Codefresh freshens produce at the Kubernetes code marketplace

Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD technology, with CI denoting Continuous Integration and CD denoting Continuous Delivery, obviously.

The organisation has this month worked to improve its open source marketplace with features that focus on faster code deployment.

First deployed in December 2018, the Codefresh Marketplace [kind of like an app store] allows developers to find commands without having to learn a proprietary API — this is because every step, which is browsable in the pipeline builder, is a simple Docker image.

The Marketplace contains a more 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.

As Octopus Deploy reminds us here, “Canary deployments are a pattern for rolling out releases to a subset of users or servers. The idea is to first deploy the change to a small subset of servers, test it, and then roll the change out to the rest of the servers. The canary deployment serves as an early warning indicator with less impact on downtime: if the canary deployment fails, the rest of the servers aren’t impacted.”

Blue-Green deployment (as defined by Cloud Foundry here) is a technique that reduces downtime and risk by running two identical production environments, one called Blue and one called Green.

“At any time, only one of the environments is live, with the live environment serving all production traffic. For this example, Blue is currently live and Green is idle,” notes Cloud Foundry at the above link.