DevOps platform developer Codefresh Inc. today announced the public release of its flagship Codefresh Software Delivery Platform, which is designed to provide scalable enterprise-class DevOps automation for code delivery.

Codefresh’s platform is built on Argo, an open-source toolset for Kubernetes, to run development workflows and manage containers combined with software-defined GitOps deployments.

Using GitOps practices, DevOps teams manage infrastructure, application configurations and code using the version control system Git every time a change is made. All changes affecting a project would be reflected in the Git repository providing deep transparency across an entire project, which reduces the likelihood of show-stopping bugs being lost in mountains of submitted code.

Dan Garfield, co-founder and chief open source officer at Codefresh, told SiliconANGLE in an interview that the company turned to Argo because of its revolutionary approach to code deployment. He said bringing cohesion to that experience has proven critical to allowing DevOps teams to deploy more frequently.

“In the new platform, what we’ve done is built the Argo project into one platform, which is four tools — Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Events and Argo Rollouts – which operate independently and don’t integrate very much,” Garfield said. “By bringing all of these components into a single platform and providing insights in a single flow we were able to create something far more powerful than the sum of its parts.”

Using this new platform greatly simplifies managing software deployment workflows with the Argo platform using GitOps. Everything begins with a single command that is done completely within GitOps practices. When a DevOps team installs Codefresh, the install itself writes its own configuration into Git meaning that at all times Git is a single point of truth for all infrastructure, including Codefresh and all its integrations: both the command line interface and graphical user interface.

The Codefresh platform itself acts as a monitor for Git and an enforcement tool for GitOps. It makes certain that whenever a change happens anywhere in a project those changes are reflected in the code repository.

“You can actually think about these tools as additional interfaces for Git,” Garfield said. “It does both the Git commits and the infrastructure manipulation that’s needed in a single step. Most people do manual work and you hope that they document that in Git later. Sometimes they don’t and that can cause a lot of problems down the road.”

One critical takeaway of this practice enforcement for fast software deployment is creating confidence for DevOps teams. If a breaking change happens during a particular deployment, it makes it easier to discover an issue and fix it.

For example, if an issue happens, Codefresh’s dashboard can reveal every change that was made during the past hour — not just every code commit, but everything that actually changed in the infrastructure including configuration. That makes it much easier to discover what broke and fix it in a timely manner.

Garfield and Raziel Tabib, co-founder and chief executive of Codefresh, recently appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio (below), to speak about Argo and the power of GitOps with host John Furrier.

“Enterprise-class tooling for Argo – built on GitOps best practices – enables faster software delivery and smoother, scalable DevOps automation, and this is crucial to our customers’ business success as it gives them a clear competitive edge in the marketplace,” said Tabib.

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