Argo Projects?

The Argo Project is a set of Kubernetes tools that run applications and jobs or help with deployments in a Kubernetes environment. Every Argo program is implemented with CRD (Custom Resource Definition) and the user's Kubernetes cluster. There are currently four major sub-projects, and while each program can be used independently, they become even more powerful tools when used together.

What?

• Argo Workflows

  • A container-based workflow engine

    • Jobs are executed at the container level rather than as processes

    • Supports various execution methods

      • ex. sequence, parallel, with dependency w/ DAG, etc

• Argo Events

  • An event-driven workflow automation framework tool for Kubernetes

    • It provides various Events and Triggers like the ones below, and performs the role of triggering when an Event occurs

    • Events Source (20+):

      • Github, NATS, File, NATS, MQTT, Slack, Webhooks, HDFS, K8s Resources, Kafka, Redis, etc

    • Triggers (10+)

      • Argo Workflow, Argo Rollouts, k8s Object, AWS Lambda, AWS Lamda, NATS message, Kafka message, Log, Slack Notification, etc

• Argo CD

  • A declarative GitOps-based CD (Continuous Deployment) tool

• Argo Rollouts

  • A tool that supports Progressive Delivery

  • Supports several deployment methods

  • ex. canary, blue/green, rolling updates, etc

References

• https://github.com/terrytangyuan/awesome-argo

Who?

• The company Applatix created Argo and provided it as open source to the cloud-native developer community
• In 2018, a company called Intuit acquired Applatix
• In 2020, the Argo project was approved as a CNCF Incubator project
• It is currently maintained by several companies

References

• https://argoproj.github.io/
• https://www.intuit.com/blog/innovation/cloud-native-computing-foundation-accepts-argo-as-an-incubator-project/
• https://www.intuit.com/blog/innovation/welcome-applatix-to-the-intuit-team/
• https://blog.argoproj.io/argo-goes-to-cncf-incubator-f0e9dfb40597

Where?

• More than 180 companies are actively using it in production

• ex. Adobe, Alibaba Cloud, Data Dog, Datastax, Google, GitHub, IBM, MLB, NVIDIA, Red Hat, SAP, Tesla, Ticketmaster, Daangn Market, LINE

Reference

• https://argoproj.github.io/

Note

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