Head of Engineering at Akuity · Building the GitOps platform for Kubernetes on Argo CD and Kargo
- 🛠️ I like simplifying complex things and automating tedious work
- 🐳 Founding engineer at Docker, where I built Docker Hub
- 🎁 Founding team at CashStar, the first e-gift card platform
- 🏢 Led large engineering organizations at WEX
- 🎤 Speaker at PyCon, DjangoCon, and DockerCon
Most teams can deploy to Kubernetes. Far fewer can answer: what version is in staging, how did it get there, and is it safe for production?
Kargo in Action is about closing that promotion gap. I wrote it with Jesse Suen and Kent Rancourt, the creators of Kargo. It follows one company as it grows from a single-service pipeline into a platform for dozens of teams and services. You'll learn how to:
- 🚀 Run Kargo alongside Argo CD and do your first end-to-end promotion
- 🗺️ Design promotion pipelines across environments, release candidates, and hotfix paths
- 🤖 Automate low-risk promotions and gate production behind approvals and verification
- ↩️ Roll back cleanly when a release goes sideways
- 📋 Produce the audit trail your compliance reviewers actually want
It's available now through the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Read chapters as they're written, and get the final book when it ships.
- Docker Cookbook, 2nd Edition (Packt)
Ship it, promote it, sleep at night. 🌙