Analyst(s): Alastair Cooke
Publication Date: December 11, 2025
Akuity used AWS re:Invent to announce the expansion of its continuous delivery and promotion product to support multi-environment, multi-target delivery. Akuity is the creator of Argo CD and Kargo, providing a platform for unified application and infrastructure promotion across Kubernetes, VMs, and serverless.
What is Covered in this Article:
- The Akuity makes Argo CD and Kargo enterprise-ready for global-scale application deployment and promotion.
- New support for applications in VMs and serverless platforms, simplifying deployment and promotion in enterprise environments.
- The AI SRE can autonomously respond to faults, restoring the application to a working state.
The News: Akuity announced the expansion of its platform to provide continuous delivery and promotion across multi-environment, multi-target applications. Akuity can now promote application and infrastructure versions across Kubernetes, Terraform, VMs, and Serverless. Akuity centralizes cross-environment promotions for global customers with hybrid architectures.
Hybrid Multi-Cloud GitOps Controls Your Continuous Delivery and Promotion
Analyst Take: You may not have heard the name Akuity often, but you cannot move in the world of Kubernetes and GitOps without hearing of Argo CD. The creators of Argo founded Akuity to provide a full-featured, enterprise-ready platform built on Argo CD. The Akuity platform adds governance and security for application deployment across multiple Kubernetes clusters, and now VMs and serverless platforms. We spoke with Akuity’s CEO, Hong Wang, at KubeCon North America 2025, where he explained how vital Akuity’s graphical console is for customers, enabling visualization of complex application deployments that are otherwise hard to comprehend. Alongside Argo CD, Akuity created Kargo to support multi-environment deployment. Argo CD operates within a Kubernetes environment or cluster (e.g., the Staging cluster), while Kargo enables movement between environments (e.g., from Staging to Production).
The updates to the Akuity platform, announced at AWS re:Invent 2025, extend beyond Kubernetes to also support both legacy applications running in VMs and modern applications on serverless platforms. Support for VM-based applications reflects a focus on enterprise adoption, as cloud-native applications in containers or serverless have not yet supplanted the long heritage of business applications in VMs. Wang is quoted as saying, “We work with so many global organizations to support massive cloud deployments, but what we’ve seen is that most organizations need hybrid, multi-environment support. With this launch, we are now able to centralize cross-environment promotions for our existing customers and support global clients with hybrid architectures.”
The addition of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support (Terraform and OpenTofu) to Kargo expands the ability to create and configure new environments during the promotion process. Direct IaC tooling is easier to manage than using a custom Kubernetes operator and CRD, or scripting in a Continuous Integration (CI) system, to configure non-Kubernetes infrastructure.
Hong Wang also emphasized the September 2025 release of an AI capability in the Akuity platform. The AI can identify issues during deployment and promotion, and if a deployment fails, automatically roll it back to a previously working state. Wang shared a story about a customer in which Akuity AI did precisely this, restoring production quickly after an AWS DNS outage prevented deployment of a new container image. Several of our conversations with vendors at KubeCon 2025 focused on AI Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) as a solution to the increasing complexity of applications and infrastructure in large organizations.
You may have a small application estate with few challenges coordinating updates across it. You may never experience an outage in production applications due to failed deployment or successful deployment of faulty code. If you aren’t lucky enough, you’re probably struggling with continuous delivery and promotion across your many applications and locations. You may well already have Argo CD in your lineup; it might be time to look for a managed enterprise platform to help simplify continuous delivery and promotion for more reliable production.
What to Watch:
- There are many competitors in the CI/CD space, including Harness, Devtron, and Spinnaker.
- Akuity has the most outstanding value for complex, multi-environment deployments with an Enterprise heritage.
See the complete press release from Akuity’s re:Invent announcement on the website.
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Author Information
Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfil business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS. Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.
