What is Harrow?
Harrow is a web-based platform for continuous integration and deployment built by the Capistrano team.
There are many continuous integration tools in the world already, Harrow is ours. It is designed to “feel” familiar to Capistrano users.
Although Harrow is designed to work well for Capistrano-style use-cases, it is by no means limited to only being used for Capistrano, or even for deployment.
Some of the features which make Harrow ideal for automating tools such as Capistrano:
- A discrete concept of scripts and environments, allowing reuse of scripts in different settings using different configurations
- A pure JSON-HAL API allowing integrations and tools
- Powerful triggers and notifications allowing the construction of pipelines starting with git changes
Harrow, much like Capistrano can also be used to:
- To automate common tasks in software teams
- To drive infrastructure provisioning tools such as chef-solo, Ansible or similar
Again, like Capistrano, Harrow is also very scriptable, and can be integrated with any other software to form part of a larger tool.
How To Use Harrow
- Sign up for a Harrow account
- Connect your Git repository using our setup wizard
- Choose “Capistrano” as the project template
What does it cost, and how does that affect Capistrano
Harrow has very reasonable pricing. As a comparison with other continuous integration tools, some of our customers have cut their monthly outgoing by a factor of 5 or more.
For individual users, it’s free to use forever. To work with collaborators in your projects, paid plans start at just $29/mo.
Capistrano is unaffected by Harrow. Capistrano will remain liberally licensed (currently MIT) and will include discrete hooks offering Harrow to users without being intrusive.
