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Argo vs Spinnaker: What are the differences?

Argo: Container-native workflows for Kubernetes. Argo is an open source container-native workflow engine for getting work done on Kubernetes. Argo is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition); Spinnaker: Multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers.

Argo belongs to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack, while Spinnaker can be primarily classified under "Continuous Deployment".

Argo and Spinnaker are both open source tools. Spinnaker with 6.37K GitHub stars and 911 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Argo with 3.47K GitHub stars and 497 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Spinnaker has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Argo, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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    Open Source
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    Autosinchronize the changes to deploy
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    Online service, no need to install anything
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    Mature

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      No GitOps
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      Configuration time
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      Management overhead
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    What is Argo?

    Argo is an open source container-native workflow engine for getting work done on Kubernetes. Argo is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition).

    What is Spinnaker?

    Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers.

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