Codefresh : Unleash Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As a DevOps engineer I use Codefresh as an Automation Tools. Business problem like lot of manual intervention, human error, delaying deliveries etc are we experiencing in our organization before Codefresh. With Codefresh Now we can so lve all these problems. The scope can be found from small to mid and from mid to large size organisation. which is totally depends on organisational needs and requirements.
Pros
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Development. we can setup jobs that automatically triggered when there is any changes in code and starts building up the build images automatically and then pushing images to Container Registry
- We can involve Version control system like github, bitbucket, gitlab etc for integration of Codefresh with our code stored in these Version control systems.
- On the failure of any jobs/pipeline Codefresh can also send Notification on our email.
Cons
- With Codefresh it's become hard to handle complex pipelines
- Need to focus more on Documentation part
- UI can be more attractive
- Security can be more increased
Most Important Features
- CI/CD
- Artifact manager
- Custom integration with third party tool
- Custom pipelines
Return on Investment
- Positive:
- As an Automation tools I must say it has reduced manual labour , reduced errors and improved quality of work.
- It easily get integrated with third party tools which increases ease ness in our work
- Negative:
- Although being a very good tools in CI/CD
- It requires improvement in UI, it's speed, security, optimization.
Alternatives Considered
Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub, Bamboo and AWS CodeDeploy
Other Software Used
Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab
