Argo Workflows in Action: Rabobank's Journey to Cloud Native Banking

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Rabobank migrates nightly mortgage-status jobs from Chronos on Mesos to Argo Workflows on Azure Kubernetes, runs them in production for two years, and resolves early/late/missed triggers by adding RBAC roles, enforcing deployments via Kustomize (with customized config to patch Argo CRs), and splitting logic into reusable workflow templates. A reporting workflow calls the Argo API each morning to generate Teams reports, while a global exit handler injected via the workflow-controller ConfigMap sends PagerDuty alerts on failures. Stability and observability improve measurably.

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1. 0:00Rabobank’s Argo journey
2. 3:51Infrastructure overview
3. 5:19Workflow management challenges
4. 6:02Role-based access control
5. 8:12Customizing Argo with Kustomize
6. 11:07Reusable workflow templates
7. 12:54Automated workflow reporting
8. 15:22Global exit handlers for alerts
9. 17:34Q&A

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