Buddy

Makes it ridiculously easy to build and maintain complex CI/CD pipelines

Avantages :

The unique and intuitive way we can interact with it. It is a complete platform that's also very simple to use, so simple that setting up any new pipeline usually takes ten minutes tops. At our company, we use multiple Buddy actions, such as: File transferring (SFTP), performing Status Checks for CR, building and pushing Docker images, establishing containerized environment for tests and setting up K8s deployment images. And we are pretty happy with our overall experience with Buddy.

Inconvénients :

Price, maybe? IIRC, it's a little more expensive than alternatives but I think it's worth it in the end.

Alternatives envisagées : CircleCI et Codefresh

A must-have automation tool for the non-IT professional

Commentaires : Overall my experience has been absolutely amazing. I have been able to deploy multiple technology stacks to multiple different environments, integrate PHP unit testing, check my applications' up-time, all while viewing everything in a single interface. Buddy has numerous 1st-party integrations to various platforms and tools to get you started very quickly. But what I have found invaluable is the tools that are made available for developers to create/customize their own integrations via cURL or SSH.

Avantages :

Buddy makes automation easy for developers who are not IT administrators. Unlike that of some of the other automation platforms, the available presets and hints that each pipeline comes with allows you to develop and customize your deployments and testing with very little learning curve. I would say that I love the user-interface and user-experience the most. The visual representations and animations make the tool feel more complete and polished than some of the competitors.

Inconvénients :

Unfortunately I would say that I like least is the cost. As both a full-time developer and a freelance developer, Buddy can provide services to developers of all disciplines. However as a freelance developer who sometimes has to work on a pretty strict budget, some of the entry-level pricing tiers can be a bit steep on a monthly basis.

Alternatives envisagées : Jenkins et Bitbucket

Pourquoi passer à Buddy : I chose Buddy because of their "slick interface" and their customer service. I have had a great relationship with their customer service who are prompt and very knowledgable of their craft.

Best CI on Cloud platform.

Commentaires : Overall its a great tool to integrate CI and since everything is connected very well, it can do magic during the complex deployment process.

Avantages :

Its very easy to set it up and get it going. My favourite is the UI.

Inconvénients :

There is no proper documentation or training videos on this tool. Though its easy to setup some part of it, sometimes its really hard to find the help and configure something custom.

Alternatives envisagées : Jenkins

Pourquoi passer à Buddy : Since its cloud based and very well presented UI. Easy to setup.

Buddy is the best deployment tool

Commentaires : I really love this product it makes my life easy.

Avantages :

I like a lot the easy way to configure projects and create pipelines to deploy my application in different environments.

Inconvénients :

I think they should create most documentation.

Alternatives envisagées : Jenkins

Pourquoi passer à Buddy : Usability and because it's a cloud based application and I don't need to worried about infrastructure management.

CI/CD made easy

Commentaires : People usually complain about paying for something they can make themselves. Buddy has freed up a lot of time for everyone in the organization by removing the technical skill and knowledge of Buddy configuration. The time saved is WORTH every penny!

Avantages :

The UX is so simple yet so powerful that anyone can create pipelines. Even our non-technical users understands the software and create pipelines to automate their needs from the code.

Inconvénients :

The cap of concurrent runs is set to 4 on self-hosted. Even though the wait time is pretty low, it's still annoying when we deploy large amount of microservices.

Alternatives envisagées : GitLab et Jenkins

Pourquoi choisir Buddy : I got tired of listening to people whine about their pipelines doesn't work like they wanted. To add new services I had to figure out what to do. Wasted a lot of time...

Logiciel antérieur : Jenkins

Pourquoi passer à Buddy : If Gitlab or Jenkins had such a nice UI/UX and customer service, I'd re-evaluate. As of now, Buddy is hands down one of the best service I've used money on.