The Crossplane Object that synced green and changed nothing
Everything’s green — Argo CD Synced, Crossplane Ready — but the change never took effect. The trap where Crossplane management policies without Update meet Kubernetes immutability.
GitOps
Why deleting an env var from your GitOps values doesn't remove it from the pod
You delete an env var from your Helm values, Argo CD reports Synced — and it’s still on the pod. Why strategic-merge-patch can’t remove list items, and the Server-Side Apply fix.
One GitHub App, two auth models: repo credentials, webhooks, and SSO for Argo CD
Argo CD needs three different things from GitHub — repo reads, webhook delivery, and human SSO. How a single GitHub App covers all three with short-lived installation tokens instead of a leak-prone PAT.