CircleCI Erfahrungen

Good for CI/CD and also for automating smaller tasks

Kommentare: We use CircleCI for our CI/CD pipeline almost every single day. It manages and runs automated tests for all the remote branches, so we can catch issues before they escalate. When ever something gets merged into our dev, staging or master branches, it auto tests, builds and deploy all the infrastructure with Terraform and pushes the newer version to docker.

Vorteile:

The pipelines can be broken into different steps, which makes debugging, managing and approving individual phases way easier. Also, looking at the logs and being able to share static permalinks to them is quite useful when you have larger teams. We all can see the progress of the building pipelines in real time and can debug and manage them. Great tool over all.

Nachteile:

Sometimes it fails and doesn't immediately let's you go to debug the issue. Also, some settings for the VMs are tricky to set up right.

Simple & efficient CI

Kommentare: Migrations was easy and straightforward. It works well. We were a bit startled because of the security issue they faced and we had to renew all of the secrets which was painful. Apart from that incident, we're happy. It's never been down for us (as opposed to Github).

Vorteile:

The setup of pipelines is very easy, especially with the orbs. Each pipeline is always code, so it's automatically versioned. We moved away from CodePipelines from AWS because it was too click-intensive.

Nachteile:

The permissions are simple: everything is copied from GitHub in our case. What seems at first convenient ends up quite confusing. And it's easy to get lost with security contexts. It would have been nice to be able to see who can perform what action from the Circle CI UI itself.

Seamless Continuous Integration

Vorteile:

It's automation for testing and deployment is fantastic. It saved me a lot of time by running tests automatically after every code push.

Nachteile:

It took me a while to get my build scripts working correctly the first time.

Does the job, but lacking in features

Vorteile:

It's relatively simple to get started. I like that you can pick between Docker and VMs. It integrates with GitHub nicely.

Nachteile:

The Docker in Docker paradigm doesn't work for us since we use containers. We end up using VMs anyways. I think the configuration language is not that great to use and can quickly get unwieldy for larger CI workflows (especially when repeating jobs with different parameters). There are also outages at least once a quarter.

CircleCI - For Simple, Easy & feature rich CI/CD

Kommentare: Overall I love CircleCI UI, ease of deployment & it is feature rich. Availability & execution parameterization can be improved.

Vorteile:

Best part of circleCI is the ease of continuous delivery feature it offers, it's very easy to integrate it with GitHub too. Another pro of CircleCI over other CI/CD tool like Jenkins is the simple yet feature rich UI. For beginners or pros, this workflow management tool is pretty simple yet futuristic. It also makes running automated test cases for different branches really easy before deployment.

Nachteile:

There is room for improvement in areas where Jenkins is already winning, like skipping parts of execution stages that are not required every time new change is pushed. Another one would be the execution time, using it with terraform to run plans & eventually apply, it can take hours if your infrastructure is complex & there is no way to actually divide it in stages. Better central monitoring & dashboard for different projects can be helpful, somewhat like Jenkins shows rainy, cloudy or clear skies signifying project health.

Great once you're all set up

Vorteile:

- Easy to understand yaml config format - Integration with GitHub - Workflows for powerful deployment and release strategies - Good community support

Nachteile:

- I am not the biggest fan of the recent UI update. If the "expand" toggle is set to true, everything jumps resulting in me clicking things unintentionally. - Many of us have workflows that we do not use on every push (e.g. deploying to testing). With the next UI changes, the UI has a timer column which is always updating, why??? - Why can't I select a default project? When I now browse to circleci, I always have to select a project. Most developers only ever work on one project at a time, let us choose one!

One of the top CI/CD service

Vorteile:

With a Github/Bitbucket account, it is easy to setup the CircleCI account. It automatically detects all the repositories. We can easily add the configuration file and start using the pipelines. Various customisation and parallelisation options are provided. Lot of possibilities for automation and customisation. Overall a good product.

Nachteile:

It was bit of a hassle to start first, the configuration were not very easy. Also struggled a bit to manage various Github organisations. Once easy and setup, it's easy and fast.

Continuous Integration and Deployment made easy

Vorteile:

It's easy to integrate most of the industry products with CircleCI, including tools used for Quality and Security. You only need some level of programming to get through the integration process. It works well for our model and we do not need the full DevOps suite to use Circle CI

Nachteile:

There is nothing to dislike about this product.

Battle tested and well documented

Kommentare: Satisfied ;)

Vorteile:

One of the market leaders. You can bet it is going to be here for at least next few years and your one off implementation and deployment of this service will do for long time without ay significant change and it will serve you reliably.

Nachteile:

For some not_totaly_standartd deployments or integrations it is (as many similar products) a bit tricky. But thanks to the huge community you can find some solution for pretty much everything quite quickly.

Continuously improving over the years

Vorteile:

Responsive support, much faster builds now I can easily parallelize things with Workflows 2.0. Very easily integrated with GitHub and other code-quality services. Able to build in macOS if necessary.

Nachteile:

I would like the ability to specify resources available to a machine, fine to charge more for this feature. I would like to use Workflows 2.0 with macOS builds. It would also be great to be able to specify which docker images are cached on all executors, fine to charge more for this feature.

Great, easy to use CI tool

Kommentare: Overall it is great. It is fast, reliable, and easy to use. Just the tactics on how they handle customers are something that is lacking.

