Buddy

Vorteile

Buddy has the most convenient CI/CD and deployment functionalities. It's web-UI based work flow builder really stands out and helps beginner mobile devs to easily use continuous integration.

Nachteile

Buddy's Pro plan doesn't really suffice for memory-hungry builds. Especially in android builds, I felt it's 3GB Ram for Pro plan isn't really close to what we need. Builds would usually fail due to memory issues, no matter how optimized the pipeline is

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I like Buddy for the ease of use when you are a budding developer looking to learn CI/CD practices.

Nachteile

If you're an entry to mid level developer, I feel there is an initial learning curve to learning CI/CD in general. The documentation is satisfactory but it would be improved if each section or sub-section had a "You should know this before reading" bit in the first part of the article. That way a self-taught learner can establish the connection between Buddy and the rest of their stack by understanding key elements that necessitate the use of Buddy or how they are best augmented by what Buddy can do.

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Vorteile

* very easy to use
* new pipeline config is very simple
* multiple integrations
* on-premise plan
* options for pipelines discribed in yaml files or we can just click it one after another
* after registration its ready to work

Nachteile

* complicated build are failing randomly (with multiple additional serwices) without logs - cannot investigate why. It occurs as on machine on 20G memory as also on 60G (guys are working on that)
* no integrations for output parsing (ex. junit is not parsed) only raw output
* limit of 4 additional services (ex. mysql) per pipeline action (I've already reached the limit and I need add some more services in near future)
* if using yaml config, its extremely easy to unintentionaly break pipeline for example having conflicts with merge on feature branch. Would be great if we could have an option for securing pipelines to read only from concrete branches (for ex. master and pipeline-dev),

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Vorteile

The feature of defining actions and customize the actions based on the requirement. Switching on and off of the actions of a pipeline. When error occurred, correcting the issues and continue to run the pipeline.Parameter action and custom actions help to achieve what we want. Integration with third party tools like ACR, Synk- etc

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Selecting only one code repo for a project.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

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Vorteile

- Very regular software updates, adding great new features all of the time
- Decent UI that allows us to do everything we need. YAML configuration available to those who don't want it
- Sensibly priced, self hosted option for those who want to keep it in-house
- Good integration with all of the tools we use and more

Nachteile

- We have to manually renew our LetsEncrypt SSL through the CLI tool on the server
- Hardware requirements can be a little high if using Docker, but that's more of a Docker problem than Buddy

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Vorteile

- The filesystem access to debug builds and their artifacts
- The Dockerized containers for each action that share the filesystem
- The many ready to go actions that can be added to any pipeline
- The ability to have multiple pipelines running on a given project
- The ability to tag and organize repositories into folders

Nachteile

- Requires a lot of memory for the self-hosted variant
- Inability to use slashes to group repositories under namespaces

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Vorteile

We used DeployBot for the longest time but we just had so many inexplicable issues and frustratingly timed downtime along with slow response times.

Buddy has wiped the floor on all of these points. It takes a much more user focussed approach to deployment, giving you all the bits and pieces needed to construct a deployment/build system exactly how you need it. The way DB dictated a build system to us previously worked OK for us, but with Buddy you can achieve the same approach and so much more (or less if needed) just by virtue of it giving you complete control over every step. If you wanted to you could use it for other kinds of automation based on repos, for example we have a repo used for running checks on a live Magento database where data issues are not entirely uncommon — this pipeline runs checks there and notifies us if it finds something wrong.

Love Buddy, and we'll never be looking back.

Nachteile

There are some minor edge case features I'd like to see, it doesn't tick every single possible box, but this is really so minor as whatever I'm referring to can be achieved somehow with thought.

Vorteile

The integrations is by far the best feature of Buddy. it connects you with literally everything, Amazon, Google, Github, Slack, etc, etc, etc On top of that it allows you to run literally anything in their cloud.

Nachteile

Not so much about the pricing structure, I'm paying $200 and it seems that I could get more

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Vorteile

Really customer focused, good and fast support, easy to use and its always improving fast with new features. It just wotks :)

Nachteile

It can be expensive if you need a lot of parallel jobs running. The support with the devs is not 24/7.

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Vorteile

It's easy to use and have a nice interface

Nachteile

I don't find any drawbacks for the time I used Buddy

Vorteile

Ease of setup and use is key to any service. Every other service that I have used pales in comparison in this aspect

Nachteile

Shared variable management can sometimes be tricky, especially when you have multiple pipelines.

Vorteile

Its simplicity in setting the whole environment

Nachteile

Nothing in particular, maybe the cost.

Vorteile

As the account owner, with no direct hands on development, I appreciated the costs were well within reason.

Nachteile

There are no features missing that I can see but I'm not the developer.

Vorteile

It is very easy to get started with, intuitive. No real need to familiarize yourself with how the tooling works. We could quickly get pipelines up and running to test with and didn't need to spend much tweaking and fixing the build process. Our first intuition on how we should set it up was spot on. We could very quickly move from the initial test to using it in production.

Because of the simple look and feel of the product it was very easy to get the whole company on board, in a company that wasn't used to using build systems. Getting people familiar with the product for day to day use was very easy to do.

