# Codefresh Reviews **Vendor:** Octopus Deploy **Category:** [Continuous Delivery Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-delivery-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 70 ## About Codefresh Codefresh is the GitOps platform for reliably shipping changes fast, making it easy to promote software changes securely. With Codefresh GitOps Cloud, DevOps teams and developers can easily create promotion flows by connecting multiple existing Argo CD instances to a single control plane—no additional software needed. Plug into your existing Argo instances - Codefresh can plug into your existing Argo instances to make it easy to model continuous deployment across any number of namespaces, Argo instances, clusters, or applications. Streamlined deployments across environments - Set up automated promotion flows in a few clicks and govern how promotions happen by adding testing and environment policies. You get fast, reliable, and secure deployments, built-in GitOps best practices, and total control over your workflows even as you deploy across multiple Kubernetes clusters or Argo CD instances. Unified user interface - Codefresh provides unrivaled visibility into your GitOps workflows. It provides a unified Argo experience that correlates your build events, test suites, project management systems, deployments, and other key integrations into powerful dashboards. Centralized control plane - Manage all of your Argo runtimes across multiple clusters, regions, and networks from a single control plane. It provides detailed dashboards on maintenance, runtime performance, and much more while greatly simplifying the administrative work to maintain availability and security at scale. ## Codefresh Reviews ### 1. Codefreah as a CI/CD deployment tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Codefresh has helped our organisation centralize the entire deployment pipeline, from build to test to deploy to maintenance. Before Codefresh, we needed different UI representations and backend tools for Admins and Developers for the entire release pipeline, this problem has been eliminated by Codefreah. And even more importantly, it is cheaper than the preious tool we used. In today's agile way of working, we needed something which could be easy to integrate and implement considering the high frequency of use, which is fulfilled by Codefreah **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** There definitely are some drawbacks which I think can be worked upon by their dev and business team, but no dealbreakers in my opinion. For instance, the public support documentation is somethiing that can be improved. We also noticed some cost upticks when we started migrating some of our more complex projects to Codefresh. Also, when it comes to mission critical projects, the fact that they only have. email support is not reassuring. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Codefresh has helped us centralize our Release pipeline 2. We have been able to unify our build, test, deploy and maintenance tools into codefresh, reducing complexity and cost. 3. tzhe use of gitOps along with codefresh has significantly reduced developer overhead wrt releases. 4. the proxy logs and config log viewer along with app logs has helped us a lot in debugging during Canary ffailures ### 2. Ready to use CI/CD with UI experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Codefresh is the best way to centralize visualization and control of your CI/CD in a SaaS solution without losing sight of security. Your argoCD and pipeline instances can be on premise or integrated in codefresh plateform. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** the product could be more mature specifically on these on-premises deployment methods. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Codefresh centralize in one tools your CI/CD control and visualization. ### 3. Revolutionizing and making CI/CD effortless with codefresh **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh S. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Codefresh has a clean and intuitive interface that makes it easy for developers to use. Codefresh integrates with various popular tools such as GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, and others, making it easy for developers to use the tools they are already familiar with. Codefresh provides a platform for automating the build, test, and deployment of applications. This makes it easier for developers to focus on code development and not worry about the deployment process. Codefresh is built to handle large and complex projects and can scale its infrastructure as needed to support growing teams and applications. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Codefresh can be more expensive than other CI/CD tools, depending on the size and complexity of the project. Codefresh only provides email support, which can be slow and unsatisfactory for users who need immediate assistance. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Codefresh provides automated testing capabilities to ensure the quality and stability of code before deployment. Codefresh offers real-time monitoring and reporting capabilities to help developers identify and resolve issues quickly. Codefresh allows developers to customize the pipeline according to their specific needs. They can add new stages, modify existing ones, and configure the environment as required. Codefresh has robust security features, such as encryption and access controls, to protect sensitive data and intellectual property. ### 4. Best gitops integrated product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** Codefresh is one platform works better for both CI and CD. We use hosted gitops platform which helps us to eliminate the complex Argo setup and maintenance. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Documentation need to improve and self help sections should be more detailed during usage of the product. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Codefresh solves our faster application delivery to customers and detailed tracking and alerting system helps engineer to resolve the problems quickly. ### 5. Empowering DevOps And Accelerating Build and Deployment with Codefresh **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Malvika R. