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Argo Workflows

Container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes.

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Why use Argo Workflows on Plural?

Plural helps you deploy and manage the lifecycle of open-source applications on Kubernetes. Our platform combines the scalability and observability benefits of managed SaaS with the data security, governance, and compliance benefits of self-hosting Argo Workflows.

If you need more than just Argo Workflows, look for other cloud-native and open-source tools in our marketplace of curated applications to leapfrog complex deployments and get started quickly.

Argo Workflows’s websiteGitHubLicenseInstalling Argo Workflows docs
Deploying Argo Workflows is a matter of executing these 3 commands:
plural bundle install argo-workflows argo-workflows-aws
plural build
plural deploy --commit "deploying argo-workflows"
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What is Argo Workflows?

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Argo Workflows is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition).

  • Define workflows where each step in the workflow is a container.
  • Model multi-step workflows as a sequence of tasks or capture the dependencies between tasks using a directed acyclic graph (DAG).
  • Easily run compute intensive jobs for machine learning or data processing in a fraction of the time using Argo Workflows on Kubernetes.

Argo is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project.

Use Cases

Why Argo Workflows?

  • Argo Workflows is the most popular workflow execution engine for Kubernetes.
  • Light-weight, scalable, and easier to use.
  • Designed from the ground up for containers without the overhead and limitations of legacy VM and server-based environments.
  • Cloud agnostic and can run on any Kubernetes cluster.

Read what people said in our latest survey

Try Argo Workflows

You can try Argo Workflows via one of the following:

  1. Interactive Training Material
  2. Access the demo environment

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Who uses Argo Workflows?

About 200+ organizations are officially using Argo Workflows

Ecosystem

Just some of the projects that use or rely on Argo Workflows (complete list here):

Client Libraries

Check out our Java, Golang and Python clients.

Quickstart

Documentation

View the docs

Features

An incomplete list of features Argo Workflows provide:

  • UI to visualize and manage Workflows
  • Artifact support (S3, Artifactory, Alibaba Cloud OSS, Azure Blob Storage, HTTP, Git, GCS, raw)
  • Workflow templating to store commonly used Workflows in the cluster
  • Archiving Workflows after executing for later access
  • Scheduled workflows using cron
  • Server interface with REST API (HTTP and GRPC)
  • DAG or Steps based declaration of workflows
  • Step level input & outputs (artifacts/parameters)
  • Loops
  • Parameterization
  • Conditionals
  • Timeouts (step & workflow level)
  • Retry (step & workflow level)
  • Resubmit (memoized)
  • Suspend & Resume
  • Cancellation
  • K8s resource orchestration
  • Exit Hooks (notifications, cleanup)
  • Garbage collection of completed workflow
  • Scheduling (affinity/tolerations/node selectors)
  • Volumes (ephemeral/existing)
  • Parallelism limits
  • Daemoned steps
  • DinD (docker-in-docker)
  • Script steps
  • Event emission
  • Prometheus metrics
  • Multiple executors
  • Multiple pod and workflow garbage collection strategies
  • Automatically calculated resource usage per step
  • Java/Golang/Python SDKs
  • Pod Disruption Budget support
  • Single-sign on (OAuth2/OIDC)
  • Webhook triggering
  • CLI
  • Out-of-the box and custom Prometheus metrics
  • Windows container support
  • Embedded widgets
  • Multiplex log viewer

Community Meetings

We host monthly community meetings where we and the community showcase demos and discuss the current and future state of the project. Feel free to join us! For Community Meeting information, minutes and recordings please see here.

Participation in the Argo Workflows project is governed by the CNCF Code of Conduct

Community Blogs and Presentations

Project Resources

Security

See SECURITY.md.

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FAQ

Plural is open-source and self-hosted. You retain full control over your deployments in your cloud. We perform automated testing and upgrades and provide out-of-the-box Day 2 operational workflows. Monitor, manage, and scale your configuration with ease to meet changing demands of your business. Read more.

We support deploying on all major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. We also support all on-prem Kubernetes clusters, including OpenShift, Tanzu, Rancher, and others.

No, Plural does not have access to any cloud environments when deployed through the CLI. We generate deployment manifests in the Plural Git repository and then use your configured cloud provider's CLI on your behalf. We cannot perform anything outside of deploying and managing the manifests that are created in your Plural Git repository. However, Plural does have access to your cloud credentials when deployed through the Cloud Shell. Read more.