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Argo CD v3.5.0 landed on August 4, 2026, bringing substantial changes that touch nearly every layer of the GitOps controller
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Every engineering team reaches the same breaking point: the deploy-to-release coupling. You want to ship code to production, but you
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Deploying new code to production without taking your service offline is table stakes for modern applications. Kubernetes gives you rolling
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