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** 1. Intuitive UI/UX for better developer experience 2. Automated build and deployment pipelines 3. Support for multiple programming languages and tools 4. Integrated with Kubernetes for easy cluster management 5. Flexibility to run pipelines in different environments (e.g. cloud, on-premises) **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** 1. Complex setup process for new users 2. Limited support for specific technologies 3. Higher cost for advanced features 4. It may require additional tools and services to utilise all features fully 5. It can be overwhelming for smaller projects **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Robust and scalable infrastructure for big projects 2. Good integration with other tools and services 3. Powerful security features for secure deployments 4. Good customer support and community resources 5. Faster and more reliable builds and deployments 6. Better control and security of the development process ### 6. Codefresh CICD capabilities **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** OCI artifact registry support is great, as it allows for pushing helm charts. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Public API are poorly documented. Support for utilizing native docker compose API is limited. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** CICD automation. ### 7. Best and Awesome tool for CI/CD : Codefresh **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ryan d. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** I liked how they configure CI/CD so we can deploy the applications easily. It reduced the almost manual efforts so we can minimize so we get that benefits from the deployment of applications. And also they conduct some events we get to know more about new things about other features. It is user friendly UI and we trace everything from the application of deployments. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** Codefresh allows my teams to spin up on-demand compositions to run unit and integration tests as part of the continuous integration process. And for the service cost need to be reduced and customer cares support needs to improve. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves almost all problems related to deploying our application and once the application is up and running we can able to track the health of the application easily and able to capture the logs also. If the application is down we get to know by triggering what Codefresh provided. It has a workflow we can plan our plans accordingly. ### 8. Best CI/CD Deployment tool : Codefresh **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil H. | Junior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** When I was joining as a software engineer in IT field,really had to worry about git how they use as CI/CD , how the merge will happen and so on and how this will play a major role in deploying software applications.I get know about this software by one of my friend and it really helpful to me by one click button we get to know how can we integrate with our software to other and also we can able to see which of the software was up and down by just click of a button and also able to deploy the applications so easily.In mobile smart phone also we can able to monitor our application. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** -Need to major focus on price somewhat I think paying more than others provides. -Need a qucik support from codefresh team when we stuck ,really this need to improve. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** -I am working as software developer i have no idea how VM and also environment how need to configure so inorder to deploy our application, by the help of this software provide from codefresh we can deploy the application easily and able to monitor log easily. -As a developer sometimes we can see where the problem is occurring is from the application or the environment, we can check easily. ### 9. Codefresh : Best CI/CD tool for beginners **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhyan r. | DevOps Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** .Codefresh UI is user-friendly and this website very easily integrates with third parties like git and Jenkins. It is the best website for those who are working on CI/CD(Continuous Integration and continuous deployments). And they provide workflow template where we can do minimal change as per our requirement and easily deploy the applications. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** There is nothing to dislike about it but the cost needs to be reduced and customer care support needs to improve. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has ready-made solutions for daily CI/CD activities, we can deploy the application easily and able to see whether it is up and down and it has abilities to track each activity, so as for a developer if anything goes wrong we can debug easily because logs are traced by Codefresh. For delivery pipelines we can visualize it with the help of a graph provide by codefresh. ### 10. User Friendly and easy to learn **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tharun Y. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Codefresh?** User Interface, Ability to integrate secrets, and other third party tools easily. **What do you dislike about Codefresh?** User Interface hangs sometimes and it only works if you open it in other tab but not if you refresh the same tab. **What problems is Codefresh solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to spend around 30-40mins for our deployments previously with our previous CI/CD tool and now it takes only 10-15 mins for all of our micro services to build. ## Codefresh Discussions - [How can we speed up a heavy build?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/24173-how-can-we-speed-up-a-heavy-build) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is Codefresh open source?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-codefresh-open-source) - 1 comment - [Is Codefresh free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-codefresh-free) - 1 comment ## Codefresh Features **Administration** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Dashboards **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Bug Reporting** - User Reports & Feedback - Tester Reports & Feedback - Team Reports & Comments **Management** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Orchestration **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Functionality** - Deployment Automation - Process Analytics - Plugins - APIs / Integrations - Feature Flags **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Bug Monitoring** - Analytics - Bug History - Data Retention **Functionality** - Automation - Integrations - Extensibility **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Processes** - Pipelines - Orchestration - Workflow Visualization **Processes** - Pipeline Control - Workflow Visualization - Continuous Deployment **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Bug Tracking** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Codefresh Alternatives - [CircleCI](https://www.g2.com/products/circleci/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (498 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (862 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (538 reviews)