Argo CD and Flux achieving CNCF graduation status definitely represents a solid nod to GitOps’ viability in the community. But will this change the course of https://thenewstack.io/what-is-gitops-and-why-it-might-be-the-next-big-thing-for-devops/ in substantive ways as the projects join the ranks of 19 other projects, including https://thenewstack.io/envoy-gateway-offers-to-standardize-kubernetes-ingress/ and, of course, https://thenewstack.io/primer-how-kubernetes-came-to-be-what-it-is-and-why-you-should-care/?
— Weaveworks (@weaveworks) https://twitter.com/weaveworks/status/1599826987543142400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://argoproj.github.io/cd/ and https://github.com/fluxcd proponents, main contributors and maintainers and other proponents say the graduation represents a major milestone.
Indeed, the graduation status should help to continue the momentum of the adoption of the projects, while leading to improvements to security and governance for Argo CD, Flux and GitOps in general (more about this below).
Both Argo CD and Flux have their uses and variances, which have been previously covered.