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  • Codefresh Launches World’s First CI/CD Live Debugger to Make DevOps Suck Less

    Codefresh will demonstrate its new debugger and other exciting features at Kubecon, November 18 – 21 in Booth #S58

    Mountain View, CA, November 12, 2019 – Creating CI/CD pipelines is often considered a frustrating and time-consuming process. Each change has to be saved, committed and the pipeline rerun from the beginning. DevOps engineers are missing a key component that has been available for software developers for years: debugging breakpoints, so Codefresh is introducing the world’s first live CI/CD debugging tool to take the suck out of DevOps.

    The Codefresh pipeline debugger works similar to an integrated development environment (IDE) debugger. Developers can place breakpoints on one or more pipeline steps and once the pipeline hits one of them, it will pause and a debugging window will open. Users can then test commands, explore the state of the pipeline, and identify required changes.

    “The initial feedback from our users piloting live debugging has been very positive. They love how much faster and easier the CI/CD pipeline creation process is when engineers are able to test, troubleshoot, and fix their pipelines with this new tool,” said Raziel Tabib, Founder and CEO of Codefresh.

    Live debugging will be rolling out to all Codefresh customers on a Pro plan or higher in the coming weeks.

    WHERE:       Kubecon, San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA, November 18 – 21

    WHO:           Codefresh, the first and only continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) platform designed for Kubernetes, will be at Booth #S58

    WHAT:         Tabib will be available to discuss the CI/CD debugging tool as well as other features, including a new filter view on the Builds tab, providing one global view that shows build projects for all projects across an organization, and a project-based view from the setting inside an individual project. In addition, Codefresh now offers native integration with DigitalOcean, the cloud for developing modern apps, making support deployment to the DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster possible.

    At Kubecon, Codefresh will also be hosting a Cloud Native CI/CD Summit with Microsoft on Monday, November 18 from 12 noon – 6 p.m. on the historic Berkeley Ferryboat at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. “KuBEERnetes.” Happy hour starts at 5 p.m. during which Codefresh will make major announcements that impact the open source community.

    Codefresh’s CI/CD platform provides automation for building, testing and deploying modern applications using Kubernetes, serverless and more. Development teams often see 24x faster engineering cycles when using Codefresh. The company recently announced 340% YoY growth.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After launch in 2017, Codefresh has gained tens of thousands of users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.

     

     

  • Codefresh Revenue Grew 340% Year Over Year

    Codefresh surging on cloud-native migration tsunami

    Mountain View, CA, September 25, 2019 – Codefresh is on a steep growth curve, with a 340% increase in revenue over last year. An industry-wide sprint to cloud/hybrid-cloud, powered by cloud-native technology like Kubernetes, is driving dev teams to abandon legacy CI/CD for a modern automation platform. The first Kubernetes-native CI/CD, Codefresh has also doubled employees and expanded its global footprint over the past year. 

    With recent updates, Codefresh improved platform performance 20x. Codefresh is running millions of workflows and users are pushing hundreds of thousands of images equaling more than 200 Terabytes, not including on-prem customers using their own Docker registry providers.

    Much of the growth can be attributed to teams leaving legacy CI/CD tools like Jenkins. Teams moving to Codefresh can automate more of the CI/CD process, eliminate management headaches, and create scalable pipelines over their legacy counterparts. Increasingly, they choose Codefresh for its integrations into serverless, Kubernetes, and other microservices deployment environments.

    And there’s room for more growth as Codefresh’s recent survey, taken by hundreds of software engineers, operations managers, C-level executives, security engineers, DevOps engineers/administrators, software engineering managers, QA engineers, and software architects, indicated a plurality of engineering teams have automated less than 10% of the process from Git commit to code running in production. And every single respondent said automation was a major reason they don’t deploy faster.

    “Businesses are putting much more pressure on engineering teams to deliver software faster. In order to deliver on that promise, they have to adopt cloud, microservices, and automation,” said Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist for Codefresh. “As a result, customers are migrating to our Codefresh CI/CD platform because we have a great user experience and a simple migration path to faster development cycles.”

    Codefresh’s CI/CD platform provides automation for building, testing and deploying modern applications using Kubernetes, serverless and more. Development teams often see 24x faster engineering cycles when using Codefresh.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After launch in 2017, Codefresh has gained tens of thousands of users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.

  • Codefresh’s More Robust, Open Source Marketplace Makes Coding Easier, Faster, More Secure

    SAN FRANCISCO (JENKINS WORLD), August 13, 2019 – Codefresh has dramatically improved its open source marketplace with features that underscore the company’s commitment to removing barriers to faster code deployment, saving developers frustration, time, and money. The news was announced at Jenkins World, where Codefresh is exhibiting from August 13 – 15 in San Francisco at Moscone West, Booth #1031.

