ArgoCon North America 2026: what attendees should expect as the community begins planning Argo CD 4.0

Argo today is four related projects: Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, and Argo Events. Teams frequently use them together but each has distinct responsibilities and independent uses. The projects act like building blocks that teams assemble to match their platform and delivery needs. Past community presentations have ranged widely: running Argo CD on satellite architectures, scaling Argo CD past 60,000 applications, and using Argo Workflows for large-scale machine learning and data processing.

ArgoCon North America 2026 is scheduled as a full-day, two-track program. The day will open with maintainers delivering keynotes that cover recent changes and the near-term roadmap, including the community's initial visioning for Argo CD 4.0. After keynotes, sessions will alternate between project-focused talks and cross-project case studies. Breaks and refreshments are built into the schedule to facilitate follow-up conversations with maintainers, contributors, and other attendees.

Sessions are aimed at practical gains: ways to improve software delivery, patterns for managing data and ML pipelines with Argo Workflows, and progressive delivery techniques using Argo Rollouts. Talks will include both success stories and postmortems where deployments did not go as expected. Attendees should come away with concrete approaches, configuration and scaling tips, and a clearer picture of upcoming features across the Argo projects.

ArgoCon is targeted at operators, platform teams, administrators, engineering leaders, and practitioners who directly run or design systems using Argo. It is relevant whether you already run Argo in production or want to learn how other teams solve delivery and workflow problems.

No technical homework is required. The organizers recommend arriving with specific questions, persistent problems, or implementation stories you want to discuss. Sharing those practical experiences helps maintainers and the wider community shape the projects' directions, including the conversation around Argo CD 4.0.

ArgoCon first started as a virtual event that attracted nearly 4,000 attendees and included the project's creator and maintainers. Since then it has run as both standalone and co-located events across multiple continents. The North America 2026 edition is positioned to give attendees a deeper dive than what's available at the broader KubeCon program, with an emphasis on hands-on lessons and roadmap conversation.