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"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."

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"Tekton is serverless and runs on OpenShift, and we leverage Tekton to take full advantage of the Kubernetes features such as running and scaling the solution in PaaS.""Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively.""Tekton is an orchestrator. It provides seamless integration for our pipelines. It offers robust support for executing tasks within the pipeline, allowing us to set up and run pipelines quickly."

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"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."

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"There might be occasional issues with storage or cluster-level logging, which can affect production.""Configuring Tekton requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, which can be difficult for developers.""It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges."

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    Top Answer:When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very easy… more »
    Top Answer:Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively.
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    Overview

    Harness is the first Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform that uses Machine Learning to simplify the entire process of delivering code from artifact into production – quickly, safely, securely, and repeatably.

    Tekton is a powerful yet flexible Kubernetes-native open-source framework for creating continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems. It lets you build, test, and deploy across multiple cloud providers or on-premises systems by abstracting away the underlying implementation details.

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    Linedata, Openbank, Home Depot, Advanced
    The Home Depot, PayPal, Target, HSBC, McKesson, Oncology Venture
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    Financial Services Firm37%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Healthcare Company4%
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise78%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Harness is ranked 12th in Build Automation with 1 review while Tekton is ranked 3rd in Build Automation with 3 reviews. Harness is rated 7.0, while Tekton is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tekton writes "Provides seamless integration for pipelines, allowing easy setup and execution of tasks but working with YAML files in Tekton can be challenging to modify ". Harness is most compared with Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, GitHub Actions and GitLab, whereas Tekton is most compared with GitLab, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Jenkins and CircleCI.

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