# Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops

DevFeed: [Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/top-30-argo-cd-anti-patterns-to-avoid-when-adopting-gitops-17672.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://codefresh.io/blog/argo-cd-anti-patterns-for-gitops/>)

Author: Kostis Kapelonis

Published: 2025-08-19T16:36:21Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Codefresh](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codefresh.md>)

Topics: [argo-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/argo-cd.md>), [GitOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitops.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Helm charts](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/helm-charts.md>)

Tags: [argo-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/argo-cd.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [gitops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitops.md>), [helm-charts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/helm-charts.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains common anti-patterns teams encounter when adopting Argo CD and GitOps. It focuses on understanding Argo CD's declarative setup and storing applications and related Kubernetes resources in Git so deployments and configuration can be recreated reliably.

## Source excerpt

The time has finally come! After the massive success of our Docker and Kubernetes guides, we are now ready to see several anti-patterns for Argo CD. Anti-patterns are questionable practices that people adopt because they seem like a good idea at first glance, but in the long run, they make processes more complicated than necessary. [...] The post Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops appeared first on Codefresh.