Codefresh Platform by Octopus Deploy
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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.
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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