Brigade Overview

Brigade is a Kubernetes-native tool for doing event-driven scripting. Here’s what that means:

• Brigade is for running scriptable automated tasks in the cloud.
• Brigade does not require you to manage host servers.
• Brigade is particularly well suited for CI and CD workloads such as:
  • Automated testing
  • GitHub hook integration
  • Building artifacts and releases
  • Managing deployments
• Brigade is built directly on Kubernetes APIs, which means…
  • You can deploy Brigade onto any stock Kubernetes system, from Azure to Minikube
  • You can monitor Brigade and its jobs using Kubernetes tools (or with Brigade’s own tools, of course)
  • Brigade uses Kubernetes resource types
  • Brigade can be deployed and managed with helm.
  • Brigade can easily be integrated with draft.
• Brigade uses technologies designed to make builds easy:
  • Write configuration in basic JavaScript (no need to learn Node.js)
  • Encapsulate build steps in Docker images. Or better yet, just use off-the-shelf Docker images.

Brigade is designed for teams. It is not a SaaS, nor does it require a legion of domain experts to configure and run it. Instead, it should be easy to install, configure, and maintain.