Keptn
Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration.
Overview
Keptn is a CNCF project that provides an event-based control plane for cloud-native application lifecycle orchestration. It uses a declarative approach to define multi-stage delivery pipelines, quality gates, and auto-remediation workflows. It can integrate with Argo Rollouts as an analysis provider to perform sophisticated quality evaluations.
✨ Key Features
- Declarative application lifecycle orchestration
- Automated quality gates based on Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Event-driven, loosely coupled architecture
- Auto-remediation of production issues
- Separation of process definition from tool integration
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Event-driven and declarative approach
- Focus on SLO-based quality gates
- Decoupling of process from specific tool integrations
Unique Value: Enables scalable, automated, and data-driven orchestration of application delivery and operations, helping teams to release faster while maintaining quality and reliability.
🎯 Use Cases (3)
✅ Best For
- SLO-driven quality gates for continuous delivery
- Closed-loop remediation for production incidents
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Teams looking for a simple deployment tool (Keptn is an orchestration plane)
- Organizations not focused on SLO-based evaluation
🏆 Alternatives
Provides a more structured and declarative approach to building delivery pipelines and quality gates compared to custom scripting or traditional CI/CD tools. It focuses on 'what' the goal is (SLOs) rather than 'how' to achieve it.
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🔌 Integrations
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Fully-featured, open-source software.
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