argoproj/argo-cd

Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

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Summary Information

Updated 1 hour ago
Added to GitGenius on August 31st, 2021
Created on February 9th, 2018
Open Issues & Pull Requests: 4,402 (-5)
GitHub issues: Enabled
Number of forks: 7,929
Total Stargazers: 24,349 (+0)
Total Subscribers: 222 (+0)

Repository Insights (GitGenius)

Median issue/PR response: 6.0 days
Mean response time: 265.1 days
90th percentile: 993.6 days
Tracked items: 4,613

Maintainer activity

108 people did triage or write work on this repository in the last 12 months.

At least 7% of argo-cd's 108 maintainers work at Red Hat. 60 say where they work, and 8 of those are Red Hat.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation owns this repository. 1 of its person did this work here, and is not included above.

Counts unlabeled, assigned, unassigned, milestoned, demilestoned, locked, unlocked over the last 12 months. These are issue and pull request events that require triage or write permission. Commits and code review are not counted. labeled and renamed are excluded because GitHub issue forms record the issue author as the actor. Figures from October 7, 2026. This count is not comparable across projects: each project's automation decides which of these events a person emits.

How this project is maintained

About 11% of issues opened in the past year have never received a reply. 87% of open issues come from outside the core team, so the backlog reflects real-world use rather than internal planning. Work labelled "component:cli" is answered fastest, typically in about 4 days, while "version:EOL" waits about 8 months. 39% of tracked open issues have had no activity in three months. Only 52% of issues opened in the past year have been closed.

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Issue Activity (beta)

Open issues: 3,552
New in 7 days: 27
Closed in 7 days: 15
Avg open age: 928 days
Stale 30+ days: 3,392
Stale 90+ days: 3,104

Recent activity

Opened in 7 days: 22
Closed in 7 days: 10
Comments in 7 days: 27
Events in 7 days: 78

Top labels

  • bug (5,983)
  • enhancement (3,589)
  • component:ui (1,037)
  • triage/pending (899)
  • component:application-sets (425)
  • good first issue (369)
  • component:core (313)
  • more-information-needed (307)

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Detailed Description

Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, written in Go and designed to automate application deployment and lifecycle management. The project implements the GitOps philosophy by treating application definitions, configurations, and environments as declarative, version-controlled resources that drive automated deployment to Kubernetes clusters. The tool enables users to define desired application states in Git repositories and automatically synchronizes those states to running clusters, providing an auditable and transparent approach to continuous delivery.

The repository is classified across multiple domains including application synchronization, kubernetes deployment, continuous delivery, cluster management, and self-healing systems. GitGenius tracking identifies it as a comprehensive GitOps framework supporting blue-green deployments, rollout strategies, rollbacks and versioning, and multi-cluster support. The project maintains integration tests and code coverage monitoring, with SLSA 3 supply chain security certification and CII Best Practices badge recognition, indicating strong security and quality standards.

Community engagement around Argo CD is substantial and well-organized. The project maintains multiple communication channels including GitHub Discussions for Q&A, a dedicated Slack channel, and regular contributor office hours held every Thursday. Monthly user community meetings occur on the first Wednesday of each month. The repository has generated significant ecosystem interest, with numerous blog posts and presentations covering topics ranging from enterprise-scale continuous delivery to combining Argo CD with other tools like Crossplane, KubeVela, and Argo Events.

Argo CD is distributed through Artifact Hub and maintains official Helm chart support for Kubernetes deployment. The documentation is comprehensive and available at argo-cd.readthedocs.io, with a live demo accessible at cd.apps.argoproj.io. The project is governed by the CNCF Code of Conduct and maintains an official user list documenting organizations that have adopted Argo CD for production deployments.