Codefresh platform deployment

Platform deployment options

Codefresh GitOps is a lightweight SaaS platform dedicated to GitOps for Argo CD users. It provides the essential tools to simplify, standardize, and enhance creation, management, deployments for Argo CD applications.

Focused exclusively on GitOps, Codefresh GitOps empowers organizations to work seamlessly with Argo CD while leveraging the unique capabilities offered by Codefresh GitOps. As a SaaS offering, GitOps eliminates the complexity of infrastructure management, enabling users to quickly adopt GitOps best practices without compromising security.

SaaS platform architecture

The diagram shows the high-level architecture of the SaaS platform and its core components.

Platform architecture: Codefresh SaaS deployment

Control Plane

The Codefresh Control Plane is the SaaS component in the platform. External to the enterprise firewall, the Control Plane does not communicate directly with the Codefresh Runtimes, Codefresh Clients, or the customer’s organizational systems. The Codefresh Runtimes and the Codefresh Clients communicate with the Codefresh Control Plane to retrieve the required information.

GitOps Runtime

The GitOps Runtime is installed on a Kubernetes cluster, and houses the enterprise distribution of the Codefresh Application Proxy and the Argo Project.
The GitOps Runtime is installed in hybrid mode within the customer environment.

Read more on GitOps Runtime and GitOps Runtime Architecture.

Managed Clusters

Managed clusters are external clusters added to provisioned GitOps Runtimes. You can deploy applications to the clusters without having to install Argo CD on the clusters in order to do so. Read more in Managed clusters in Runtimes.

Codefresh Clients

Codefresh UI

The Codefresh UI provides an intuitive web interface to create, run, and manage Argo CD applications.

The global (Home) dashboard consolidates unified, enterprise-wide insights for Argo CD applications.
For in-depth analysis, the UI has several additional dashboards, each dedicated to distinct aspects of Argo CD application functionality and performance. For example, you have our unique Products and Environments dashboards to track and promote Argo CD applications.

Install GitOps Runtime with existing Argo CD
Install GitOps Runtime with new Argo CD