The initial set-up of the on-premise variant was very straight forward because they use docker. We ran a couple of commands and had it up and running in no time. Figuring out back-ups took a little more time but the customer service was great and they have updated the docs since.

Nachteile

The only con I can come up with is the price. We need to use the on-premise/enterprise version and that one is quite expensive to start with and has a hefty mark-up when you pass one of the pricing stages. The price doubles when you go from 10 to 20 or 20 to 40 users which hurts a little when you are adding your 11th or 21th person to the team.

Vorteile

Buddy is really easy to set up and start using as a CI, CD or DevOps tool. I've tried other tools in the past to help on CD processes but I always had a hard time to get somewhere. With buddy I created the first pipeline in minutes and it helped me a lot, since I was the only one who was deploying applications in the company.

Nachteile

I love buddy :)
I don't remember any cons.

Vorteile

Buddy is fast, it's easy, it's advanced. Buddy enables us to deploy without lots of hassle. We work with git-flow and as soon as we push a release, Buddy is ready to deploy it. We really love the advanced deployment features

Nachteile

Buddy might be a bit overwhelming at first, after you learn the terms, where to setup a project, it will all be a walk in the park

Vorteile

Flexibility. We use it to deploy anything from web apps with Vue.js, server-side applications with Laravel, WordPress and Node without any issues.

Nachteile

Lack of documentation to set up automated tests. I'd like to run unit tests with Jest, so it would be great if there was clear examples on how to do so and fail a deploy on failed tests.

Vorteile

The obvious positives for us about Buddy are how simple it is to use and pick up. The interface is really nice and makes everything point and click set up. We also really like how easy it is to set up users and limit them to various projects or actions. We have really been able to empower our development team even to a junior level. Last the integrations with Slack and Github have enabled us to notify the whole team when a deployment fails or succeeds.

Nachteile

If Buddy is down for maintenance (this is extremely rare and also only for a few minutes usually) it can delay our deployments waiting for it to be back up. This isn't even a complaint really but more that it's the only small negative we can think of.

Vorteile

I love working in my terminal, but when the UX/UI of a product is as good as this, I love working in a GUI too. The UI is completely intuitive and very fun to use.

From a functionality point of view, the system is incredible. Being able to quickly spin up very complex builds & deployments, and then tie in all sorts of notifications is a dream come true. YML is fine, but being able to tie in all these steps with a visual pipeline editor/builder, is a treat and I thoroughly enjoy using it.

Nachteile

It's expensive. It's worth every penny, but its still a lot of pennies to pay every month for a small team / freelancer. There is a free plan, but you'll quickly hit the 120 builds per month limit.

Vorteile

The best thing about buddy is probably their customer support. The software itself doesn't require to much explanation, but when you do have a suggestion or piece of feedback it is handled with care.

Nachteile

The activity view per project could have a bit more filtering options and the sandbox option in projects is a bit to expensive for our use.

Vorteile

The UI is incredibly easy to use, and functions flawlessly.

Nachteile

A few additional integrations with other applications would be nice/ideal.

Vorteile

Its ease of use, comprehensive set of tools and features for automation, and strong focus on security. Its intuitive user interface and flexible pipeline configurations make it simple for teams to set up and manage their software development processes.

Nachteile

The pricing could be more affordable. Also I felt that front-end deployment takes longer - wish this could be improved.

Vorteile

Once you've configured your standard deployment patterns in yml format, you can simply check any new projects into your SCM and then tell Buddy to create a new project from it. From there, Buddy will pick up your predefined pipelines and GO!

AWS integration is a simple single set up for the entire org acc, no need to each user to have their own access keys stored in Buddy.

As we don't have a DevOps team at our company, deployments are taken care of by the teams. Buddy makes is easy to create, edit and manage these deployments.

Nachteile

The concurrency based pricing. I would prefer if pricing could be calculated based on actual resource usage as I assume all the build servers are most likely Fargate or scaled EC2 clusters.

In any case, being restricted on concurrency per subscription can be a little annoying, especially on deployment days where I may need to release 10 services simultaneously, but I can only do 2 at a time... each taking around 5 minutes for full blue/green deployment. This means it can take up to an hour to deploy 10 services, where as ideally I want them all deployed within 10 minutes.

Vorteile

The ability to set up a pipeline once and just know that it works is a beautiful feeling. When I have new code to push to a project, I push to GitHub and know the code is going to get where it needs to go.

Nachteile

I haven't found any downsides yet, but I'll let you know if I ever do :)

Vorteile

Buddy is elegant. It has the ability to do complicated things in simple intuitive ways. The combination of being able to hybrid YAML and GUI is a great example. You can use the intuitive GUI to quickly build out your pipelines and then bring it under source control with a couple of clicks. The GUI still works for read only making it easily accessible to less pipeline technical folks while also giving those maintaining the pipeline all the benefits of "as code".

Nachteile

The dedicated number of workers and price per work is a shame in a cloud world. Would be neat if it was just based on compute hours etc. but maybe with some kind of fair usage policy for concurrency

Vorteile

The Buddy interface is comfortable. Pipelines configuration is easy. You can customize pipelines in the UI or in YAML files.

