Kargo has native support for Argo CD today, but one of it's goals is to be agnostic and could probably work with Dagger or other tools in the future.

But it looks to allow you to defines pipelines using your preferred imperative programming language -- which is awesome. I would totally use that for CI.

Kargo is really about divorcing CI and CD and creating something that's actually CD-focused and compatible with established GitOps principles.

For what it's worth, my colleagues and I have had great luck with Argo Workflows and wrote up a blog post about some of its advantages a few years ago: https://www.interline.io/blog/scaling-openstreetmap-data-wor...

You make per project makefile-like python pipelines that are executed by an installed runtime/docker container?

Then I will give it a try, I've been looking for a lightweight local ad-hoc jenkins substitute.