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What's New in Kargo v0.8.0
Kargo v0.8.0 is here! We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Kargo, the revolutionary GitOps promotion tool that eliminates the need for bespoke…
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Why Continuous Promotion is Essential
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) are fundamental to DevOps and platform engineering, enabling automated workflows from code commit to…
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Introducing Akuity Workspaces
We are excited to announce two significant additions to the Akuity Platform that will enhance how your organization manages access to resources: Workspaces and…
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What's New in Kargo v0.7.0
Kargo v0.7 is now available on GitHub ! The Kargo community has been hard at work driving Kargo closer and closer to a GA release. For users upgrading from v…
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Overcoming Edge Kubernetes Challenges with the Akuity Platform
Edge computing involves placing your workload as close to the user as necessary but no closer. It used to mean keeping computing close to the source of…
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Security-Hardened Image for Argo CD
Argo CD, widely adopted by tens of thousands of developers for managing production workloads on Kubernetes, inherently requires access to highly sensitive…
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Akuity Platform Crossplane Extension
Crossplane is a CNCF-incubating open-source project that provides a way to manage cloud resources in a Kubernetes-native manner. Being a Kubernetes-native…
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Akuity May 2024 Update
The Akuity Platform continues to evolve with the latest enhancements. Check out this summary of what new features and improvements were recently added to the…
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What's New in Kargo v0.6.0
It’s time for another Kargo release! As we move closer and closer to a GA release; the features and improvements keep coming. Not only are we diligently working…
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What's New in Kargo v0.5.0
We're back from Kubecon EU '24 in Paris, and there was a lot of buzz around Kargo! We had many conversations with folks talking about their struggles with how…
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Argo CD CDK8S Config Management Plugin
If you haven't stored raw kubernetes YAML files in your GitOps repository, you most probably used some sort of tooling that generates YAML files, for example…
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Application Dependencies with Argo CD
With Argo CD and GitOps gaining wide adoption, many organizations are starting to deploy more and more applications using Argo CD and GitOps in their workflows…
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Akuity Platform for Multi-Cloud and On-Premise Hybrid Environments
So, you want to run Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and possibly even on-premise to create a hybrid environment that…
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What's New in Kargo v0.4.0
Kargo has been gaining some steam after we’ve announced it back in September of 2023. Since then we’ve had a few releases that introduced many features, bug…
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Argo CD for Flux Users
At Akuity, we are at the forefront of GitOps. We help many of our customers across all industries with their GitOps implementation. As we anticipated, our…
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How many do you need? Argo CD Architectures Explained - 2024 Update
Using Argo CD to implement GitOps for Kubernetes appears simple. However, like any system, the ability to scale GitOps practices is highly dependent on the…
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Argo CD vs. Flux - a Detailed Comparison
GitOps has undoubtedly been a hot topic for quite some time now. Ever since the emergence of the popularity of Kubernetes, many organizations that have been…
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How Argo CD Empowers Developers at QA Wolf
We’ve teamed up with our colleagues (and customers) at QA Wolf to give you a glimpse into how indispensable Argo CD is in an everyday workflow of companies…
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What is Argo CD - Features and Business Benefits
In an era where cloud-native technology has become the norm, managing Kubernetes deployments efficiently is a necessity for businesses. This is where Argo CD…
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Akuity December 2023 Update
It's been a while since we shared any Akuity Platform updates, so here's a fresh blog post about the platform's new functionalities and improvements added…
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Why We Created the Argo Project
Seeing the Argo Project reach graduation status in Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2022 and now reaching incredible velocity of an Open Source project…
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GitOps Best Practices Whitepaper
GitOps is rapidly becoming the standard for managing cloud-native ecosystems with Kubernetes. Traditional IaC tools fell short with the rise of Kubernetes…
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Purpose, Not Location - Why Kargo Uses the Term 'Stage'
Kargo is a next-generation continuous delivery and application lifecycle orchestration platform for Kubernetes. It builds upon GitOps principles and integrates…
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The Rendered Manifests Pattern
GitOps principles exist to address the genuine problems of visibility and collaboration when working with a complex system like Kubernetes. They stress the…
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Introducing Kargo
We are thrilled to announce Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator for continuously delivering and promoting changes through environments…
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Unlocking Ultimate Argo CD Security
