source of truth and are transferred to the GitOps world via custom tooling. In this way, development teams continuously measure their deployment performance while keeping an eye on platform costs.
Alexander Troppmann, Carl Zeiss
Secure early bird tickets until June 3, 2026
If you would like to book a ticket at the early bird price of 249 euros, you have until June 3, 2026, after which it costs 299 euros (plus VAT). Teams of three or more benefit from group discounts. If you would like to stay up to date on the progress of the Mastering GitOps conference, you can register for the newsletter on the website. The current hashtag on social media is #masteringgitops.
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