Kargo in Action
Manning Early Access Program

While many teams can deploy software, few have full visibility into the exact build running in production, who authorized its release, or the guardrails preventing it from bypassing staging. Standard CI systems construct artifacts, and CD platforms like Argo CD reconcile cluster states, yet neither governs the critical interim phase—the policy-driven advancement of builds across environments. This gap is precisely where audit issues and release risks arise.

Built to bridge this gap, Kargo serves as a Kubernetes-native promotion control plane. Operating between CI pipelines and Argo CD, it automatically discovers new artifacts, maintains eligibility for environment transitions, and logs every promotion as a persistent, auditable event. Authored by the Akuity engineering team behind the Kargo project, Kargo in Action guides you from initial end-to-end promotion setup to managing continuous promotion at enterprise scale.