Vorteile:

It is so simple to set up, run, manage and maintain. It gives really fast feedback and is so versatile. This should be the standard way of doing automated pipelines.

Nachteile:

For some of the pretty common things, like iOS app builds the costs escalate very quickly. Also, their sales team is very aggressive in how they push for upgrades, to the point of removing key items being used in the pipelines to force upgrades.

Good product for our ci needs

Vorteile:

Easy to use and mac build system. Docker integration

Nachteile:

User system. Only github and sometimes that is a struggle

Easy continuous build and deployment system

Kommentare: We have automated unit testing, deployment and managing pipelines so no one has to do it manually.

Vorteile:

Easy to manage pipelines and deployment to multiple servers and to manage versions from GitHub. Easy to restart pipelines or particular deployments.

Nachteile:

New UI feels less intuitive than the old one, but does work well. Sometimes errors can be hard to track down, but think that may be our configuration / setup rather than CircleCI itself.

One of the best automated tools for a developer

Vorteile:

Circle CI is the best Continuous integration platform that I have ever used. It is fast and reliable, and it allows me to set up different tests for projects and have them run in an automated manner. The interface is clean and intuitive, which has made it a breeze to get started with and learn the ropes with this tool!

Nachteile:

It makes developer life so much easy. So it's 100% recommended . You will never regret of using it.

Using CircleCI

Kommentare: It has been a good experience overall, very minor downtimes. It has really helped me and our team to perform continious integration for our projects.

Vorteile:

It let's you automate continuos integration fairly easy by just using a YML file. You can setup many different stages and rules for these stages to have different development environments. It's fairly easy to learn and implement. It integrates very well with Github.

Nachteile:

Have seen a few downtimes in the last couple of months.

CircleCI enables continuous integration

Vorteile:

I like how easy it is to see failed tests and to re-run the test suite, if needed.

Nachteile:

I don't have any problems using CircleCI -- sometimes the test suites take a long time to run, but I think that has more to do with how robust our test suite is than anything to do with CircleCI.

This is the option to increased productivity

Kommentare: CircleCI has always been focused on productivity and simplicity without setting aside functionality and to me it works very well.

Vorteile:

CircleCI takes away the need to fiddle with infrastructure and lets teams focus strictly on CI and CD. It's enjoyable to use, and helps integrate with multiple technologies in order to keep everything efficiently connected.

Nachteile:

I think the only con is that it can get quite expensive fast, and when you need parallelism for tests then cost can get high quickly.

Good UI and easy to use build system

Vorteile:

Compared to some other build systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI has a much better, more modern UI. It's easy to do the most common tasks, such as check on a failed build, or restart a build.

Nachteile:

Some setup tasks involved in creating a build or modifying its configuration could be easier, but this was never a hindrance to me using the app.

My experience using Circle CI

Vorteile:

Awesome UI/UX. Excellent customer service support and ease of use. There is also a constant update on the product based on feedback which is not common with most products.

Nachteile:

The developer community of Circle CI is not so strong compared to some other product. The have taken feedback on this and are already improving it.

Excellent Service. A tool that can not be present on your stack.

Vorteile:

Fast, seamlessly, easy to implement. Well documented. Move from 1.0 to 2.0 was a piece of cake with a ton of improvements.

Nachteile:

We are still fighting to get docker-compose to support cache but we know how hard is to enable caching on docker layers.

Very Good

Vorteile:

CircleCI is a very good tool that comes with a very nice UI. In addition it is pretty intuitive to use.

Nachteile:

Maybe the free plan could be enhanced for young start-ups as they often try to cut costs everywhere.

Circle CI is the most comprehensive CI/CD tool I have used

Kommentare: I am very excited to use Circle CI because of how quick the build process is compared to other CI/CD tools like travis

Vorteile:

Circle CI offers so much control over how to test, build and deploy code. Workflows make it easy to automate CI/CD jobs in workflows organized in clearly defined steps that trigger concurrently or depend one job to trigger before another can be executed. I love how the interface offers a graphical user interface that clearly shows the different stages or steps the build process goes through and follow to whichever job is failing the build

Nachteile:

The configuration can take time to set up with some config files growing up to about 200 lines of code. But fortunately circle ci offers a way to reduce repeating code while using aliases and executors

A good CI, except if you target iOS

Kommentare: Have tried CircleCI a candidate for our CI system. Had to give up on it because of our iOS applications

Vorteile:

CircleCI is a easy to use solution for building and deploying your projects. It support concurrency and has unlimited build time in most plans

Nachteile:

If you need to build on MacOS, you'll need to pay a high price and get limited build time. This makes the solution less desirable than its competitors.

Very good CI/CD tools

Kommentare: I'm on free plan of CircleCI and the software is very useful.

Vorteile:

I use the free version and it is very good software. You can download CircleCI to your local machine by using docker and then run the test on local before committing your code.

Nachteile:

Documentation needs a bit of work. So far so good, but needs more explanation about how to set it up on a certain framework

Continuous Integration done right

Vorteile:

Robust, easy to use, great documentation, great feature set even on a free plan with sizable 1,500 build minutes per month (quite a lot for smaller projects).

Nachteile:

As you grow, cost rises quite rapidly as well, especially if you require multiple containers run in parallel.