ArgoWhat is Argo?
Argo is an open source container-native workflow engine for getting work done on Kubernetes. Argo is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition).
Argo is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
DAG or Steps based declaration of workflowsArtifact support (S3, Artifactory, HTTP, Git, raw)Step level input & outputs (artifacts/parameters)LoopsParameterizationConditionalsTimeouts (step & workflow level)Retry (step & workflow level)Resubmit (memoized)Suspend & ResumeCancellationK8s resource orchestrationExit Hooks (notifications, cleanup)Garbage collection of completed workflowScheduling (affinity/tolerations/node selectors)Volumes (ephemeral/existing)Parallelism limitsDaemoned stepsDinD (docker-in-docker)Script steps
Argo Pros & Cons
Pros of Argo
- ✓Open Source
- ✓Autosinchronize the changes to deploy
- ✓Online service, no need to install anything
Cons of Argo
No cons listed yet.
Argo Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Argo?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
