Plugins

This section describes the plugins available for PipeCD v1 and how to use them.

Note: The Plugins section is a work in progress. More plugin docs are on the way. Happy PipeCDing!

Plugin Description Status
Kubernetes multi-cluster Deploy a single application to multiple Kubernetes clusters with one pipeline. Alpha
ECS Deploy applications to Amazon ECS using the EXTERNAL deployment controller Alpha

This section contains configuration guides for the official PipeCD plugins.

In PipeCD v1, plugins handle deployments. piped runs each configured plugin as a separate process and communicates with it over gRPC, so which platforms your piped can deploy to depends on which plugins you configure. See more about plugins.

There are two types of plugins:

  • Deployment plugins: handle the deployment for a specific platform such as Kubernetes or Terraform.
  • Stage plugins: provide pipeline stages that can be used with any deployment plugin, such as WAIT or ANALYSIS.

Official plugins

The PipeCD maintainers develop and maintain the following plugins. Each plugin is versioned and released independently. You can download the plugin binaries from the releases page.

Deployment plugins

Plugin Description
Kubernetes Deploys applications to a Kubernetes cluster. Supports quick sync and pipeline sync with canary, baseline, and blue-green strategies.
Kubernetes multi-cluster Deploys a single application to multiple Kubernetes clusters with one pipeline.
Terraform Applies infrastructure changes by running terraform plan and terraform apply in a pipeline.
Amazon ECS Deploys applications to Amazon ECS.

Stage plugins

Plugin Stage Description
Wait WAIT Waits for a specified duration before continuing the pipeline.
Wait approval WAIT_APPROVAL Pauses the pipeline until a user approves the deployment.
Analysis ANALYSIS Evaluates the deployment by querying metrics, logs, or HTTP endpoints.
Script run SCRIPT_RUN Runs arbitrary commands as a pipeline stage.

Community plugins

The PipeCD community maintains additional plugins in the community-plugins repository. Visit the repository for a list of available plugins and their documentation.

Using a plugin

To add a plugin to your piped and register deploy targets, see Configuring a plugin.

Writing your own plugin

Anyone can develop a plugin for PipeCD. See the plugin development guide to get started.

ECS Plugin

Specific guide to configuring deployment for Amazon ECS application using the ECS plugin.

Kubernetes Plugin

How to configure the Kubernetes plugin.

Kubernetes multi-cluster plugin

Deploy a single Kubernetes application to multiple clusters with one pipeline.

Terraform Plugin

How to configure the Terraform plugin.

Analysis Plugin

This page describes how to add an Analysis Provider to analyze the metrics of your deployment.


Last modified July 19, 2026: docs: move plugin configuration guides to plugins section (#6698) (effc80217)