Welcome

Thank you for purchasing the MEAP for Kargo in Action. We’re glad to have you reading along while the book is still taking shape, and your early feedback will directly help us make the finished book as useful as it can be.

To get the most out of these pages, you’ll want a working knowledge of Kubernetes: deploying workloads, understanding namespaces, and reading kubectl output, along with comfort reading YAML and a basic understanding of container images and registries. A conceptual awareness of CI/CD pipelines helps, but you don’t need to be an expert. No prior experience with Kargo, Argo CD, or GitOps is required; we build up the background you need as we go.

Most teams have a deployment story, but not a promotion story. They can get a container running in a cluster, yet answering “what version is in staging, how did it get there, and is it safe to move it to production?” turns into a scramble through pipeline logs, Git history, and chat threads. We call this the promotion gap, and it only widens as you add environments, services, and compliance requirements. Kargo is an open-source, Kubernetes-native tool built to close it: it discovers new artifacts, tracks exactly what is eligible to move where, and advances it through your environments under rules and approvals you define.