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Definition of keptn

an event-based control plane for continuous delivery and automated operations for cloud-native applications.

keptn on Github

Quickstart with credits on GKE

Benefit of Keptn for different personas

Developers
to focus on code instead of writing tons of configuration files

DevOps
to focus on tools instead of building complex pipelines

SREs
to automate processes instead of manually handling issues

Keptn only requires a plain Kubernetes cluster

Just download the Keptn CLI

curl -sL https://get.keptn.sh | sudo -E bash

And deploy Keptn on your cluster

keptn install --platform=[aks|eks|gke|openshift|pks|kubernetes]

Keptn will be installed with the control plane and all batteries-included services.

Define your application delivery flow

Define your delivery process using a shipyard file and create a new project using your shipyard.yaml file:

keptn create project sockshop
--shipyard=./shipyard.yaml

stages:
  - name: "dev"
    deployment_strategy: "direct"
    test_strategy: "functional"
  - name: "staging"
    deployment_strategy: "blue_green_service"
    test_strategy: "performance"
  - name: "production"
    deployment_strategy: "blue_green_service"
    remediation_strategy: "automated"

Simply onboard services to keptn

Just onboard a service by providing an initial minimal set of Helm charts allowing to deploy your service

Onboard Services

Your service will be onboarded automatically. Keptn will create the proper Helm charts and Istio configuration behind the scenes. All configuration is stored GitOps-style in a Git repository, which you can link to any upstream repository.

keptn onboard service carts
--project=sockshop --chart=./carts

Link Keptn to your CI workflow

New workflows in Keptn are triggered by sending a new-artifact event either via the CLI or the Keptn API. You can easily add this your Continuous Integration scripts.

keptn send event new-artifact --project=sockshop
--service=carts-db --image=mongo

Integration Workflow

Keptn will then start the deployment automatically, following the strategy defined in the shipyard file. After the deployment, Keptn starts the tests, evaluates the quality gates, and in case of a problem, Keptn rolls back the last changes.

Keptn Workflows

Get full observability for your Keptn workflows

Keptn traces every event and all resulting actions and provides real-time tracing information and a powerful API enabling full visibility of every deployment and operations triggered via Keptn.

Provide remediation information to enable automatic remediation

Automatic Remediation

Provide a remediation file as part of your
deployment or service onboarding enabling automatically executing remediation workflows

remediations:
- name: cpu_usage
  actions:
  - action: scaling
    value: +1
- name: high_load
  actions:
  - action: enableFeature (staticContent)

keptn add-resource --project=sockshop
--service=carts --stage=production
--resource=remediation.yaml
--resourceUri=remediation.yaml

Remediation command
{
  "type": "sh.keptn.events.problem",
  "shkeptncontext":
    "08735340-6f9e-4b32-97ff-3b6c292bc509",
  "data": {
    "ImpactedEntity": "carts-primary",
    "ProblemTitle": "cpu_usage_sockshop_carts",
    "State": "OPEN"
  },
}

keptn send event --file=problem.json

Ready to get started now?

We think you are!

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Get in touch!

Whether you are an end user with a strong opinion or you want to participate in the project, we’d love to hear from you! You can find more information about how to reach us in the Keptn community repo

Be part of the movement and participate in our public community meetings every other Thursday!

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