Keptn is most frequently used as an orchestrator for delivery orchestration. You can orchestrate any sequence and leverage the built-in Keptn SLO validation. Keptn connects your tools and makes data-driven orchestration decisions without requiring you to do large amounts of custom coding..

This section provides information and samples to illustrate common practices with the following pages:

Tasks and sequences explains the components of the shipyard file that are populated to define what Keptn orchestrates.
A simple project illustrates the shipyard for a multi-stage project with dev, hardening or staging, and production stages that runs functional tests in the hardening stage, and performance tests in the hardening stage.

This project uses the following capabilities:
- The triggeredOn property
- The Deployment with Helm functionality
Delivery sequence builds the shipyard for another multi-stage project but it utilizes the deployment strategies more extensively.
Quality Gates discusses how to set up a quality-gates stage that evaluates a deployment or release using metrics from the observability platform of your choice, based on criteria you define.

This page also includes a short video that steps you through the implementation process for a quality gate evaluation.
Delivery Assistant illustrates how to implement a shipyard that has both manual and automatic delivery options, depending on the results of the quality gates evaluation.

Keptn can also be used to monitor your released software and software site and, if it finds problems, can be set up to “self heal” – in other words, to automatically take steps to remediate the problem. For example, it can scale your resources up or down or roll back the software to a previous release or send notifications to staff members.

Remediation Sequence discusses how to implement automatic remediation on your site.

Other examples of what you can do with Keptn:

Demo: Quality gate evaluation using metrics from another tool provides a video demonstration of how Keptn can run a quality gate evaluation based on metrics from a tool that is not actually an observability platform.
Orchestrate security checks provides a video that discusses how Keptn can analyze your code for security vulnerabilities before and after it is deployed into production.
Orchestrate ArgoCD from Keptn provides links to videos that discuss how to use Keptn to add testing and evaluation to the deployment run with ArgoCD.
Orchestrate Argo Rollouts from Keptn provides links to a video and tutorial about how to implement a Keptn workflow that deploys your software with Argo Rollouts with other features to ensure the health of your deployment.

Define Keptn Projects

Tasks and sequences

A simple project

Delivery sequence

Quality Gates evaluations

Delivery Assistant

Remediation Sequence

Deployment with Helm

Triggers

Run tasks in parallel

Demo: Quality gate evaluation using metrics from another tool

Orchestrate security checks

Orchestrate Argo Rollouts from Keptn

Orchestrate ArgoCD from Keptn

Implement Tracetest trace-based testing with Keptn