Nephio vs PipeCD
Nephio
nephio.org
PipeCD
pipecd.devSide by side
| Figure | Nephio | PipeCD |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · GitOps Tools | 7.3 (#26) | 8.5 (#8) |
| Automation | It lets users express high-level intent and automates infrastructure setup, initial network function configuration, and delivery of configurations to clusters. | PipeCD can automatically roll back after an analysis or pipeline-stage failure, detect configuration drift and trigger deployments from defined events. |
| Integrations | The site names Google Config Connector, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, and Azure Service Operator as pluggable infrastructure integration examples. | Analysis providers include Prometheus, Datadog and Stackdriver, while notifications can be sent to Slack or webhook endpoints. |
| Support | General inquiries can be submitted through the Nephio contact form, and code vulnerability reports have a dedicated email address. | The project directs users to documentation, GitHub issues and discussions, and the CNCF Slack #pipecd channel for help. |
Plans
In their own words
PipeCD
PipeCD is a self-hosted continuous delivery platform that coordinates deployments through Git pull requests. Its shared deployment interface supports Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS and other targets, while plugins let teams add custom applications or platforms. PipeCD says deployment setup needs a pipeline definition and application manifests, without changes to CRDs or application manifests. Built-in analysis assesses deployment impact with metrics, logs and emitted requests; the platform can roll back after analysis or pipeline-stage failures, detect configuration drift and launch deployments from defined events. Its UI presents deployment pipelines, per-deployment logs, live application state and delivery-performance insights. A centralized Control Plane works with piped agents that run deployments using plugin binaries. Security features include single sign-on and role-based access control, and credentials stay outside the Control Plane. PipeCD is open source under Apache 2.0 and costs nothing. For private Git repositories, piped needs a private SSH key and its corresponding public key added to the repository.