Added Ability to Expose an External Preview URL for any Deployed Kubernetes Service

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We've added support for creating service previews.

Armory can now leverage its remote network agent to expose a preview URL for any Kubernetes service it deploys. CD-as-a-Service can generate a cryptographically secure URL for applications developers. This url can be shared with teammates and stakeholders who need to review the deployed functionality. This enables developers access to deployed services on-demand without a dependency on other teams to set up networking.

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To enable a preview service for your deployment, add an expose service step to your canary or blue/green strategy:

        - exposeServices: # step name
            services:     # list of services to expose. Service must be included in the manifests being deployed.
            - potato-facts-internal
            - potato-lies-internal
            ttl: # Optional. Sets lifetime of the exposed service preview. After that period service preview automatically expires. Max lifetime cannot exceed 24 hours, Min is 1 minute, default is 5 minutes.
              duration: 30
              unit: MINUTES # SECONDS, MINUTES or HOURS
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Pipeline graph is now available when deploying to a single target

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Certain functionality, such as trigger nodes and the ability to redeploy an old version, are only available on the pipeline graph. With this change these features are available when deploying to a single target.

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  • Added support for pipeline view during deployments to a single target for easier visual tracking.

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New on the deployment graph: Deployment triggers with source context!

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We've added a new element to the deployment graph called a Trigger Node which explains how a deployment was triggered by displaying the source system, initiating person, and trigger type. This allows anyone on the team to immediately know the source of a deployment, including who triggered it, and how it maps back to a pull request or commit.

When triggering from GitHub, additional source details will appear on the Trigger Node: PR title, PR number, commit SHA, branches, and in the event of a push tag trigger, the associated tag. Each element in the Source section is a deep link back to GitHub.

If context variables were passed with the trigger, they will appear in a Context Variables section on the Trigger Node.

Trigger Nodes will automatically show up on your deployment pipelines. Customers who have already configured a GitHub Action will need to adjust the workflow token permissions in their configuration to view the full set of Source Context information. This can be accomplished by adding a permissions block to your workflow, and adding a token to the GitHub action's env block.

Please refer to the updated documentation pages for more information.
Monitor Deployments

Use Armory's GitHub Action to Deploy Your App Using CD-as-a-Service

permissions:
  contents: read
  pull-requests: read
  statuses: read

# Add GH_TOKEN to env in the cli-deploy-action step
- name: Deploy
  env:
      GH_TOKEN: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
  uses: armory/cli-deploy-action@main