Argo - The Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

What is Argo?

Argo is an open source container-native workflow engine for developing and running applications on Kubernetes.

• Define workflows where each step in the workflow is a container.
• Run rich CI/CD workflows using Docker-in-Docker, complex testing with built in artifact management, secret management and lifecycle management of dev/test resources.
• Build, test and deploy scalable stateful and stateless cloud-native apps and microservices.

Why Argo?

• Argo is designed from the ground up for containers without the baggage and limitations of legacy VM and server-based environments.
• Argo is cloud agnostic. Today we support AWS and GKE (alpha) with additional platforms coming soon.
• With Argo, you don’t need to install or learn other tools such as Jenkins, Chef, Cloud Formation... 

Getting started

Step 1: Download the argo binary

Mac: curl -sSL -O https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ax-public/argocli/latest/darwin_amd64/argo

Linux: curl -sSL -O https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ax-public/argocli/latest/linux_amd64/argo

chmod a+x ./argo
cp ./argo /usr/local/bin

Step 2: Install argo

argo cluster

Main Features

• Container-native workflows for Kubernetes.
  • Each step in the workflow is a container
  • Arbitrarily compose sub-workflows to create larger workflows
  • No need to install or learn other tools such as Jenkins, Chef, Cloud Formation
• Configuration as code (YAML for everything)
• Built-in support for artifacts, persistent volumes, and DNS/load-balancers/firewalls.
• DinD (Docker-in-Docker) out of the box. Run docker builds and other containers from within containerized workflows.
• "Cashboard" shows cost of running a workflow. Also, spending per user and application.
• Managed fixtures.

Resources

• Argo website: https://argoproj.github.io/argo-site
• Argo GitHub: https://github.com/argoproj
• Argo forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/argoproj