Templates

Reusable Argo Workflow definitions, managed by Pipekit across clusters.

A Template in Pipekit is an Argo WorkflowTemplate or ClusterWorkflowTemplate that Pipekit manages on your behalf.

Templates let you define a workflow once and reference it from many Pipes. Pipekit version-controls Templates against your Git repository and propagates updates to every cluster a Template is registered on. A Template lives in one place but executes anywhere you've connected to Pipekit.

A Pipe can reference a Template via templateRef in its workflow spec. Pipekit will pin the version of the Template that the Pipe uses, or follow latest to track the default branch of the Template's Git repository.

You'll encounter Templates when you want to:

• Share a reusable workflow component (a build step, a data ingestion task, a release procedure) across teams or environments.

• Pin production Pipes to a specific Template version while letting development Pipes follow latest.

• Manage ClusterWorkflowTemplate resources across more than one cluster without applying YAML to each cluster by hand.

For task-oriented documentation, see Using Pipekit > Templates.