The CG DevX provides workload promotion as a part of workload GitOps repository. Promotion is done using a combination of Git provider native workflow and Argo Workflow.

Argo Workflow provides platform wide workflow templates, detailed visualization of the process, integrated with secret management, and scoped down to a workload. To access Argo Workflow, follow the link in the platform GitOps repository readme file (README.md), or provided by operators (AKA a platform team).

Argo Workflow is configured to use Vault as its OIDC provider.

CG DevX also provides templates to use only Git provider for promotions.

.
├── .argo
│   └── promote-wf.yaml
├── .github
│   ├── terraform.yaml
│   └── workflows
│       ├── promote_gha_only.yaml_gha
│       └── promote.yaml
...

Promotion is done by copying of manifest files from source to target environment. For more details please see workload environment modeling

Source and target environment definitions could be extended by updating promote.yaml workflow. Options should map to your environment names (folder names), or you could implement additional transformer.

---
# Promote a GitOps workload from one environment to the next
name: Promote workload
# Controls when the workflow will run
on:
  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      source_env:
        description: Source environment
        required: true
        default: dev
        type: choice
        options: [ <your environment folder names> ]
      target_env:
        description: Target environment
        required: true
        default: sta
        type: choice
        options: [ <your environment folder names> ]
...