This year my life changed a lot: I quit the company I’d worked at for four years, moved to Japan – and started hunting for a new SRE/DevOps job. Reading through job descriptions, I kept seeing the same thing again and again: Argo CD popping up everywhere. This wasn’t a surprise to me — I’d already used Argo CD a lot in my previous company. We had ~10 product teams, even more Kubernetes clusters, and an SRE group that owned the platform. Argo CD was just there when I joined, and for years I never seriously questioned that choice. ...