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Kostis Kapelonis is a Principal Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy. He lives and breathes automation, good testing practices and stress-free deployments with GitOps. He is also a member of the Argo team focusing mainly on Argo Rollouts and Argo CD.

Securing your GitOps secrets with the Secret Store CSI driver

Kostis KapelonisJune 18, 2026 • 9 min read
GitOps with Octopus and Argo CD

Kostis KapelonisMay 14, 2026 • 11 min read
4 ways to use Argo CD and Terraform together

Kostis KapelonisFebruary 20, 2026 • 16 min read
Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops

Kostis KapelonisAugust 19, 2025 • 46 min read
Abusing the Target Revision field for Argo CD promotions

Kostis KapelonisAugust 11, 2025 • 15 min read
Laser-focused Kubernetes deployments using Argo Rollouts and header-based routing

Kostis KapelonisJune 23, 2025 • 11 min read
Distribute your Argo CD applications to different Kubernetes clusters using application sets

Kostis KapelonisJune 17, 2025 • 27 min read
Kubernetes deployment anti-patterns - part 3

Kostis KapelonisMarch 17, 2025 • 11 min read
Kubernetes deployment anti-patterns - part 1

Kostis KapelonisMarch 13, 2025 • 13 min read
Kubernetes deployment anti-patterns - part 2

Kostis KapelonisMarch 13, 2025 • 11 min read
Structuring Argo CD repositories

Kostis KapelonisDecember 16, 2024 • 25 min read
Using Helm hierarchies in multi-source Argo CD applications for promoting to different GitOps environments

Kostis KapelonisOctober 30, 2024 • 16 min read

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Optional ephemeral environments using GitHub PR labels

Ephemeral environments are great for PR reviews, but they're not always needed. In this post, I walk through how I used a simple GitHub PR label to make ephemeral environment deployments optional without breaking branch protection rules.

Matthew AllfordJune 23, 2026 • 7 min read

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GitHub Connections now available for self-hosted Octopus Server customers

GitHub Connections, via the Octopus Deploy App for GitHub, are now available for self-hosted Octopus Server customers

Michael RichardsonJune 18, 2026 • 3 min read

GitOps secrets with the CSI Secret Store driver

Securing your GitOps secrets with the Secret Store CSI driver

Learn how to use the Kubernetes secret store csi driver for your Argo CD secrets

Kostis KapelonisJune 18, 2026 • 9 min read

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