Explore close collaboration with Argo

[AloisReitbauer]

Collaborate closer with Argo

Keptn provides unique obervability and automation capabilities to GitOps environments:

• Provide tracing for GitOps deployments without touching any deployment
• Provide DORA metrics out of the box (including Grafana dashboards)
• Automatically validate SLIs/SLOs as part of deployments
• Add automation steps declaratively to pre- and post deployment steps for individual services and entire applications.
• Support multi-stage deployments.

This is functionality which is currently not available at this level in Argo. However, these capabilities are key for enterprise-level production usage. The Keptn project has been heavily focussed on supporting GitOps deployments with Argo (while Keptn also works for plain kubectl-type deployments)

The project team wants to explore closer collaboration with Argo - either by joint innovation or potentially making Keptn a dedicated "observability" subproject of Argo.

Sponsors

• Alois Reitbauer (Dynatrace)
• Thomas Schuetz
• Ana Medina

Checklist

• [x] The idea is brought up for a discussion with the Governance board
• [x] Each sponsor should reply to this issue with the comment "I support".

[thschue]

I support!

[AnaMMedina21]

Excited to see this collaboration. Supporting this!

[grabnerandi]

Another use case that Keptn would solve is providing observability and traceability into Argo Workflows. Troubleshooting workflows has been a hot topic this morning at ArgoCon 2024 Europe. As Workflows basically deploy Pods it would be a logical step to extend Keptn to trace those workflow tasks and connect them in a single distributed trace

[salaboy]

I strongly support this idea, let's make Keptn and Argo awesome!