Argo Workflows is an open-source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes.
It is part of Argo Project, which is a collection of Kubernetes-native tools for running and managing jobs and applications on Kubernetes.
Argo Workflows is designed to run large-scale and complex workflows and data pipelines in Kubernetes. It allows you to stitch together jobs using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) or steps. Argo also supports more complex workflows such as loops, recursion, conditionals (e.g., if/else), dynamic workflows, and more.
Here are some key features of Argo Workflows:
Argo Workflows is designed for large-scale, compute-intensive jobs and is particularly suited for data processing tasks, batch jobs, ETL jobs, and machine learning workflows.
Orchestration systems decide where and when workloads run on a cluster of machines (physical or virtual). On top of that, orchestration systems usually help manage the lifecycle of the workloads running on them. Nowadays, these systems are usually used to orchestrate containers, with the most popular one being Kubernetes.
There are many advantages to using Orchestration tools: