Steady deployment automation platform supplier Octopus Deploy introduced right this moment that it’s buying Codefresh, which produces a contemporary CI/CD platform with GitOps and is a maintainer of the Argo open-source supply challenge. Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.

The acquisition partly is to strengthen Octopus’ assist for Kubernetes, in accordance with the corporate’s announcement. 

“Octopus is thrilled to welcome Codefresh into the crew,” mentioned Paul Stovell, founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy, mentioned in a press release. “We’re including Codefresh’s appreciable expertise to empower software program groups to deploy freely. It represents a giant funding in open supply and the Argo challenge that Codefresh maintains and scales with its enterprise providing.”

The combination of Codefresh into the Octopus platform will present what the corporate known as in its announcement “unparalleled advantages for software program groups, together with superior CD, deployment automation, launch orchestration, setting development, observability and enterprise compliance throughout all workloads.” 

Based on Octopus Deploy, the acquisition will make the corporate platform and expertise probably the most complete CD answer at scale, bringing CD, CI and GitOps right into a unified software program supply pipeline platform.

“We’re desirous to carry the facility of Codefresh’s Steady Integration and cloud-native GitOps – primarily based on Argo – to Octopus Deploy,” mentioned Raziel Tabib, founder and CEO of

Codefresh, within the assertion. “With Codefresh and Octopus, we are going to elevate the capabilities out there to software program groups and drive innovation in Steady Supply.”

Dan Garfield, co-founder and chief open supply officer at Codefresh, mentioned in a press release: “We’re thrilled to discover a residence in Octopus, the place they imagine locally we’ve helped construct round Argo and GitOps. We’re going to have the ability to make investments much more in open supply and proceed to develop Argo and different open-source initiatives with our neighborhood companions.”

With the latest closure of Weaveworks, which outlined GitOps and created Flux CD, that challenge and Argo CD stay the 2 main open-source efforts for CD, Kubernetes and GitOps, the place they’re incubating on the Cloud Native Computing Basis.