The Akuity Platform offers cloud-hosted Argo CD that allows managing hundreds of Kubernetes clusters with no hassle of maintaining and scaling the control plane…
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Reducing Argo CD Operational Burden
As an Argo CD administrator, you probably care a lot about security, robustness, and best practices in implementing every aspect of GitOps with Argo CD. As your…
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Ultimate Flexibility for Argo CD Architecture
Argo CD is a flexible GitOps controller that solves various use cases. It might be used as a platform operator tool that performs cluster bootstrapping, as well…
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Unlocking Ultimate Argo CD Scalability
Argo CD is a deployment tool for Kubernetes that follows GitOps methodology. Besides being the best implementation of a GitOps controller, Argo CD also stands…
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Argo CD Architecture Redesigned
One of the common questions we are asked regarding Akuity’s managed Argo CD offering is, what makes it different from open source? On the surface, everything…
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Config Management Plugins with Argo CD
Argo CD has the ability to work with Config Management tools like Helm and Kustomize natively. However there are other configuration management tools out there…
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Supplying Custom Values Files to Helm Charts in Argo CD
In this blog post, we will dive into a common challenge developers face when using Argo CD — an innovative Kubernetes application deployment and management tool…
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Akuity July 2023 Update
We're thrilled to announce the latest updates to the Akuity Platform, packed with exciting new features, like an AI assistant, and enhancements, like the…
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Introducing the AI Assistant for Argo CD on Akuity Platform
We are thrilled to announce that the AI Assistant for Argo CD is now available inside the Akuity Platform . It integrates cutting-edge AI functionality into…
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Akuity May 2023 Update
May welcomes a lot of new and exciting features inside the Akuity Platform. We're introducing Sync History reports both in Akuity and Argo and much more. Find…
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GRPC Gateway Client Generator
gRPC is a very popular alternative to REST for two reasons: high performance and code generation. High performance is achieved by using HTTP/2, which is a…
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Using Akuity Platform with Terraform
Once you created a GKE, EKS, AKS or any other type of Kubernetes cluster you probably want to manage it with your Argo CD instance. But how to put it there…
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Akuity February 2023 Update
March is almost here, so it's time to dive into what's new inside the Akuity Platform in February. This month we've introduced a lot of new features as well as…
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Enforcing Kubernetes Best Practices with Kyverno and Argo CD
If you've landed on this blog post, I assume you're already familiar with Kubernetes and know it's a container orchestration platform. As new application…
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Announcing SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance
From day one we set out to become the go-to vendor for enterprise-grade Argo CD as a managed service. As a part of this effort we want to make sure our current…
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Akuity January 2023 Update
January brings a collection of updates to the Akuity Platform. The platform officially supports the Argo CD Image Updater, Git operations can now be delegated…
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Sustainable GitOps with Argo CD and kube-green
Let's talk about sustainable cloud compuzting! 2022 was the year of increased awareness around the amount of CO2 that global cloud infrastructure releases into…
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Self-hosted Akuity is Here!
We launched the Akuity Platform in September 2022. The platform is constantly growing as a product, adding more and more innovation on top of Argo CD. To make…
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Argo CD Build Environment Examples
In many cases, the location or name of an application's deployment will influence its configuration. Consider that an app will deploy to multiple environments…
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Akuity December 2022 Update
December brings another batch of improvements to the Akuity Platform. We've focused on making custom UI styles accessible to anyone, simplifying SSO…
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Argo Graduation Day!
Good news, everyone! The Argo Project has reached the “Graduated” status with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This is a significant event and an…
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How to Create Argo CD Theme with Minimal CSS
When using Argo CD UI, you might want to match its design with your company's branding or wish to differentiate between the instances by giving different color…
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KubeCon Detroit 2022 - Akuity Team Recap
This year North America's "motor city", Detroit, hosted KubeCon. It wasn’t our first KubeCon as individuals, but it was our first KubeCon as a team. Our First…
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Akuity November 2022 Update
We're happy to announce that the Akuity Platform has received several advancements. With this release, it has never been easier to get up and running with Argo…
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Announcing the Akuity Platform
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Akuity Platform, offering fully-managed Argo CD as a hosted service. With the Akuity Platform, it’s…
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