TeamCity

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Every enterprise business uses this tool for maintaining their services enabled and establish the best business flow. All the services that are being build via Mule can be available via team city to be deployed.Its features include build history, user management and system maintenance. Build history has excellent feature of holding the various build version that are deployed earlier.Use service messages in your build scripts, interact via REST API, or create plugins for TeamCity using Open API. User Management has different ways of user authentication, and a log with all user actions for the transparency which can be used for tracking all activity on the server.Best feature is Version Control System(VCS) in which Team city in a single build it can take source code from different VCS Repositories.All the versions history is available environmental wise.

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The least of this software is there are some additional features required for the versions to avail across different enviroments like manual build configurations process can be avoided for the lower environments and UI part can be increased looking for new enhancements

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I am able to successfully manage over 600 projects in Teamcity in my environment. Updates are a breeze and downtime has been damn near zero in the five or six years I've used this product. The build configs are super flexible however I've not used another product so I'm not sure how my experience compares to the next.

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I'm not a huge fan of the experimental UI for some views but for other items I prefer it. I'm often switching back and forth between the two UIs

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Gründe für den Wechsel zu TeamCity

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Great UI and very easy to setup and manage. Great integration if you are already in the Jetbrains ecosystem

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More expensive than other industry alternatives like Jenkins

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The good thing i always like with the teamcity is its cross platform means we can configure agents of other OS types so it can build anything easily. It is Good integration with variosu different frameworks and it has various methodologies that can be used as a part of your application development and code dump. It also have an amazing feature of supporting the extension via plugin mechanism we can also integrate with other popular tools such as artifactory plugin or we can write our own. When ever a new build failed teamcity has a special feature of trouble shoot and provide us the root cause for the failure. It has a very user friendly interface which is very easy for the navigation and understanding the standard of each options in the panel. It is an opensource product and a happy news is startup are eligible for the 50% discount on the package

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There is nothing much least about this but there are few drawback like for a single person holding project teamcity is not right choice.Upgrading the teamcity is very lengthy process and consumes large amount of time. The logs that are being generated during the build process can be made much more beautiful with UI changes

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Highly customizable pipelines, supporting multiple build steps with intelligent links and flows between them. Integration with Azure and Octopus Deploy are easy.

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Integration with Azure could be deepened, as at the moment it is done via an ad in rather then being natively supported.

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We manage all build configurations, deployments triggers, automated tests triggers through Team City. It is the best tool, I have used till now. It allows you to clone projects, mute/investigate failing tests, pause triggers.

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You need some time to master the use of team city. There is a lot to learn if you are new to team city. But with time and practice, you are good to go.

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It's easy to use (for it specialists), it has clean and friendly interface, it's very customizable

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Have nothing to say about cons regarding this software

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It does its job, and once you've set it up it's pretty solid. Agents and server have never needed a reboot as far as I know, and upgrades are quick enough.

The integration with the VCS (SVN where I work) can let you keep track of what you have down the pipeline and, if you use the right tracking tool and add ticket numbers to the commit comments, you might find useful seeing what brought to that commit.

If you often create new projects, the template feature can enormously speed up the process.

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It's very very easy to screw up. It gives you quite enough rope to hang yourself and your whole team twice, like creating dependencies among builds so that a simple commit can make the agents run for hours, or other amenities where you're not really sure what's the code you're building from (or, you might even be sure, but wrong!)

If you're not well organized and don't know your way around the myriads of configurations, you may well end up not knowing what features you are deploying.

It really needs some serious study before using it in production, and since it's not something you configure everyday, it's not easy to keep trained. In this perspective, the template feature will make you forget what's going on.

Sadly, it's the only CI/CD tool I've ever used, so I can't compare it to anything else.