    First deployed in December 2018, the Codefresh Marketplace makes it easier for code developers to find commands without having to learn a proprietary API – every step, browsable in the pipeline builder, is a simple Docker image. The Marketplace contains a more robust set of pipeline steps provided both by Codefresh and partners, such as Blue-Green and Canary deployment steps for Kubernetes, Aqua security scanning, and Helm package and deployment.  All plugins are open source and users can contribute to the collection by creating a new plugin.

    Additional new functionality includes the ability to create private steps for a specific team, a new section for items maintained by Codefresh, and automatic scanning and security checking of Marketplace additions.

    “Our steps Marketplace provides building blocks for your pipelines. It is very easy to search for a keyword and see if there is a step for that method,” said Dan Garfield, Chief Technology Evangelist for Codefresh. “We look forward to communities adding more plugins as the adoption of Docker within companies skyrockets and the benefits of Docker-based tooling become more clear.”

    The Marketplace can be found at https://steps.codefresh.io/. To learn more about Codefresh, view What is Codefresh that explains the ease of use to get code into production faster without the need to reinvent the wheel.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After GA in 2017, Codefresh has gained tens of thousands of users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Viola Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.

  • Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go

    Survey Finds CI/CD Adoption Has Long Way to Go

    At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Codefresh published the results of a survey of 130 developers that finds not only are nearly a third (32%) not using any type of continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform at all, but 60% said their organization has yet to take full advantage of automation to accelerate application development and deployment.

    In fact, according to the survey, it takes more than two weeks for two-thirds of developers (64%) to push a commit into a production environment. Additionally, the survey finds that for 39% of respondents, less than 10% of their company’s processes are automated from Git commit to code to production.

    Not surprisingly, only 19% of developers said they deploy code at least once daily. Roughly a third said they release code into a production environment only once a quarter. At that rate, it may be difficult for those organizations to justify investments in a CI/CD platform.

    Dan Garfield, chief technology evangelist for Codefresh, which develops a CI/CD platform, said that while much progress still need to be made in terms of spurring adoption of CI/CD platforms and best DevOps practices, the shift toward microservices-based applications inevitably will force the issue. The inherent complexity associated with building and maintaining applications consisting of hundreds of microservices based on containers, which regularly are ripped and replaced, will require all development teams to adopt a CI/CD platform. Right now, however, the shift to microservices is even less nascent than DevOps—21% of survey respondents said they are not employing cloud-native architectures because they are overwhelmed by the prospect.

    Garfield said once organizations more aggressively embrace microservices to increase the rate at which applications are developed and deployed, Codefresh is betting most will opt to standardize on a CI/CD platform based on Kubernetes. Most organizations have come to realize they will be building and deploying applications across multiple clouds. A CI/CD platform based on Kubernetes, such as the one offered by Codefresh, enables organizations to consistently apply the same set of best DevOps practices, he said Garfield. As such, competition among vendors that provide CI/CD platforms based on Kubernetes is sure to be fierce in the months ahead.

    In the meantime, a 10-year effort to convince organizations to employ best DevOps practices more broadly appears finally to be on the cusp of becoming mainstream. Organizations of all sizes have embraced DevOps unevenly. In fact, while most organizations have been able to achieve continuous integration with a handful of development teams, very few organizations are anywhere near close to achieving continuous delivery of application code within a production environment.

    The shift to modern applications based on containers, however, will require most organizations to standardize on a set of best practices across the enterprise. Pressure to deliver applications faster in the age of digital business transformation is mounting with each passing day. The only unknown at this point is to what degree will organizations be able to automate those processes.

    — Mike Vizard

  • New Codefresh Features Streamline CI/CD Tool Adoption, Dramatically Decrease Onboarding Time

    Dramatically Decrease Onboarding Time

    Simplified UI includes wizards and improved automation to help software developers get code to production quicker than ever before

    Mountain View, Calif., May 1, 2019 – Developers: If the manual process of bringing your code to production causes frustration and leads to expensive delays, Codefresh now has a brand new user interface and a richly upgraded set of capabilities that makes code changes easier and faster than ever before. The powerful new May upgrade to Codefresh’s automated continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools focuses on helping developers adopt CI/CD with fewer bottlenecks, ensuring a faster time to deployment. The company’s Developer Evangelist Kostis Kapelonis details what’s new in a blog post, Create Codefresh pipelines with new project grouping, enhanced editor and ready-to-use templates.

    Teams using Codefresh, the first CI/CD platform designed for Kubernetes, containers, Serverless, etc., typically see up to 24x faster development cycles. Now, Codefresh has made onboarding new projects even easier.

