Armory Continuous Deployment

Spec sheet

Purpose

Spinnaker provides continuous delivery and deployment using configurable pipelines made of deployment stages.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

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.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Authentication

Supported authentication methods include SAML, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, LDAP/Active Directory, and x509.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Authorization

Supported authorization options include GitHub Teams, Google Groups, LDAP/Active Directory, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, and SAML.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Deployment strategies

The compatibility matrix lists strategies including canary, blue-green, rolling, and custom pipelines for supported targets.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Deployment targets

The compatibility matrix includes AWS EC2, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine, and AWS Lambda.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Infrastructure provisioning

The Terraform Integration plugin enables provisioning infrastructure as part of Spinnaker and Armory CD pipelines.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

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.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Installation options

The installation guide describes a Minnaker environment on macOS, Linux, or Windows, as well as Kubernetes-based installation methods.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Notifications and monitoring

The compatibility matrix lists Slack, email, GitHub, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, New Relic, Prometheus, and Datadog integrations.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Pipeline integrations

Armory Pipelines-as-Code supports managing pipeline definitions as code in GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Secret management

The compatibility matrix lists AWS Secrets Manager, encrypted GCS and S3 buckets, Kubernetes secrets, and Vault as secret stores for configuration values.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Security guidance

Armory recommends using a secret store for sensitive configuration values and configuring authentication and authorization.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

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.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.armory.io

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Continuous Delivery Software#19 of 327.7
• Kubernetes Deployment Tools#20 of 287.7