In modern DevOps, zero downtime isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. This session walks through how Argo CD and Argo Rollouts enable seamless, production-grade blue-green and canary deployments on Amazon EKS. Drawing from real-world experience leading the Zero Downtime Deployment on EKS project, I’ll share how GitOps principles, observability tooling, and Kubernetes-native automation come together to ensure reliability at scale.

We’ll break down practical workflows for integrating Argo into CI/CD pipelines, achieving automated rollbacks, and validating progressive delivery strategies—without vendor lock-in. Whether you’re a DevOps engineer, SRE, or platform builder, you’ll leave with actionable templates, mental models, and a repeatable playbook for safe, continuous delivery in cloud-native environments.

This session is based on the Zero Downtime Deployment on EKS project (https://github.com/FreemanBoss/zero-downtime-deployment-eks
) and accompanying technical article (https://medium.com/@chisomjude0205/zero-downtime-deployments-on-eks-blue-green-and-canary-strategies-c30bd49f2316
).
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It demonstrates hands-on implementation of Argo CD and Argo Rollouts for progressive delivery and rollback automation on Amazon EKS clusters using GitOps best practices.

Target Audience: DevOps engineers, cloud-native developers, SREs, and platform teams seeking reliable CI/CD deployment strategies.
Technical Requirements: Live demo access (optional) or slides with YAML configurations and ArgoCD rollout visuals.

Previous Speaking Sessions:

AWS Community Day West Africa 2025 (https://www.youtube.com/live/2k2kd0njoTY?si=yXXAaMiQHj-EPEqf)

She Code Africa Lagos – DevOps Deep Dive (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sca-lagos_scalagos-devops-technicaldeepdive-activity-7342914010343792640-Gr2y
)

Hacktoberfest Open Source 101 (https://bit.ly/alx9ja-se-hub-Open-Source-101-HacktoberFest-2025
)

Community & Open Source Involvement:
Active contributor to CNCF and Linux Foundation projects such as OpenStack Bifrost (bossfreeman9@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://review.opendev.org/q/owner:bossfreeman9@gmail.com
), Layer5 Meshery, NFTOPIA (https://github.com/NFTopia-Foundation/nftopia
), and Veritix (https://github.com/Lead-Studios/veritix-python
).
Mentor at She Code Africa Lagos and maintainer of AWS Cloud Club UNILORIN (https://github.com/AWSCC-Unilorin/Official_website
).
Also served as MIT AI Ambassador (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/habeeb-babasulaiman_mit-hacknation-ai-activity-7382700188538146816-8OAR
).

Presentation Format: Technical deep dive with visual workflows, YAML samples, and real-world CI/CD architecture diagrams.