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Teamcity allows us to implement CI CD pipelines for PR validation, by ensuring sonar checks are complete and builds pass before a PR is allowed to be merged. It integrates well with our VCS, Stash (Bitbucket Cloud) to ensure a Teamcity flag is present and applied before a PR is merged.The process is reliable and consistent, and works for new repos and configurations as well

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The admin panel is cluttered and hard to move around, with confusing mnemonics for different validation jobs. Access granting is also unclear.One major pain point is that TC doesn't allow manual trigger of first PR build, and the process takes a lot of time, reducing efficiency.

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- Before using Teamcity, deployments took about 30 minutes and had to be performed during maintenance intervals. Now we can deploy to production servers during the day if necessary.
- Running tests can take a while, so it might be forgotten if someone has to do it manually. Teamcity automates this, so that we don't even have to think about running them again.

Nachteile

It's hard to say. Teamcity is really well polished, so I have very few and only minor suggestions. The only big downside to using TeamCity is that the initial setup takes a lot of time. But that's not not Teamcity's fault and the time is well invested.

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Configuration and ability to quickly set up new builds, nice integration into GitHub and other tools

Nachteile

Overly complex, I could never create a build without making a mistake, and having to go back and fix it up...
Always got something wrong, although I have used it for around 10 years.
Moved to Azure pipelines due to reduce cost, don't think it's any easier, but the build scripts are now in VersionControl

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For smaller teams with less than 100 build configurations it is free of charge. It provides either an UI or an own language (Kotlin) for configuring the build configurations. Also offers wide options for automatical cleanups, reducing the required time for administering the application to almost zero

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Some features, like artifacts path or filters offer their own filter syntax. I think it is pretty difficult to get into this syntax as the documentation could be better. But once your into it, it is very flexible and covers all requirements.

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Highly flexibly and configurable.. filled with a ton of functionality.. if you don't find a functionality, you will still have option to configure through custom scripts

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Learning curve can be annoying especially if you don't have support within your team. It takes time to master the tool

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Free for small configurations, enough to small teams. Fast and stable. Easy to configure and maintain.

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I guess the only drawback of this tool is that it runs on the JVM and thus requires a fair amount of memory resources.

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Dashboard is very easy to understand and logging is user friendly.

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Support team is not that great. Usually they respond in two weeks time which does not help at all.

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Once you get this powerful CI tool up and running, it will save your development massive amount of time. We have been using this for years, all set up to build, run unit tests and deploy to a staging server. Also, JetBrains generously lets you use it for free up to 3 build agents from the get go, so cost is not a concern here.

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The tool can be a bit complex and overwhelming to get started if you are new to the tool. If you overcome this hurdle, it will be worth your while.

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1. Easy to configure per instance CI /CD options.
2. Can integrate with various frameworks.
3. Easy integrations with TFS, GIT..etc.
4. Good user /role management

Nachteile

Nothing as such but one can face difficulties if need to use third-party tools.

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My phone is my laptop- my laptop is my desktop. My work computer is my personal computer. I can control any of my computers from anywhere. When my kids need me to enter the admin password, I just do it from my phone.

I've turned a dozen or more people on to it, because it's just that convenient.

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The only con I can think of is that it's enabled me to be even lazier than I used to be. Do I need to do something on the downstairs computer, but I'm upstairs? No problem, I just teamviewer in from upstairs. I've gained 15 lbs.

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It is easy to monitor and do analysis between builds and show the differences.

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Not really, every thing I needed in some way can be supported by the SW

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I'm familiar with it in regard to build and deployment pipeline. My current company uses it as well as my previous one. The UI seems quite intuitive, as I could modify existing pipeline quite easily. There are quite a lot of features (although I believe there are lots that I haven't explored yet).

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It's easy to update and configure. I like the git integration.

Nachteile

Active Directory integration could be made much easy.

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Teamcity is a small and powerfull continuos integration tool, I configured my first project in a good way reading the manuals, also it is easy to integrate with another development tools like TFS

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I think the cons is the agents that you can use with free edition, also de configurations that you can includo as i remember the maxium is 20