The acquisition in part is to strengthen Octopus’ support for Kubernetes, according to the company’s announcement. 

“Octopus is thrilled to welcome Codefresh into the team,” said Paul Stovell, founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy, said in a statement. “We’re adding Codefresh’s considerable technology to empower software teams to deploy freely. It represents a big investment in open source and the Argo project that Codefresh maintains and scales with its enterprise offering.”

The integration of Codefresh into the Octopus platform will provide what the company called in its announcement “unparalleled benefits for software teams, including advanced CD, deployment automation, release orchestration, environment progression, observability and enterprise compliance across all workloads.” 

According to Octopus Deploy, the acquisition will make the company platform and technology the most comprehensive CD solution at scale, bringing CD, CI and GitOps into a unified software delivery pipeline platform.

“We are eager to bring the power of Codefresh’s Continuous Integration and cloud-native GitOps – based on Argo – to Octopus Deploy,” said Raziel Tabib, founder and CEO of

Codefresh, in the statement. “With Codefresh and Octopus, we will elevate the capabilities available to software teams and drive innovation in Continuous Delivery.”

Dan Garfield, co-founder and chief open source officer at Codefresh, said in a statement: “We’re thrilled to find a home in Octopus, where they believe in the community we’ve helped build around Argo and GitOps. We’re going to be able to invest even more in open source and continue to grow Argo and other open-source initiatives with our community partners.”

With the recent closure of Weaveworks, which defined GitOps and created Flux CD, that project and Argo CD remain the two leading open-source efforts for CD, Kubernetes and GitOps, where they are incubating at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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It is introducing a new environments dashboard to pull in information about GitOps and Argo CD projects. Codefresh defines an environment as a cluster of applications, namespaces in a single cluster, or namespaces in different clusters.

During a webinar demoing the new feature today, Kostis Kapelonis, senior developer advocate at Codefresh, explained that some of the negatives of using Argo CD alone are that it doesn’t have a concept of environments and doesn’t have context of applications, such as the fact that applications may be a part of a larger product.

This new dashboard provides a single-screen experience that shows environments from left to right, from development to testing to production. It offers developers the ability to define what applications a product contains and to assign products to an environment. 

Codefresh explained that having a single-screen environment means that developers won’t have to switch between multiple windows for the terminal, GitHub, and an IDE when managing environments or pushing applications to production. 

According to Kapelonis, the new environment manager also helps project managers better understand which features are in which environments. 

And in addition to providing a high level view of deployments, developers can also drill down deeper into specific applications with a timeline view that shows how applications have advanced through different environments, Kapelonis explained. 

“As businesses and DevOps teams grow, Argo CD instances split, and microservices multiply, managing the lifecycle of each application across environments becomes complex and arduous,” said Dan Garfield, co-founder and chief open-source officer at Codefresh. “The new Codefresh capabilities instill clarity and GitOps governance across hundreds of applications deploying to thousands of locations – with a unified, intuitive single-screen experience.”

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This new hosted offering works to provide Argo CD as a Service as well as introduces new DORA dashboards and integrations with multiple CI providers at no cost for small teams and community projects.

According to Codefresh, the hosted GitOps service is a simplistic way for users to get started with GitOps. Additionally, it is cost-effectively scalable for bigger teams that target multi-cluster, multi-application deployments.

Codefresh GitOps CD will also add new dashboards, including fully integrated DevOps Research and Assessment tracking that provides visibility across Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and Time to Restore Service easily filterable by project and team. 

For the first time, Codefresh has added first-class integrated support for external CI providers beginning with Jenkins and GitHub actions. 

This integration with existing CI pipelines allows teams onboarding to use Codefresh GitOps and immediately start gaining insights from the Universal Dashboard.

“GitOps is essential for achieving efficient, continuous delivery at any scale, and is revolutionizing the way teams deliver software,” said Raziel Tabib, co-founder and CEO of Codefresh. “Just as GitHub mainstreamed the adoption and consumption of Git, Codefresh is committed to helping users automate GitOps in a streamlined, fully-hosted experience. Whether in the cloud or on-premise, GitOps operational excellence is now – for the first time – accessible to all.”

For more information, or to sign up for a free trial, visit the website.

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“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 Raziel Tabib, the CEO and cofounder of Codefresh. “CSDP allows our customers to innovate more quickly and deploy software more frequently, reliably and confidently.”

CSDP offers detailed deployment insights and analytics across environments and deployments through a centralized UI. 

Other benefits include built-in pipeline speed optimizations, traceable image deployments, flexible resource sharing, and centrally managed versioning.

Customers also have access to stringent security governance that directs all communication from clusters through protected firewall connections and with “no need for ad hoc security permissions.”

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Currently, Codefresh Hub for Argo features a range of Codefresh’s most in-demand integrations and steps, with more to come as the marketplace continues to grow. Additionally, all contributors to Codefresh Hub for Argo are eligible for certification via a security auditing process that assures trusted templates and steps enabling enterprise grade reliability and efficiency for Argo workflows. 

