Armory Continuous Deployment
Armory Continuous Deployment is an enterprise distribution of Spinnaker that runs in a Kubernetes cluster and adds essential and optional premium plugins.
What Armory Continuous Deployment is
Armory Continuous Deployment is an enterprise distribution of Spinnaker that runs in a Kubernetes cluster and adds essential and optional premium plugins. Spinnaker delivers software through configurable pipelines built from deployment stages. Supported strategies include canary, blue-green, rolling, and custom pipelines, with targets such as AWS EC2, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine, and AWS Lambda. Armory Pipelines-as-Code lets teams manage pipeline definitions in GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab, while the Terraform Integration plugin can provision infrastructure within pipelines. Integrations listed for notifications and monitoring include Slack, email, GitHub, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, New Relic, Prometheus, and Datadog. Authentication and authorization options include SAML, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, LDAP/Active Directory, and x509, with additional authorization options such as GitHub Teams and Google Groups. It supports several secret stores for configuration values. The product requires a license, with pricing available on request, and runs on a certified Kubernetes cluster; production installations need external storage.
Good
- Supports canary, blue-green, and rolling strategies.
- Targets include AWS, Kubernetes, and Google GKE.
- Pipeline definitions can be managed as code in Git.
- Offers multiple authentication and authorization methods.
- Includes integrations for notifications and monitoring.
Watch out
- No free plan; pricing is available on request.
- Production installations need external storage.
- Terraform support excludes troubleshooting scripts and infrastructure creation.
Who it suits
Armory Continuous Deployment suits enterprise teams that need configurable delivery pipelines across supported cloud, Kubernetes, and other targets. It is relevant to teams managing pipeline definitions in Git or provisioning infrastructure as part of deployment workflows.
Verdict
Armory CD brings deployment pipelines, integrations, and access controls into a Kubernetes-based enterprise distribution of Spinnaker. Teams should review its licensing, cluster requirements, and Terraform support boundary before choosing it.
Plans and prices
From Armory Continuous Deployment's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Armory Continuous Deployment | Priced on request | Requires a license · contact Armory for licensing |
The facts
Each one read from Armory Continuous Deployment's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Authentication
- Supported authentication methods include SAML, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, LDAP/Active Directory, and x509.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Authorization
- Supported authorization options include GitHub Teams, Google Groups, LDAP/Active Directory, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, and SAML.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment strategies
- The compatibility matrix lists strategies including canary, blue-green, rolling, and custom pipelines for supported targets.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment targets
- The compatibility matrix includes AWS EC2, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine, and AWS Lambda.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Infrastructure provisioning
- The Terraform Integration plugin enables provisioning infrastructure as part of Spinnaker and Armory CD pipelines.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Infrastructure requirements
- Armory CD runs on a certified Kubernetes cluster; the requirements page lists Kubernetes versions 1.20 through 1.25 and says production installations need external storage.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Installation options
- The installation guide describes a Minnaker environment on macOS, Linux, or Windows, as well as Kubernetes-based installation methods.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Notifications and monitoring
- The compatibility matrix lists Slack, email, GitHub, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, New Relic, Prometheus, and Datadog integrations.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Pipeline integrations
- Armory Pipelines-as-Code supports managing pipeline definitions as code in GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Product
- Armory Continuous Deployment is an enterprise distribution of Spinnaker that runs in a Kubernetes cluster and extends it with essential and optional premium plugins.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Spinnaker provides continuous delivery and deployment using configurable pipelines made of deployment stages.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Secret management
- The compatibility matrix lists AWS Secrets Manager, encrypted GCS and S3 buckets, Kubernetes secrets, and Vault as secret stores for configuration values.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security guidance
- Armory recommends using a secret store for sensitive configuration values and configuring authentication and authorization.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support limitation
- Armory states that support for Terraform Integration covers configuring it and using its pipeline stage, but not troubleshooting Terraform scripts or infrastructure creation.checked 30 Sep 2026
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