[tonnydourado]

> Unlike CI, Kargo deployment pipelines are not generic “jobs” (...). Instead, Kargo Stages are used to model your environments (...)

I didn't see an explanation of how Stages are different than jobs. Every single usage of Stage could have been replaced with job and the meaning would stay the same.

The data and DevOps marketing people really need to drop the buzzwordism.

[reilly3000]

I am a fan of the term- after long naming wars internally we settled on promotion stage to signify the same concept. It is one or more targeted clusters that function as one of several environments. It works both in the sense of stage as venue and stage as phase. Teams promote their config from something like dev to QA to Preprod to Prod. Often there is a need for business logic to happen before advancing to another stage, or multiple environments in different regions that need to be healthy within a stage before promotion can happen.

Job doesn’t really encapsulate this at all. An alternative may be Metaenvironments.

[0xbadcafebee]

Stages are just quality gates. When the quality level is high enough, the gate is released and the next step in the pipeline is performed.