Summary of How Adobe Planned For Scale With Argo CD, Cluster API, And VCluster - Joseph Sandoval & Dan Garfield

00:00:00 - 00:35:00

In this video, Adobe discusses how they planned for scale with Argo CD, Cluster API, and VCluster. They explain how Argo CD reconciles resources, Argo Workflows allows for scripted events and deployments, and Argo City provides a platform for managing large clusters. They discuss how these tools can be used to support an operator's infrastructure and explain how the scale plan can be communicated to the team.

• 00:00:00 Adobe has been planning for scale with Argo CD, cluster API, and VCluster for years, and is currently scaling to over 230 clusters and 1.8 petabytes of memory. As the company grows, the challenges of maintaining a fleet of clusters and keeping them consistent becomes more difficult.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses Adobe's history and how its Repository Infrastructure has evolved over time. It then discusses how the team attempted to scale its messaging services by developing a workflow of workflows. However, maintaining the workflow and ensuring the quality of releases became increasingly difficult. The team then turned to Argo CD, an open source project developed by Adobe, to help it scale its messaging services.
• 00:10:00 In this video, Adobe discusses how they planned for scale with Argo CD, Cluster API, and VCluster. They discuss how Git Ops was created to help manage State and avoid drift. They also mention that V clusters can be created using Cluster API, which is useful for quickly testing operations.
• 00:15:00 In this talk, Joseph Sandoval and Dan Garfield discuss Adobe's plans for scale with Argo CD, Cluster API, and VCluster. They explain how Argo CD reconciles resources, Argo Workflows allows for scripted events and deployments, and Argo City provides a platform for managing large clusters. They discuss how these tools can be used to support an operator's infrastructure and explain how the scale plan can be communicated to the team.
• 00:20:00 Argo CD is a scalable platform for managing clusters of nodes, and Adobe uses it to scale its development process. Argo CD has Primitives for scale, but it will run into Performance challenges as it grows. Adobe has created a blog post detailing how to scale Argo CD securely in 2022.
• 00:25:00 The video discusses how Adobe planned for scale with Argo CD, Cluster API, and VCluster. Argo CD is a replication platform that supports multiple vpcs and Edge clusters. Argo CD also has a security feature that passes 100 on cncf metrics.
• 00:30:00 The video discusses how Adobe plans for scale with its Argo CD and VCluster systems. Arbitrary code on the company's servers can now be difficult to execute due to safeguards in place, such as guardrails around secrets and outputs. Code fresh offers a hosted Argo CD instance to every account, and code owners can set permissions for folders within a git repository to control who can deploy to which instances. Adobe recommends a two-repo model for applications and Get Ops certification to help manage dependencies and avoid conflicts. Splitting up applications into multiple components can also improve resiliency and security.
• 00:35:00 This YouTube video discusses Adobe's plans for scale with Argo CD, Cluster API, and VCluster. The cost efficiency and security considerations were emphasized.