Koncrete - GitOps As A Service With Argo CD

Koncrete is cloud-hosted GitOps and continuous delivery (CD) service for Kubernetes built on top of Argo CD. It is effectively, ArgoCD-as-a-Service or GitOps-as-a-Service type of solution.

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00:00 Introduction to Koncrete
01:45 Setting Up Koncrete
03:48 Creating ArgoCD Applications
08:11 Notifications To Slack
09:35 Argo CD Image Updater
13:32 Other Features And Settings
15:18 Should You Use Koncrete?

[PaoloFilippelli]

Everyday I prepare my popcorns while waiting for your new video, Viktor. You’ve struck a great balance between content and presentation. Thanks!

[Blkhole]

Funny enough, the main question I get asked by clients when pitching argoCD to them is whether there is a SaaS offering. Guess my answer will change as of today, so thank you as always for putting new stuff on our radars.

One possible caveat of using this simplified model is that (at least from what I've seen in your demo) you can only select a Git repo as a source for your applications. In the regular argoCD UI, you also get the option of using a helm repository as source, which comes with the added benefit of pinning the application to a specific chart version. From what I've seen you also get access to the 'regular' UI, so I guess this limitation can be worked around?

P.S. Glad to see I'm not the only madman who paid 400 euros for a Dyson air purifier :)

[kevinyu]

Very inspirational content! Massive appreciaion dude. I like the image updated the most.

[DevOpsToolkit]

What do you think about the idea of using a hosted version of Argo CD (SaaS)?

Since I published the video, the team working on Koncrete already deployed fixes for the issues I was discussing. The connection to Slack should not work, as well as the GitHub repo selector pagination. That was impressively fast. Huge thanks to the Koncrete team.

IMPORTANT: For reasons I do not comprehend (and Google support could not figure out), YouTube tends to delete comments that contain links. Please exclude https:// from the links to ensure that your comments are not removed.

[tianli]

hey Viktor, I'm one of the developers working on Koncrete, and a big fan of the channel. It's really cool to see you doing an in depth video on what we are building. FYI we just deployed a fix for the slack connect and github repo selector issue shown in the video : )

[larsmartin]

Hi Victor. In your example, you built and pushed version 1.0.3. A bit later, however, the ArgoCD UI (still) shows version 1.0.2. Nevertheless, I like your short and concise videos. Thanks.

[aszecowka]

I am wondering if ArgoCD team can do the same as MongoDB and forbid use of ArgoCD in SaaS model. For me this is strange that one company invest their time to develop product and another company is trying to monetize it.

[amitgadhia]

It seems to be a great project unless you don't be dependent on SAAS due to some compliance issue or something. But overall I will say this is something I was waiting for Moreover it would be great if there is a tool as simple as Koncrete that you can deploy on your own cluster as SAAS.

[caesarion]

hmm doesn't this require the k8s api to be public accessible for koncrete/argo to talk to it? Exposing the k8s api feels quite uncomfortable

[sanketjaiswal]

Hi Viktor what about Harness SAAS CD platform, which one would be good Argo CD vs Harness CD.

[javisartdesign]

I am going to ask a question for all. Do these kind of SaaS affect Open Source projects to change their licenses to AGPL? or is it only because bigger Cloud Providers such as AWS, Azure, etc...?

[fpvclub]

Can you add events, workflows and other Argo magic?

[devopslp]

Saas is always good to save time in operation. But, how the service will connect to my cluster? Is it necessary to have the k8s API public available?