Nachteile

Occasionally, there are problems with the cache, and I must run the pipeline one more time with cache clearing.

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Vorteile

Very intuitive UI/UX and the free account possibility

Nachteile

The pricing is very very very expensive. Pro plan is about €29 / month, even my VPS does not cost this price 😅

Vorteile

Buddy has a clean user interface which makes it easy to use. The builds are fast and notifications come quickly!

Nachteile

Honestly there's nothing I dislike about Buddy!

Vorteile

Buddy makes deployments a breeze! The UI is beautiful and intuitive, configurations are easy yet comprehensive, and deployments are incredibly fast. Customer support is responsive and helpful, making the overall experience seamless.

Nachteile

The pricing model being based on the number of users feels limiting, especially for smaller teams or businesses with fluctuating team sizes.

Vorteile

The large number of integrations. This is critical. It allows us to use just Buddy to manage everything.

Nachteile

We can always use more integrations. The more things Buddy adds to their ecosystem. The more products we can consider to improve our workflows.

Vorteile

It is one of the most powerful tools to help push code quickly, and can manage error checking when deploying an application

Nachteile

Sometimes, just sometimes it works a bit slow

Vorteile

Buddy is easy to use and works consistently. I set it and forget it across a wide variety of setups, apps and needs. It has always worked well. It is easy to use along with a wide feature and capability set.

Nachteile

I dont have any cons. I've used Buddy for years and *if* there is an issue that doesn't seem to be pipeline related or config related, I've been able to reach out to someone in customer service and have a resolution very quickly, along with insight about what happened.

Vorteile

Buddy made it incredibly easy to deploy our website.

Nachteile

Some of the frequent UI changes made the site difficult to navigate.

Vorteile

Once Click deployment and visibility of each step

Nachteile

I can't open github link directly from the buddy

Vorteile

Buddy works really well for our organization. The no-config pipelines make setting things up super easy and save us a ton of time. The platform has all the features we need for deployment and testing—it's got everything covered. Plus, it integrates seamlessly with AWS, which is exactly what we were looking for. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a quick and easy deployment suite.

Nachteile

Sometimes our development processes fail unexpectedly, likely a system layer problem beyond our access. Luckily, these issues tend to fix themselves after a while. The challenge is that when we need help from customer service, they're in a different time zone, making the problem-solving process slower.

Vorteile

I like the automation. It offers an easy interface that is easy to understand clearly. The most important thing is their support and they offer free plans too 😊

Nachteile

So far I didn't have any that could hit me tell any negative words

Vorteile

I like that the interface makes buddy really simple and easy to use as a user. It helps me manage new releases and bug fixes easily. Makes deployment to QA enviroments easy

Nachteile

There's no dark theme. Kinda long waiting times when there's a queue.

Vorteile

Amount of integrations with different products and simple to use

Nachteile

The price could be little bit lower for long term users

Vorteile

Facilité d'integration et de mise en place des pipeline de développement

Nachteile

Pas grand chose, tout est bien détaillé, l'information est facile à trouver et dès que j'ai eu a contacter le support j'ai de suite été pris en charge.

Vorteile

easy automatisation of pipelines and good overview

Nachteile

at the moment there is nothing that i would like to do better

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We use Buddy to test and deploy Wordpress applications with minimum effort. We've created a delivery pipelines with few actions and hook up our favorite 3rd-party services for our projects in less than 10 minutes.

Nachteile

None for now, we will see if something will pop up in near future but I doubt.

Vorteile

Good UX and it's very easy to use. We've tried various similar tools, but so far, BuddyWorks is the best.

Nachteile

The only drawback is that for some features, you need to have an advanced version

Vorteile

Buddy has been really easy to use and set up for a number of products.

Nachteile

The Documentation for some features could explain more or contain different versions. Some actions in the documentation don't match up with how it is used on the pipeline.

Vorteile

- Very easy to use and setup
- Lots of configurations and third party integrations
- Easy to read documentation

Nachteile

- Community for Buddy may be smaller compared to other popular CI/CD

Vorteile

Easy to use, simple, powerful and intuitive UX.

Nachteile

Documentation could be more in depth in some areas, it is a bit of a learning curve at first.

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Ease of use, easy integration and the easy pipeline

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Not found anything particularly until now

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The easy way we can set-up a pipeline to deploy products (api, smartphone apps, website)It take 10x less time than on other platforms

Nachteile

The price and the lack of visibility about account consumption

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Vorteile

One of the biggest advantages of Buddy is its ease of use. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to create and manage pipelines, even for users with no prior experience with CI/CD. Buddy also offers a wide range of pre-built actions and integrations, which can save teams a lot of time and effort.

Nachteile

A disadvantage of Buddy is that some features are only available on paid plans. For example, the ability to trigger pipelines from external sources, such as webhooks, is only available on paid plans.

Vorteile

It was very easy to connect Buddy to my GitHub projects as well as add additional instructions

Nachteile

The php debug modules were giving me errors and could not fix it. I try to get rid of php errors before I commit, but still it would be useful to make easy check before deploy.