2025-11-08 –, Theater
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.
This talk gives the community a real-world end user story, large-scale example of GitOps in action using ArgoCD to manage complex, stateful workloads.
By sharing lessons learned from operating across 13+ regions, we’ll show how CNCF open source tools can handle high-stakes infrastructure without compromising velocity or safety, through the lens of how DigitalOcean’s Storage Platform, StorK8s, powers millions of volumes globally.
DigitalOcean has been running storage platform AKA StorK8s for the past 10+ years, and in this talk storage team senior engineer Nikhil and dev advocate Yash will share learnings with hands on practical patterns, deployment strategies, and tooling ideas on GitHub that attendees can apply to their own environments, helping push GitOps adoption forward across the open source and CNCF ecosystem.
Yash is Developer Advocate at Digital Ocean, international speaker and a core maintainer of Meshery, an open-source CNCF sandbox project. He is a mentor for the LFX 2024 projects and was an LFX mentee in the 2023 mentorship under Meshery. He hosts weekly Meshery Development calls and engage in CNCF communities
Senior Platform Engineer at DigitalOcean.