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Superior tool to modernize CI/CD
What do you like best about the product?
Docker based model which avoids the pitfalls of using Jenkins with conflicting plugins. YAML configuration is modern, readable, and easily accepted by different software development groups. Hybrid installation for on-prem runners and SaaS hosted UI allowed us to keep our data internal while getting updates and product improvements with no upgrades on our part. Docker containers with each step gives granular control of software version for the task. Integrations with Kubernetes allow for complete CI/CD with native steps and less scripting. Really liked the CLI capabilities in addition to intuitive user interface. Support has been amazingly responsive and is invested in our success.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike. It is a growing product in the landscape of CI/CD so it not the first product to come to mind for an evaluation. With some research, it quickly moves to the top of a product comparison list with more established tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Face it, Jenkins has been around forever has not changed. Plugin collisions are a problem and as different software teams are converged into a CI tool, it becomes difficult to maintain. Codefresh has a Docker container for each step so software teams use the version they need to build and test their application. In addition, we were able to create our own runtime Docker containers to avoid constantly installing exact versions of packages to prep each build environment. Build times are shorter, teams are making pipeline changes faster, and our full pipeline of tools are all integrated: source control, CI server, artifact management, deploy targets.
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Great product with great support
What do you like best about the product?
The product speaks for itself as far as reliability, name recognition and quality. What really sets them apart for me is the hasty response time from support when our company needs something. Has been nothing but a pleasure to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing comes to mind in regards to negative commentary.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Their assistance in our CI/CD pipeline projects as well as help with any Docker related issues has helped a lot.
Speed and Customer Service
What do you like best about the product?
I looked far and wide for a replacement for Jenkins in an effort to update our pipelines and increase team engagement. Codefresh was the clear winner. Codefresh pipelines are easy to build and have a ton of great features with more coming out all the time. Their build optimizations help keep teams moving forward and not sitting around waiting on builds. They have been very responsive to any and all requests including technical support and feature requests. Codefresh supports our container workloads as well as serverless for both CI and CD.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the Jenkins jobs we haven't migrated yet. :)
The codefresh UI used to be a bit slow, but it's improved a lot.
The codefresh UI used to be a bit slow, but it's improved a lot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a real problem with a lack of reusability and engagement in messy copy-paste pipelines. Codefresh yaml is easy to grasp quickly and we can create our own reusable steps. Our development teams really like working with Codefresh and are largely self-sufficient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Codefresh is ideal for container-based workflows. Modern pipelines run in containers and your toolset is installed via Docker build. Codefresh gives you caching to speed up your builds.
Pipeline debugger will change your life
What do you like best about the product?
Codefresh makes it insanely easy to integrate my CI/CD pipeline with my K8s infrastructure, without requiring that my K8s infra be married to the CI/CD pipeline or owned by it.
The pipeline debugging feature, as the title indicates, is a HUGE game changer. Too many pipelines end up as just a complicated mess of abstractions over the actual logic that is being executed at a given moment, but with the ability to enter a debugging state before, during (for freestyle steps, at least), or after a step has executed allows you to make certain that what you think is happening is actually what is happening.
The variety of nearly flawless Codefresh customized containers that they provide as steps you can easily implement in your pipeline while safely abstracting away implementation details and maintaining security and integrity within the pipeline makes my job of implementing a pipeline for the various projects within our company so much easier.
The pipeline debugging feature, as the title indicates, is a HUGE game changer. Too many pipelines end up as just a complicated mess of abstractions over the actual logic that is being executed at a given moment, but with the ability to enter a debugging state before, during (for freestyle steps, at least), or after a step has executed allows you to make certain that what you think is happening is actually what is happening.
The variety of nearly flawless Codefresh customized containers that they provide as steps you can easily implement in your pipeline while safely abstracting away implementation details and maintaining security and integrity within the pipeline makes my job of implementing a pipeline for the various projects within our company so much easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
The default implementation of the Codefresh deployments does require your pipeline to be responsible for the app from initial deployment onward in order to work. However, with the abundance of other step types they provide and crafty use of freestyle steps, you can easily have your own deployment requirements met if the Codefresh defaults don't work for you, for whatever reason.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Codefresh to handle the CI/CD pipeline for our app deployments. We have gained a number of benefits from using Codefresh specifically for this, but the most prominent are likely the fast-fail methodology that the Codefresh CLI lets us utilize by running test builds of the pipeline or executing quick code changes through the pipeline locally, as well as the custom steps you can create and make available to your organization allowing for simple sharing of logic between various pipelines.
Perfect balance between low- and high-level CI/CD management
What do you like best about the product?
Perfect balance between low-level close-to-the-metal container-based pipelines and high-level super-user-friendly UI, GitOps support, pipeline debugging with breakpoints, K8s/Docker/Helm as first-class citizens, built-in secrets, a multitude of integrations, great doc and support material/videos/webinars, nice people... (well, there's so much more, do you really want me to keep going?!? ;)
What do you dislike about the product?
