Buddy

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

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Travis CI und GitLab

Warum Buddy gewählt wurde

Price and the self-hosted version.

Zuvor genutzte Software

Travis CI

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Buddy

Better UI, simpler setup, self-hosted version, price.

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

CircleCI

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Buddy

With ideia of pipelines and actions we can reuse some CI configurations for all the projects making it easier to maintain.

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

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

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

Buddy.works is a comprehensive and user-friendly software that offers a wide range of features for continuous delivery, pipeline management, and continuous development. One of the things I liked most about the software is its ability to automate the delivery process, making it easy to deploy updates and new features to users. The pipeline management feature is also very impactful, allowing users to easily create and manage multiple pipelines, streamlining the development process. The software is also very easy to use, with a user-friendly interface and a comprehensive set of tools for continuous development. Additionally, integration with existing business processes was a breeze, thanks to the software's robust integration capabilities with a wide range of third-party tools and services.

Nachteile

As a user of Buddy.works, I found that one of the cons of the software is the lack of flexibility in customizing the pipeline management feature. While it's easy to create and manage multiple pipelines, I would have liked more options for customizing and adapting the pipelines to my specific needs. Additionally, I found that the user interface can be a bit overwhelming at times, with multiple menus and options that can be difficult to navigate. I also felt that some features, such as configuration management, could be improved to provide more detailed and granular control. However, despite these cons, I found that integration with my existing business processes was relatively easy and the software provided a comprehensive set of tools for continuous development.

Vorteile

The interface is very intuitive and easy to use. With a few clicks you can create a deployment pipeline easily.

There is a lot of built-in actions that connect with many services. Even if when we can't find what we need, its integration with Docker Hub is really helpful so we can setup our own custom Docker image.

As it works on docker, it is easy to install and manage.

Nachteile

User administration is sometimes confusing. When there are new users, they may not be able to access some old projects even if they have been added to the group that have access to this project and must be authorized individually.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Jenkins

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Buddy

Easy to install and configure, it allows us to deploy several projects with different technologies. Its intuitive interface makes administration easy and allows anyone to manage the deployment of an app. Their support is attentive and responds quickly to our problems. I recommend this product to anyone who wants an effective CD/CI solution without headaches.

Vorteile

ease of use, efficiency, accessibility, and design.

Nachteile

learning curve, there are still some features that I am discovering through use - would be nice to have courses on quickly setting up all the applications of Buddy

Vorteile

We love the ease of use. We have tried many other CI systems and found Buddy to be the easiest and best for our front-end flow. We absolutely LOVE sandboxes, we find the most value in them. We constantly have the maximum number running for all projects to allow business and QA teams to view.

Nachteile

There are some gotchas and things that could be improved. Making it easier to duplicate workflows across projects, for example. Sandboxes are still in beta and could use some of the same improvements. Making it easier to define a default setup for sandboxes, and the ability to allocate lower memory to allow running more smaller sandboxes at once.

Vorteile

Buddy makes it easy to setup different pipelines for your staging and production servers. There are a large selection of pipeline actions available - integrations and tools to fit everyone's workflow. The Buddy interface is easy to navigate and the team has evidently put a lot of care into their product.

Nachteile

I can't think of any big cons off the top of my head. Maybe one thing is that the pricing can be kinda steep, especially if you're a really small team or a freelancer.

Vorteile

This service is a beast, from the way you start configuring your pipeline from an existing repository and all the available actions to the fully specified real-time log of the executed actions, the ability to clone existing pipelines and the analytics provided and the possibility to rollback

Nachteile

The only thing that we didn't like was the quantity of projects that you can have in the free version but that doesn't justify the overall quality of the service

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Jenkins

Warum Buddy gewählt wurde

User-friendly implementation

Zuvor genutzte Software

TeamCity

Vorteile

Ease of use! If you're not into writing configuration code, Buddy has an excellent GUI setup that guides you through deployment setups.

Nachteile

Transfering repositories from GUI setup to a .yaml setup can be a hassle if buddy doesn't pick up the new buddy.yaml file. I'm probably doing something wrong though.

Vorteile

We love the stability it has provided as well as consistently deploying our code, both compiled and 'raw' to all of our services.

Nachteile

We've occasionally had glitches in deployment, but these were rectified very quickly and communicated to us by the team at Buddy.

Vorteile

Buddy.works has made our deployment process a lot faster and easier.

Nachteile

Would like a way to group projects together.

Vorteile

One of the key parts I like the most is the ability to duplicate actions from one pipeline and move them over to another one, which was key in reducing the time to deploy for some of our earlier automation flows.

Nachteile

The handling of environment variables - have had to resort to particularly strenuous workarounds for us to have our environment variables shared between pipelines, actions and projects.

Vorteile

That it seems like it was fairly easy for the admin to set up and get us running test instance deployments on. It has not gone down to my knowledge and we were having issues with that on our old deployment manager.

Nachteile

The admin is trying to set it up so that we can use our tags/branch names instead of having to know the commit hash. Pretty sure it would be possible, but that is not as easy to use.
Also the first time using it, the "Run Now" button made it appear as though I was starting the deploy, but I wasn't sure where it was going to.

Vorteile

The setup was straight and configuring actions and webhooks was pretty straight forward

Nachteile

I am still looking for an easy of auto deploying to like digitalocean or Azure from buddy

Vorteile

Ease of use, intuitive UI and easy to start with.

Nachteile

No support to run actions on multiple server but this makes sense.

Vorteile

- simple
- intuitive
- great ui
- features are delivered all the time

Nachteile

- down times
- slow response on customer support

Vorteile

It's easy to set up logical flows which also are to read and understand in the UI.

Nachteile

Nothing special to be honest. seems to support most stuff.

Vorteile

One of the most advantages of this software is usability and user experience. It's really easy to use and when I started to work with this tool for the first time, I could use that without any problem.

Nachteile

I'm not using this tool too often, but so far I think it exactly what I thought and can't tell any special thing for this question.

Vorteile

The simpleness of the system. So it is very nice to work with

Nachteile

Integration with DigitalOcean, we use a lof of servers overthere

Vorteile

It was very intuitive for a newbie like me into the DevOps world. I worked with several IT companies and never really had experience with DevOps as we have a dedicated team for that so quite surprised that doing implementations was easy with Buddy.

Nachteile

Uploading a profile photo is not working. Non-essential though.

Vorteile

It's easy to comprehend what is running and why. The overall number and quality of integrations allows for basically any automation to come to live.

Nachteile

The design of the web interface is obviously subject to personal taste but I would at least prefer an optional darker theme.