Codefresh Hub for Argo is available now to Argo Workflow community users. 

Sentry acquires Specto

The application monitoring company Sentry today revealed that it has acquired Specto, a mobile profiling tool that provides developers with data and analytics around their app performance. This acquisition adds deeper context in mobile application monitoring.

With this acquisition, Specto’s team, including co-founder and former Facebook mobile engineers Jernej Strasner and Indragie Karunaratne, will join Sentry. To learn more, visit Sentry’s or Specto’s websites. 

Twilio unveils Twilio Ventures 

Twilio, the cloud communications platform, today announced the launch of Twilio Ventures as well as its new $50 million fund designed for the next generation of builders that are creating the future of user engagement. 

Twilio Ventures will mainly invest in early stage companies with opportunistic investments in late stage companies that focus on both user engagement and developers. In addition to investing, the venture program will provide portfolio organizations with continuous mentorship, potential product and go-to-market support, and exposure to Twilio’s leadership, partners, and customers.

Twilio Ventures has already completed investments this year. Beneficiaries include companies such as Algolia, Mux, Hyro, Calixa, Well Health Inc., and Terazo. To learn more about Twilio Ventures, visit here. 

Cloudflare acquires Zaraz

Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company, today announced that it has acquired Zaraz, an organization that has developed technology to accelerate and secure websites by reducing the impact of third-party marketing and analytics tools. This comes as Cloudflare’s first acquisition built on its own technology, Cloudflare Workers. 

With this acquisition, companies can run as many third-party tools as are needed, without slowing down their website, compromising their security, or sacrificing their users’ privacy. Zaraz utilizes Cloudflare Workers to replace the multiple network requests of each tool with one single request, shifting a web of extensions into a single application. 

“Using Workers meant that we were able to optimize Zaraz for performance and security, something traditional tag managers couldn’t do. We’re excited to join Cloudflare’s team so that we can make a difference across the entire Internet, making it faster, better, and safer for everyone,” said Yair Dovrat, co-founder and CEO of Zaraz.

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Codefresh Argo Platform was built for scale, security, and progressive delivery. The Platform eliminates horizontal scaling challenges when managing multiple dynamic microservices, while also implementing the most up to date GitOps best practices. Codefresh Argo Platform brings together Argo workflows, events, CD, and rollouts securely at scale. 

In addition, the platform allows users to bring their favorite tools for issues management, security, testing, artifact, config management, and more while maintaining a clear view of everything happening in the software delivery lifecycle.

42Crunch and Cisco partner to provide new API discovery tool

42Crunch today announced their collaboration with Cisco to provide the developer community with APIClarity, an API discovery and security tool that enables enterprises to strengthen their cloud protection.

APIClarity utilizes a service mesh framework to discover APIs and can be used with the 42Crunch API Audit capabilities in order to improve the configuration of the API specification. In addition, APIClarity alerts the user of differences between the approved API specification and the one observed in runtime and detects shadow and zombie APIs with a UI dashboard continuously checking the API findings. 

IBM and Deloitte announce new managed analytics solution 

IBM and Deloitte announced a new AI-enabled managed analytics solution, DAPPER. The offering provides end-to-end capabilities, allowing organizations to have confidence in the insights that their data provides.

DAPPER is run by Deloitte in the IBM Cloud and it provides users with a choice of service offerings and subscription model, containing three core elements that allow for obtaining the maximum value out of data. These elements are a cloud-enabled analytics platform, an analytics development factory, and a catalog of subscription service offerings. 

For more information, visit here. 

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GitOps is a software deployment model for cloud-native applications that has issues currently needing to be addressed, such as dealing with multiple environments, secrets, and observability. The goal of GitOps 2.0 is to “provide patterns and standards that improve software delivery and reliability.”

Codefresh will work with the community to define those patterns and standardize approaches to delivering software.

The company will offer tooling that provides a detailed view of everything released to a release, control over rollback, and larger aggregate views that make it easy to tell what’s going on across all applications. According to Codefresh, that visibility and control gives teams more confidence in release processes, leading to faster, more reliable deployments.

“The adoption of GitOps 2.0 isn’t an all or nothing endeavor. With this release we’re providing onramps for teams to adopt these practices as quickly as their org allows, and ultimately to support the ideal workflows,” said Dan Garfield, chief technology evangelist at Codefresh.

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Azure Functions provides an event-driven programming model and Dapr provides a set of essential cloud-native building blocks. 

“With this new extension, you can now bring both together for serverless and event-driven apps that can use the growing set of capabilities Dapr provides. Developers, teams, and organizations can use these tools to build functions that use a powerful set of capabilities with little code,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post.

Codefresh’s $27 million round of funding
Codefresh said it plans to use the funding to invest in open source and expand on continuous delivery to allow customers to complete DevOps automation from code to cloud. 

The company said it is also aiming to create enterprise-grade security with the new Codefresh Runner that helps organizations run Codefresh pipelines behind a firewall without having to manage a full on-premise solution. 

Additional details are available here.

