A few weeks ago I posted about my team’s work toward moving our application teams to using Argo CD for Kubernetes deployments. The work entailed a months-long set of changes to our deployment tool to gradually push users from the old way to the new way. At the time of that post, before our final(-ish) transition to requiring Argo CD usage, I’d just sent out a message designed to sound a little scary for those who hadn’t been paying attention, to get them moving. Despite a little bit of negative reception, I was hopeful that the transition would nevertheless go smoothly.

It went smoothly.

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