Since 2021, HashiCorp has limited free tiers, swapped licenses, rebranded the platform and as of March 2026, axed the free tier entirely. Each move made business sense. Each one left teams who built their workflows on TFE with the same uncomfortable choice: pay up or rebuild 😅.

Argo CD reconciles desired state from Git. But how does that state actually move from dev to prod?

Teams historically answered this with CI scripts, Argo Workflows DAGs or Argo CD Image Updater. Each works, but none were built for the job.