Hitting the Runway with ArgoCD at American Airlines
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American Airlines builds an internal developer platform called Runway inside Backstage that uses Argo CD to convert templates into GitOps deployments, cutting new-app launch time from months to under 20 minutes. Architecture uses one Argo instance per cluster and Argo for cluster bootstrapping with app-of-apps, GitHub PR preview environments, and prepulling images before CI finishes. Deployment UX hides Kubernetes behind a simple custom resource (webapp.yaml), secrets come from HashiCorp Vault, and created Argo apps are backed up but not yet committed back to Git.
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