Open source at Intuit: celebrating the Argo Project’s CNCF graduation to mainstream adoption

There was big news today in the open source world. I’m honored to announce that the Argo Project, one of the fastest-growing Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, received graduation status from the CNCF.

Open source adoption and contribution are core pillars of Intuit’s platform architecture strategy. Argo becoming a graduated project is a massive win for the industry, especially as cloud native technologies become the mainstream. As the founders and largest maintainers of the Argo project, we are proud and honored by this huge milestone.

As DevOps automation and platform engineering become table stakes and cloud-native fuels development velocity, Argo’s adoption continues to soar. As a result, it is actively used in production by over 350 organizations – a 140% increase since joining the CNCF Incubator – including industry leaders.

Community-driven innovation

Argo was born to enable scale with developing and running applications in the public cloud. We started with a specific focus on creating a GitOps-driven Kubernetes-native workflow engine to run complex workflows for CI/CD and machine learning workflows. The project quickly grew as Intuit built Argo CD and Rollouts in the open source to provide GitOps-driven deployments on Kubernetes. Soon after, our friends at BlackRock contributed Argo Events to provide declarative management of event-based dependencies. 

In 2020, Argo joined the CNCF as an incubating project to continue its growth, given the CNCF’s mission to make cloud native technologies universal and sustainable. Today the 8,000+ contributors and 190k+ contributions are a massive testament to community-driven innovation in the Argo project! It is exciting to see  Argo’s graduation to join other such projects that have reached the highest level of maturity in the CNCF, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy.

An active CNCF member since early 2018, Intuit is recognized as an early adopter and driver of cloud-native infrastructure tool innovation. As we operationalize and solve challenges in the modern development platform experience, our team’s contributions and maintenance of CNCF projects and the end-user community are critical for our innovation. 

Intuit in open source and open collaboration

Over the past two years, Intuit’s investment in cloud native technologies to provide modern platforming company-wide has driven a 6x increase in development velocity. This platform architecture enables Intuit to fuel product innovation at speed and scale for 100+ million consumer and small business customers worldwide. At the foundation of Intuit’s platform architecture is a modern SaaS development environment that enables developers to deliver code fast, with built-in quality, security, and compliance. 

Recently, Intuit was recognized for driving and scaling technology innovation with the cloud-native community with the CNCF’s peer-driven “Top End User” award, voted on by 172 organizations in the CNCF End User Community.

Open source is integral to Intuit and who we are as an AI-driven expert platform company. We are committed to this ecosystem – from releasing new open source tools to enable AIOps, to leveraging, and contributing to other rising projects.

Visit https://argoproj.github.io/ to learn more about Argo.