KEP-555 Reading Notes: The Design Principles and Context of Server Side Apply
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Server Side Apply (SSA) has been GA since Kubernetes v1.22 (August 2021), and the Kubernetes blog even published a post encouraging everyone to adopt it.
In October 2022, Argo CD v2.5.0 announced SSA support. In November 2025, Helm 4.0.0 was released with SSA enabled by default for new releases. So what exactly is “SSA”?