Pega software hackathon winners
Pega announced the winners of the Pega Community Hackathon 2020 with the Best in Show award going to Angelo Mermiklis for his ‘V for Volunteer’ omni-channel application that connects employees with open volunteering opportunities in their organization. 

The Runner Up Award went to the srcLogic team for ‘Pyra,’ a web-app that enables employees to suggest and vote on new ideas that could impact change in their organization. 

“We were impressed with the level of participation, skill, and passion from our global developer community who used their time and talents for the greater good,” said Stephanie Louis, the senior director of community and developer programs at Pegasystems.

The full list of other awards is available here.

Red Hat collaborates with cnvrg.io on MLOps
The data science platform cnvrg.io is now part of the Red Hat OperatorHub as a certified platform to deliver AI lifecycle management, and simplified MLOps to enterprise DevOps and data science teams across industries.

“Together with cnvrg.io and Red Hat OpenShift, data scientists, IT and DevOps teams are empowered to better manage infrastructure in the hybrid cloud and accelerate the ML workflow in one automated and unified platform,” the company wrote in a post.

The integration with Red Hat, users will have access to managed Kubernetes deployment on any cloud or on-premises environment, fully automated installation and lifecycle management, and all the tools data scientists need for ML/AI development from research to deployment. 

Apache weekly roundup
Last week week saw the release of Apache Chart 3.0.0 and SkyWalking Python 0.1.0 with built-in libraries `http` and `urllib.request`, and support for third-party library `requests.’

Other updates included Apache Avro 1.10.0, Apache Storm 2.2.0, and Apache Kylin 3.1.0 in the Big Data space. 

The full list of new releases from Apache is available here.

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The new Projects section groups pipelines, secrets, and permissions into a single hub. In addition, the new Pipeline Creation Wizard handles webhook creation, and provides quick-start templates for Go, Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby on Rails, Scala and more.

“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.

SAFECode gets several new members
Accenture, Splunk and United Technologies joined Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) as new associate members, and Veracode rejoined.

SAFECode is a non-profit, global industry forum in which experts exchange ideas on promoting scalable and effective software security programs. Non-members can get free access to training videos and publications.

“The addition of these companies as SAFECode members is significant because they bring a deep expertise in secure software development and a broad industry perspective,” said Steve Lipner, the executive director of SAFECode.

CloudBees joins Automotive Grade Linux
CloudBees, provider of continuous pipelines, has joined the non-profit Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) to further the cross-industry effort to expedite software development for car makers.

“For car technology organizations, getting new software off the assembly line and onto the road faster matters, but a more rapid innovation cycle is not possible with lengthy builds and testing cycles,” said Anders Wallgren, vice president of technology strategy, CloudBees. “CloudBees is an engine to help these development and engineering teams create safer car technology, faster, by accelerating builds and optimizing tests, thus creating more time to iterate and experiment.”

The non-profit provides an open platform in which over 130 members can reuse and share open source code for automotive software. This reduces the development times and costs.

Talend announces advancements to Data Fabric
Talend, which specializes in cloud data integration and data integrity, announced support for OpenAPI specification (OAS) version 3.0 in its release of Talend Data Fabric this spring.

“Given the growth of APIs driven by microservices and digital initiatives, support for an environment that increases DevOps teams’ productivity while enabling collaboration with less technical API stakeholders becomes critically important,” said Jerome Louvel, vice president of product management at Talend.

The advancements provide full API development lifecycle support for building and maintaining APIs in an integrated environment.

The highlights for OAS 3.0 include data type composition and polymorphism, documentation of new security schemes, reusable API components as well as additional features and cloud enhancements listed in this company post.

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This year, Codefresh wants to get in on the phone with a month-long do-it-from-home DevOps hackathon: Fixvember. Fixvember aims to encourage developers to contribute to open-source projects and improve their DevOps skills by focusing on building automation, adding better testing and fixing bugs.

“DevOps has gone mainstream. DevOps engineers are now one of the highest paid types of engineers. By highlighting DevOps and its importance in the engineering process, we hope to expose more engineers to these ideas and best practices. DevOps engineers can bring their expertise to open source projects and collaborate with engineers at varying skill levels,” said Dan Garfield, chief technology evangelist for Codefresh.

According to Garfield, the company decided to launch Fixvember after last year’s Hacktoberfest. “We thought about all these new features people added that probably didn’t come with tests. So it started as a joke that November is when you ‘fix’ all the stuff you got in October,” he said.

‘The goal of Fixvember is to get people thinking about how they use DevOps best practices in all their repos. Unit tests, integration tests, security scanning, performance testing, fuzz testing, etc, etc,” the company wrote in a blog post announcing the event.

As part of Fixvember, Codefresh will be providing free accounts with 120 builds per month, a private Docker registry, a private Helm repository, unlimited users and unlimited repos.

“Anything you add to improve DevOps will continue to pay off with more reliable and easy to use processes. For many engineers this will be the first time they get a pipeline setup and they can add to it as time goes on,” said Garfield.

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