Self-service deploys with a full audit trail: a live demo of the Akuity Platform.

Eddie Webbinaro, Head of Solutions Engineering at Akuity, builds a self-service deployment path end to end on the Akuity Platform. Platform teams define promotion stages, gates, and custom steps once in Kargo, and developers ship from dev through staging to production inside those guardrails, with every promotion recorded for audit. Eddie also shows how developers can diagnose a failed Argo CD sync with the Deployment Advisor, and how the On-Call Agent can remediate a degraded application before anyone pages an SRE. Eddie ran a 10,000+ user CI/CD platform with PCI DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley controls at a Fortune 100 insurer, and previously worked at CircleCI and Atlassian.

Key Takeaways:

• Define promotion policy once instead of approving each deploy by hand. Stages, gates, and custom steps live in Kargo, so the same controls apply to every release without a platform engineer in the loop for routine approvals.

• Self-service and auditability come from the same paved path. When the compliant path is also the easiest one, developers follow it, and each promotion through dev, staging, and production leaves an audit trail you can hand to an auditor.

• Promotion becomes the enforcement boundary. Kargo custom steps can run anything you can containerize, including image vulnerability scans, policy validation, database migrations, and infrastructure automation, as a gate before a release moves forward.

• Failed syncs don't have to become tickets. The Deployment Advisor helps developers diagnose why an Argo CD sync failed, and the On-Call Agent can remediate a degraded application instead of paging an SRE.

Helpful Links:

• Explore the Akuity Platform → https://akuity.io/akuity-platform
• Book a demo → https://akuity.io/get-in-touch
• Kargo documentation → https://docs.kargo.io
• Join the Akuity & Kargo community on Discord → https://discord.com/invite/Y6Fs6HMZVR