    In a soon to be released survey by Codefresh, 32 percent of developers reported they don’t have CI/CD or the right kind of automation tools to help them deploy more often, making it challenging to take advantage of cloud-native technologies. Codefresh’s May launch solves that with the following upgrades:

    Project Focused

    The new Projects section allows developers to group pipelines, secrets, and permissions into a simple to manage hub. Beyond a robust security model, Projects are perfect for every style of connected code repository, whether using monorepo on GitHub, config repo on GitLab, multiple repos on Azure code, pull request triggers on Bitbucket, or some combination.

    Pipeline Creation Wizard

    The biggest challenge facing developers trying to automate CI/CD and DevOps tasks comes from creating continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. Codefresh’s new Pipeline Creation Wizard simplifies the process, handling webhook creation, and providing quick start templates for Go, Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby on Rails, Scala, and more.

    Plugin Contributions

    Codefresh plugins are simple Docker images. Steps for Codefresh are easier to create because there’s no special API to learn, a model that eliminates the traditional problem of plugin conflict and gives developers more flexibility when choosing which versions of tools to use in pipelines they create.

    “The expectation to bring more code to production, faster, has never been higher. At the same time, it’s never been easier for developers to let CI/CD tools do the heavy lifting,” said Dan Garfield, Codefresh’s Chief Technology Evangelist. “There is no reason to wait, worry, or endure the burden of creating useful CI/CD pipelines.”

    A webinar about the updates will take place Wednesday, May 1 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. Register at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4015562048344/WN_6UV31I2TTXWqgSgyY06KQw.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After GA in 2017, Codefresh has gained tens of thousands of users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Viola Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.

  • Codefresh Removes Barriers to Helm Ecosystem by Launching Integration with Microsoft Azure

    Codefresh exposes and makes easier what Helm is really designed for

    Mountain View, CA, November 13, 2018 — Codefresh today announced integration with Microsoft Azure hosted Helm Repositories, an important step in making it incredibly efficient for teams to adopt Helm by removing the barriers to the Helm ecosystem.

    As the Helm ecosystem grows, Codefresh is leading the way with Microsoft making it easier to build, test, and deploy Helm Charts with an easy-to-use Codefresh GUI, and store them in the Azure Container Registry. This is valuable for teams using Kubernetes as users can package Kubernetes applications with the charts and the images they reference together.

    The Codefresh integration with Azure offers:

    • Login with Azure to add repositories to Codefresh; no additional authentication configuration required
    • Consume and push Charts from Codefresh
    • Manage Chart deployments in all connected Kubernetes clusters
    • Geo-replicate charts across multiple regions, using the Azure Container Registry Geo-replication

    Dan Garfield, Codefresh’s Chief Technology Evangelist, said, “Codefresh exposes and makes a lot easier the pattern that Helm is really designed for, which is to make your application, package it, store it, and then consume it.  That way, you have disaster recovery built in because you can always roll back.”

    As the first Kubernetes-native Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform, Codefresh helps developers instantly build, test, and deploy to Kubernetes, and gather feedback on apps, resulting in up to 24-times faster development times.

    “As CNCF is focused on fostering innovation within the cloud native ecosystem, we’re thrilled to see members like Codefresh and Microsoft Azure working to support the needs of such a fast-moving community,” said Dan Kohn, executive director of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), incubator of Helm.

    Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research analyst and cloud computing and open source expert, added, “By providing a managed Helm repository, Codefresh helps Helm to fulfill the high and much anticipated market expectations of the package manager as a key component in the mass adoption of microservices. This buy-in from Codefresh and Microsoft legitimizes Helm, meaning more enterprises will take full advantage of all Kubernetes has to offer – to speed development, improve security, and easily update and manage applications – and ultimately reduce time to market.”

    “Helm Chart Repositories are a natural and obvious addition to Azure Container Registry as we see more and more customers moving into production needing a means to deploy a collection of images and configurations. Being able to geo-replicate Helm Charts alongside their referenced images using common authentication streamlines chart deployments. We continue to be impressed by the focus and experiences Codefresh brings to container native development, and the creative and customer focused team,” Steve Lasker, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Container Registries.

    Details about the integration for Azure Helm Repositories can be found in Codefresh’s new blog, “Codefresh adds native integration for Azure Helm Repositories.” In addition, Codefresh is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, November 28 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, Updating Kubernetes With Helm Charts: Build, Test, Deploy with Codefresh and Azure hosted by Microsoft Azure’s Lasker and Codefresh’s Garfield.

    About Codefresh, Inc.
    Founded in 2014, Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD. After GA in 2017, Codefresh has already gained over 20,000 users. Unlike legacy solutions, Codefresh pipelines are uniquely designed for cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Codefresh is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and backed by world-class investors: M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Viola Ventures, Hillsven, CEIIF, UpWest Labs and Streamlined Ventures. Learn more about Codefresh at https://codefresh.io/. Follow on LinkedIn and Twitter at @codefresh.