Overview

PipeCD - a GitOps style continuous delivery solution

What Is PipeCD?

Why PipeCD?

• Simple, unified and easy to use, but powerful pipeline definition to construct your deployment
• Same deployment interface to deploy applications of any platform, including Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS and more.
• Offers extensibility with a plugin-architecture, allowing users to create plugins and deploy custom applications
• No CRD or applications’ manifest changes are required; Only need a pipeline definition along with your application manifests
• No deployment credentials are exposed or required outside the application cluster
• Built-in deployment analysis as part of the deployment pipeline to measure impact based on metrics, logs, emitted requests
• Easy to interact with any CI; The CI tests and builds artifacts, PipeCD takes the rest
• Insights show metrics like lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR and change failure rate to measure delivery performance
• Designed to manage thousands of cross-platform applications in multi-cloud at company scale but also works well for small projects

PipeCD’s Characteristics in detail

Visibility

• Deployment pipeline UI shows clearly what is happening
• Separate logs viewer for each individual deployment
• Real-time visualization of application state
• Deployment notifications to Slack, webhook endpoints
• Insights show metrics like lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR and change failure rate to measure delivery performance

Automation

• Automated deployment analysis to measure deployment impact based on metrics, logs, emitted requests
• Automatically roll back to the previous state as soon as analysis or a pipeline stage fails
• Automatically detect configuration drift to notify and render the changes
• Automatically trigger a new deployment when a defined event has occurred (e.g. container image pushed, helm chart published, etc)

Safety and Security

• Supports single sign-on and role-based access control
• Credentials are not exposed outside the cluster and not saved in the Control Plane
• piped makes only outbound requests and can run inside a restricted network
• Built-in secrets management

Multi-provider & Multi-Tenancy

• Supports multiple application kinds on multi-cloud including Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS and more with plugins.
• Supports multiple analysis providers including Prometheus, Datadog, Stackdriver, and more
• Easy to operate multi-cluster, multi-tenancy by separating Control Plane and piped

Open Source

• Released as an Open Source project
• Under APACHE 2.0 license, see LICENSE

Where should I go next?

For a good understanding of the PipeCD’s components.

• Concepts: describes each component.
• FAQ: describes the difference between PipeCD and other tools.

If you are an operator wanting to install and configure PipeCD for other developers.

• Quickstart
• Managing Control Plane
• Managing piped

If you are a user using PipeCD to deploy your application/infrastructure:

• User Guide
• Examples

If you want to be a contributor:

• Contributor Guide