Two of the most popular guides we’ve written are the GitOps promotion guide and the ApplicationSet guide. Used together, they explain an end-to-end solution for organizing your GitOps applications and promoting them between different environments, while keeping things DRY by using application sets. Both of these guides use Kustomize. We offered some hints for Helm users, but this is a dedicated guide for Helm applications.

One of Argo CD’s standout features is its powerful user interface (UI) that shows the live status of all applications and the respective Kubernetes resources. Both developers and operators can quickly understand the status of their deployments by looking at the UI and drilling down into all the different views of Argo CD applications. Some teams even use the Argo CD UI as a generic Kubernetes dashboard and management interface (especially after the addition of the web-based terminal feature).

Welcome to our quick start guide, designed to help you get the most from Codefresh. Whether you want to use the CI portion to build and test your applications or explore the GitOps feature powered by Argo CD, this is the place to start. We’ll walk you through setting up runtimes for non-production and testing purposes and provide sample code to ensure you have everything you need to get started. You can use the code provided as a model if you need to deploy in a production manner.

Argo CD is the most popular GitOps tool for deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters. Many teams that move their applications to Kubernetes choose Argo CD for its powerful sync engine and intuitive dashboard. Argo CD is also fully open source, which means teams can freely install it on their private clouds, behind-the-firewall data centers, or even in air-gapped environments without any licensing restrictions.