Argo Intermediate Training
Add canary and blue-green releases, event-driven pipelines, ApplicationSets, SSO and secret management to Argo setups. Learn Argo through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Argo levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Argo Intermediate Training.
Understand where Argo fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Argo is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Argo program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Intermediate.
Private Argo training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Argo training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Argo usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Intermediate | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Intermediate | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 3 Days | Corporate | Argo Intermediate Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Argo training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Deliver with GitOps
Deploy and reconcile Kubernetes applications from Git with Argo CD.
Automate pipelines and releases
Build event-driven workflows and progressive canary and blue-green releases with Argo Workflows, Events and Rollouts.
Operate Argo at scale
Run secure, highly available, multi-cluster Argo platforms with governance and observability.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Argo responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Argo matters
- Argo helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Argo becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Argo effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Argo concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Argo in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Argo for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Argo usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Argo.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Intermediate. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: GitOps concepts, Argo projects and installationDay 1
- Argo project overview: Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events as a graduated CNCF project
- GitOps principles: declarative, versioned, pulled automatically and continuously reconciled
- Kubernetes prerequisites: kubectl, namespaces, Deployments, Services and custom resource definitions
- Lab setup: a local kind or minikube cluster and a Git repository for manifests
- Argo CD architecture: API server, repository server, application controller, Redis and ApplicationSet controller
- Installing Argo CD: install manifests, initial admin password, argocd CLI login and UI access
- First Argo CD Application: deploying the guestbook app from Git and reading sync and health status
- Argo Workflows architecture: workflow controller, Argo Server, executor and workflow CRDs
- Installing Argo Workflows: quick-start install, argo CLI and the web UI
- First workflow: a hello-world container step submitted with argo submit and watched in the UI
Essential Level = Foundation + Argo CD applications and Argo Workflows everyday useDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Application spec: source repository, path, target revision, destination cluster and namespace
- Manifest sources: plain YAML, Helm charts with values and Kustomize overlays
- Sync policies: manual versus automated sync, prune, self-heal and sync options
- Sync waves and hooks: PreSync, Sync and PostSync hooks and ordering resources
- AppProjects: source and destination restrictions and basic project roles
- Repositories and clusters: HTTPS and SSH credentials and registering additional clusters
- Diffing: ignoreDifferences, managed fields and drift detection
- Workflow steps and DAGs: sequential steps, parallel steps and DAG dependencies
- Parameters and outputs: input parameters, output parameters and passing data between steps
- Artifacts: artifact repositories with S3 or MinIO and passing files between steps
- Reusable workflows and schedules: cluster-wide reusable workflow definitions and CronWorkflows
- Workflow operations: retries, timeouts, exit handlers and resubmitting failed workflows
Intermediate Level = Essential + progressive delivery, events, ApplicationSets and secretsDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Argo Rollouts: Rollout resources, canary steps, blue-green previews and promotion
- Automated analysis: AnalysisRuns with Prometheus metrics, success conditions and automatic rollback
- Traffic management: NGINX Ingress, Istio and Gateway API traffic splitting for Rollouts
- Argo Events: EventSources, Sensors, the EventBus and triggers for GitHub webhooks, Kafka and S3
- CI/CD pipeline: Argo Events triggering Workflows that build images and update Git for Argo CD
- ApplicationSets: list, Git, cluster and matrix generators for many apps and clusters
- App of Apps pattern: bootstrapping a cluster from a single root application
- Secrets in GitOps: Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator and argocd-vault-plugin
- SSO and RBAC: Dex or OIDC login, RBAC policy.csv and project-scoped roles
- Notifications and image updates: Argo CD Notifications and Argo CD Image Updater
- Troubleshooting: sync failures, degraded health, OutOfSync loops and controller logs
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Argo levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
First GitOps deployment
Install Argo CD and Argo Workflows on kind, deploy an app from Git and run a hello-world workflow.
Helm app with automated sync and pipeline
Deploy a Helm-based app with automated sync and self-heal, and build a DAG workflow that tests and packages code with artifacts.
Canary release pipeline
Wire a GitHub webhook through Argo Events to a build workflow, then release the new image as a canary with Prometheus analysis.
Argo is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Argo with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Argo certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Argo level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Argo Intermediate Training
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Argo path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Argo Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Argo level fits your team.
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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