Set of commands that can be invoked while troubleshooting a pipeline in debug mode is very limited (cd, cat, ls...)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Capture a rather complex workflow of GitOps pipelines into a relatively simple setup that all developers in our various teams will be able to use, comprehend, troubleshoot and extend.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I was very happy to discover that Cloud Posse (one of Codefresh's partners) has great documentation, examples and tools to implement DevOps best practices with Codefresh, the most interesting of which is Geodesic. Make sure to check it out, it really helped me a lot! :)
Amazing service that saves a ton of time and money
What do you like best about the product?
Managing Kubernetes is very complicated and requires someone with a highly specialized skillset, one that's only just now starting to become more popular. Being a software engineer and business owner, I don't have time to manage my daily workload and stay up to date with whatever is happening in the Kubernetes world but at the same time I can't afford dedicated staff to handle that. Between Google Cloud Platform and CodeFresh, I can get by with my limited knowledge very easily and I rarely ever have to get into the Kubernetes plumbing which makes CodeFresh worth the price. Not to mention the insane amount of time it saves me automating my deployments and notifying clients via Slack of their tasks being delivered to production or being ready for review, so I don't have to write a ton of emails. We've just established a simple system so they know when to start looking.
What do you dislike about the product?
Had some hiccups with support not answering a few of my inquiries at first, but my recent couple experiences have been great and they even personally reached out to learn about the problem when I was a bit blunt about the lack of a response in further support inquiries. Everything was resolved, so really there's nothing I dislike about CodeFresh at the moment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Automated Deployments / Builds
- Automated Client Notification (kinda a hidden benefit)
- Initially Kubernetes Management, but I've learned enough about Kubernetes to do that directly through Google Cloud Platform now
- Initially container hosting which was since removed
- Automated Client Notification (kinda a hidden benefit)
- Initially Kubernetes Management, but I've learned enough about Kubernetes to do that directly through Google Cloud Platform now
- Initially container hosting which was since removed
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely try it out!
Critical to our development process
What do you like best about the product?
Our pipeline gives us the ability to quickly and automatically create PR environments so features can be easily tested by our QA engineers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently we only have an allowance of 2 parallel builds which can sometimes mean that builds get delayed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Codefresh gives us a robust and repeatable pipeline that performs building, testing and deployment for our web applications. This has lead to a much cleaner deployment process for our apps and increased our efficiency as developers.
Pipeline Automation made right
What do you like best about the product?
Docker first: With every step being a docker container I don't have to worry about the management of worker nodes.
Custom Steps: I have 3 right now which have been extremely valuable in that I don't have to update 30 pipelines when I made a simple change to them. The custom steps support versioning too.
Pipeline Debugger: I love being able to add breakpoints to a pipeline! Extremely valuable when I'm writing a new pipeline. I don't have to run what I know is going to be a busted pipeline dozens of times to get it right.
Thorough Documentation: The Codefresh team is very diligent with keeping documentation up-to-date. All of the documentation is available on GitHub and you can send them a PR should you find something that is out of sorts.
Custom Steps: I have 3 right now which have been extremely valuable in that I don't have to update 30 pipelines when I made a simple change to them. The custom steps support versioning too.
Pipeline Debugger: I love being able to add breakpoints to a pipeline! Extremely valuable when I'm writing a new pipeline. I don't have to run what I know is going to be a busted pipeline dozens of times to get it right.
Thorough Documentation: The Codefresh team is very diligent with keeping documentation up-to-date. All of the documentation is available on GitHub and you can send them a PR should you find something that is out of sorts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing: The current pricing for small, medium, large instances per concurrent build is a bit steep.
Support: can be a little hit or miss in regards to time to resolution
Limited macOS support: macOS builds have been in beta for 5 months, I signed up for the beta when it was announced and I'm still waiting
Support: can be a little hit or miss in regards to time to resolution
Limited macOS support: macOS builds have been in beta for 5 months, I signed up for the beta when it was announced and I'm still waiting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With the exception of our mobile application (due to not being accepted to the beta yet), all of our project pipelines are being executed in Codefresh. The integration with GitHub makes achieving the goals of "GitOps" relatively pain-free.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There's no good reason to not give it a try. The perceived high cost is ultimately worth it.
Intuitive and efficient
What do you like best about the product?
The pipelines are easy to write and are helping us a lot.
What do you dislike about the product?
As non-owner, sometimes are kind of hard to understanding how, where and when secrets are defined.
Also, another times, our heaviest builds takes a lot of time to finish.
Also, another times, our heaviest builds takes a lot of time to finish.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are build several images, testing and some deploys to, but we want to make more use on Codefresh.
Our pipelines are getting prettier and our test team are anxious to work with the automated environment.
Our deploy still messy, but Codefresh is helping us to get it straight.
Our pipelines are getting prettier and our test team are anxious to work with the automated environment.
Our deploy still messy, but Codefresh is helping us to get it straight.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a intuitive and efficient platform to begin with CI/CD, but this doesn't mean that complex workloads cannot be
Codefresh is the first CI/CD platform built for Kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to setup my Kubernetes pipeline on Codefresh
What do you dislike about the product?
The free version is limited. but other than that it's awesome!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The need of managing your docker images
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