Armory Continuous Deployment

Guides and release notes for Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted and the Armory Operators.

What is Armory Continuous Deployment?

Armory Continuous Deployment (Armory CD) requires a license. For more information, contact Armory.

Armory helps software teams ship better software, faster. Armory Continuous Deployment (Armory CD) is an enterprise-grade distribution of Spinnaker™ that runs in your Kubernetes cluster. Armory CD extends Spinnaker with both essential and optional premium plugins. See the Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted product page for complete list of featues and pricing.

What is Spinnaker?

Spinnaker™ is an open source, multi-cloud Continuous Delivery and Deployment platform that provides a single pane of glass with visibility across your deployment for deployment status, infrastructure, security and compliance, and metrics. By using pipelines, flexible and customizable series of deployment stages, Spinnaker can fit a variety of deployment needs. Spinnaker can deploy to and manage clusters across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Spinnaker not only enables businesses to move to the cloud but makes it easier for them to adopt the cloud’s advantages.

Additional Armory products

Kubernetes Operators for installation

The Armory Operator is a Kubernetes Operator that helps you configure, deploy, and update Armory Continuous Deployment on Kubernetes clusters.

The open source Spinnaker Operator provides features to deploy and manage open source Spinnaker.

Plugins for Spinnaker and Armory CD

PluginSpinnakerArmory CD
Armory CD-as-a-Service Plugin
The Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service plugin enables performing canary and blue/green deployments in a single stage from Spinnaker to your Kubernetes deployment target using CD-as-a-Service.
1.24+2.24+
(included with Armory CD)
AWS CloudWatch Integration
The AWS CloudWatch Integration Plugin for Spinnaker enables using AWS CloudWatch as a metrics provider for your canary deployments in Spinnaker and Armory Continuous Deployment.
1.33+-
AWS Event Cache
The AWS Event Cache Plugin enhances Spinnaker’s functionality by addressing rate limit issues commonly encountered when using AWS providers, particularly in scenarios involving EC2 and ECS. The plugin leverages AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) to receive events and employs a notification handling service to manage data and gate services effectively.
1.28+2.28+
Event Filter
The Event Filter Plugin for Spinnaker filters or trims events sent to external log aggregators by Echo.
1.29+2.30+
GitHub Integration
Armory’s GitHub Integration plugin for Spinnaker streamlines integration with GitHub Actions, filling the native support gap. The plugin enables easy triggering of GitHub Actions workflows, dynamic control of Spinnaker pipelines based on workflow outcomes, and seamless synchronization of GitHub Deployment statuses with Spinnaker pipeline conclusions.
1.30+2.30+
Kubernetes Custom Resource Status
The Kubernetes Custom Resource Status Check Plugin for Armory CD and Spinnaker checks the status of your Custom Resource deployment on Kubernetes.
1.27+2.27+
Pipelines-as-Code
Armory Pipelines-as-Code enables pipeline definitions to be managed as code in GitHub, BitBucket, or GitLab. It operates as a service/plugin for open source Spinnaker and as feature in Armory Continuous Deployment.
1.26+2.21+
Policy Engine
Empower DevOps efforts and ensure compliance with Armory Policy Engine. You can enforce save time, runtime, and user interaction policies for Spinnaker or Armory Continuous Deployment. Ensure verification at runtime and throughout your lifecycle. Enforce trusted standards to reduce risk and scale DevOps efforts. Support workflow and collaborate without causing breaking changes.
1.26+2.26+
Scale Agent
The Armory Scale Agent for Spinnaker and Kubernetes is a lightweight, real-time agent that enables you to scale Kubernetes deployments to limitless clusters and namespaces with minimal latency and minimal load on your clusters. Secure, simplify, and scale your Kubernetes deployments with any Spinnaker or Armory Continuous Deployment instance.
1.26+2.26+
Self-Serve Error Management
The Self-Serve Error Management Plugin for Spinnaker enables overriding and customizing error messages from Clouddriver or the Scale Agent.
1.29+2.30+
Terraform Integration
The Terraform Integration plugin enables provisioning infrastructure using Terraform as part of your Spinnaker and Armory Continuous Deployment pipelines.
1.26+2.26+

Last modified March 3, 2023: (2d069084)