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Argo CD & GitOps consulting for startups
We implement GitOps with Argo CD: git as the single source of truth for what runs in your cluster, automatic drift correction, and rollbacks that are just a revert. For a small team, GitOps removes the scariest question in operations — 'what's actually deployed right now?' — because the answer is always: whatever is in git.
Reference architecture
How we build with Argo CD
Source
CI
CD
Cluster
Scope
What our Argo CD consulting covers
- Argo CD installation and app-of-apps architecture across environments
- Migration from kubectl-apply and CI-push deploys to pull-based GitOps
- Sync policies, health checks, and automated rollback on failed deploys
- Per-PR preview environments with ApplicationSets
- Secrets done right alongside GitOps: External Secrets or Sealed Secrets
System design
How GitOps scales your delivery
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Deploys scale past the platform team: developers merge to deploy — no cluster credentials, no tribal kubectl knowledge, no bottleneck human
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Drift self-heals: Argo reverts manual cluster edits automatically, so configuration can't rot between audits
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Environments are branches of truth: staging-to-prod promotion is a PR diff you can read, not a re-run you hope matches
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Rollback is a revert: mean-time-to-recovery drops to minutes because undoing a bad deploy is the same muscle as any git operation
In practice
What a typical engagement looks like
A team deploying via CI-driven kubectl with cluster-admin credentials in CI secrets moves to Argo CD: app-of-apps per environment, image bumps as PRs, preview apps per pull request. Deploy access leaves CI entirely, a failed release becomes a one-click rollback, and 'works in staging, different in prod' disappears because the diff is visible.
Illustrative engagement — representative of typical work at typical scale, not a specific client. See a full sample audit deliverable here.
Argo CD work is covered by the Fractional DevOps retainer ($2,900/mo) and scoped fixed-price projects — start with the guaranteed $1,900 audit if you want findings before commitments.
Questions
Argo CD, straight answers
Argo CD or Flux?
Both are solid GitOps engines. We default to Argo CD for startups because its UI gives non-platform engineers visibility into deploy state — a real advantage when there's no dedicated ops team. Flux is excellent for pure-automation setups. If you already run one, we work with it rather than churn tools.
Can we adopt GitOps without Kubernetes?
The GitOps principle — declarative config in git, machines reconciling it — is exactly what Terraform-plan-on-PR gives you for cloud infrastructure. Argo CD specifically is Kubernetes-native, so for ECS or Cloud Run we implement the same discipline through the Terraform pipeline instead.
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