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Welcome to our quick start guide, designed to help you get the most from Codefresh. Whether you want to use the CI portion to build and test your applications or explore the GitOps feature powered by Argo CD, this is the place to start. We’ll walk you through setting up runtimes for non-production and testing purposes and provide sample code to ensure you have everything you need to get started. You can use the code provided as a model if you need to deploy in a production manner.

Argo CD is the most popular GitOps tool for deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters. Many teams that move their applications to Kubernetes choose Argo CD for its powerful sync engine and intuitive dashboard. Argo CD is also fully open source, which means teams can freely install it on their private clouds, behind-the-firewall data centers, or even in air-gapped environments without any licensing restrictions.

Accidentally deleting an application is bad, but accidentally deleting all of them is a lot worse. In this post, I show you how to avoid issues like the following: Argo CD finalizers is a built-in Argo CD feature that confuses many new users and can even result in accidental deletion if you’re not careful. If you see a resource managed by Argo CD that was supposed to be deleted but isn’t, then you can almost certainly blame a finalizer.