How Okta Scaled From 12 to 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters With Argo CD

ATLANTA — Let’s just say that Okta’s Auth0 platform customers for private cloud weren’t getting what they likely wanted. Okta’s support was problematic at best, especially for those customers at scale.

This led to a decision to take a huge bet on open source for GitOps, specifically the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD (previously called Argo Workflows). It wasn’t just a simple lift and shift; instituting it across such a wide scale of operations required over five years. During KubeCon + CloudNativeCon here, Okta engineers Jérémy…