https://github.com/get-glu/glu
A deployment pipeline framework that sticks
https://github.com/get-glu/glu
continuous-delivery continuous-deployment deployment go golang
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A deployment pipeline framework that sticks
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/get-glu/glu
- Owner: get-glu
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2024-10-29T17:06:47.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-26T18:44:06.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-27T02:23:41.709Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: continuous-delivery, continuous-deployment, deployment, go, golang
- Language: Go
- Homepage: https://docs.getglu.dev
- Size: 15.5 MB
- Stars: 134
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 22
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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README
Glu
A deployment pipeline framework that sticks
Glu is the missing piece in your CI/CD toolbelt.
It is a framework for orchestrating, manipulating, and introspecting deployment configuration stored in version control.
[](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/get-glu/glu)
[](https://discord.gg/Vkz3BPy5ba)
## Mission Statement
To simplify application deployments through a code-first framework that streamlines CI/CD processes. Glu replaces fragmented, manual workflows with maintainable pipelines, providing teams with enhanced visibility, traceability, and control over their deployment journey.
## What Is It?
Glu is a framework built to help manage and coordinate multi-environment deployments using configuration stored in Git.
> [!TIP]
> Read the [CD Pipeline Manifesto](https://manifesto.getglu.dev) to learn about the principles that guide Glu.
Glu has an opinionated set of models and abstractions, which when combined, allow you to build consistent command-line and server processes for orchestrating the progression of applications and configuration across target environments.
📖 Check out our introductory [blog post](https://blog.flipt.io/introducing-glu/) to learn more about why we built Glu.
## What's Included
- An engine for orchestrating the progression of resources across environments by opening pull requests in your Git repositories (optional).
- A CLI for interacting with the state of your pipelines.
- An API for interacting with the state of your pipelines.
- An (optional) UI for visualizing and interacting with the state of your pipelines.
## Use Cases
Use it to implement anything that involves automating updates to Git repositories via commits and pull requests.
- ✅ Track new versions of applications in source repositories (OCI, Helm, etc) and trigger updates to target configuration repositories (Git).
- ⌛️ Coordinate any combination of scheduled, event-driven, or manually triggered promotions from one environment to the next.
- 🔍 Expose a single pane of glass to compare and manipulate the state of your resources in one environment to the next.
- 🗓️ Export standardized telemetry which ties together your entire end-to-end CI/CD and promotion pipeline sequence of events.
## Getting Started
1. Install Glu
```
go get github.com/get-glu/glu
```
2. Follow the [GitOps Example Repository](https://github.com/get-glu/gitops-example) to see Glu in action.
3. Implement your own pipelines using the [Glu SDK](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/get-glu/glu).
## Development
See [DEVELOPMENT.md](./DEVELOPMENT.md) for more information.
## Roadmap Ideas
In the future, we plan to support more functionality, such as:
- New sources:
- Helm
- Webhook / API
- Kubernetes (direct to cluster)
- Progressive delivery (think Kargo / Argo Rollouts)
- Ability to guard promotion with condition checks on resource status
- Expose status via Go function definitions on resource types
- Pinning, history, and rollback
- Ability to view past states for phases
- Be able to pin phases to current or manually overridden states
- Rollback phases to previously known states
## Built By
The team at [Flipt](https://flipt.io). We built Glu to power our own internal promotion pipelines and open-sourced it so that others can benefit from it.