Understanding ArgoCD Reconciliation: How It Works, Why It Matters, and Best Practices
ArgoCD is a powerful GitOps controller for Kubernetes, enabling declarative configuration and automated synchronization of workloads. One of its core functions is reconciliation, a continuous process by which ArgoCD ensures that the live state of a Kubernetes cluster matches the desired state defined in a Git repository.
While this might sound straightforward, reconciliation plays a critical role in the GitOps lifecycle, and its default behavior can be surprisingly aggressive. In this blog post, we’ll explore:
- What reconciliation in ArgoCD actually does
- Why it exists and how it ensures cluster integrity
- The pitfalls of the default timer
- Best practices for tuning reconciliation to balance responsiveness and resource efficiency
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In a related blog, we describe how customers using Rafay are able to Block Drift in the first place.
