Managing Millions of Storage Volumes at Scale: Inside DigitalOcean's ArgoCD Strategy
When you're managing millions of storage volumes across 13 regions, traditional deployment approaches break down. At DigitalOcean, we transformed our Storage Platform operations using ArgoCD to bring sanity to complexity.
In this talk, we'll share how DigitalOcean's Storage Platform team turned our deployment process into a GitOps-powered engine using ArgoCD. We'll take you behind the scenes of operating our Storage Kubernetes platform, StorK8s, our storage orchestration platform that powers millions of volumes across DigitalOcean's global infrastructure.
You’ll learn:
- How we architected a single ArgoCD instance to manage 13+ clusters across 13 regions while maintaining sub-5-minute deployment times.
- Real-world canary and blue-green deployment patterns for stateful workloads.
- Why centralised GitOps beats federation for our use case (and when you shouldn't follow our lead)
We’ll share what worked, what didn’t, and secret ingredients that helped us scale GitOps reliably.
