# Armory

> Armory is a software deployment company founded in 2016 that commercialized Spinnaker through an enterprise distribution, premium plugins, managed services and support, and later offered Kubernetes-focused Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service. Harness acquired key Armory intellectual property and technology assets in January 2024 and announced continued support for self-hosted customers.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Daniel R. Odio (Co-founder and founding CEO; became chairman in September 2021), Isaac Mosquera (Co-founder and CTO), Ben Mappen (Co-founder and CPO)
- **Products:** Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted, Armory Continuous Deployment Managed, Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service, Scale Agent for Spinnaker and Kubernetes, Policy Engine
- **Notable:** Joined Y Combinator Winter 2017., Reported more than $82 million in total funding by October 2020., Reported dozens of Global 2000 customers in 2019.

## Products & services

- **Armory Continuous Deployment Self-Hosted** — Licensed enterprise distribution of Spinnaker running in a customer Kubernetes cluster, with essential and optional premium plugins.
- **Armory Continuous Deployment Managed** — Enterprise Spinnaker installed in the customer cloud and managed by Armory engineers.
- **Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service** — Historical SaaS offering introduced in 2022 for declarative Kubernetes deployment orchestration, canary and blue/green rollouts, and integration with existing tools. Current availability should be confirmed with Harness.
- **Scale Agent for Spinnaker and Kubernetes** — Lightweight service and Clouddriver plugin that streams Kubernetes changes and supports scalable cluster management.
- **Policy Engine** — Proprietary Spinnaker/Armory CD plugin using Open Policy Agent to validate pipeline changes, execution and API authorization.
- **Pipelines-as-Code / Dinghy** — Synchronizes pipeline definitions from version-controlled files in GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab.
- **Support and deployment services** — Commercial support, training and operational expertise for enterprise deployment platforms.

## Achievements

- Joined Y Combinator Winter 2017.
- Reported more than $82 million in total funding by October 2020.
- Reported dozens of Global 2000 customers in 2019.
- Launched Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service with AWS SaaS Factory support in 2022.
- Key technology and IP assets acquired by Harness in January 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Harness announced acquisition of key Armory technology and IP assets and ongoing support for self-hosted customers.
- **2024-04** — Harness published a Spinnaker-to-Harness pipeline migration tool announcement.
- **2025-10** — Armory’s main product documentation lists the Armory Operator as deprecated and end of life, directing users to Kustomize deployment.
- **2026-09** — Research observation: armory.io redirects to Harness’s continuous-delivery product page.

## Links

- Website: https://www.armory.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/armory.io/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cloudarmory
- GitHub: https://github.com/armory-io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ESNuSCMXLsdRdBDhjSzcA/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cloudarmory

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Last updated: 2026-09-30