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