Buddy Erfahrungen

Great tool fo CI/CD

Kommentare: This is a great choice for continuous integration and continuous delivery for small teams and developers.

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.

Just try it, you will love it!

Kommentare: I have used many DevOps platforms in business ranging from small startups to massive global companies and Buddy is my personal favorite. It is simply a nice product to use and you have far more "oh awesome" moments then "$@!?$" moments then with any other tools.

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

This is a toy that you can use for a hobby project

Kommentare: Absolutely avoid. Spent last year trying to make it work and now the cost of keeping it alive is just too big so swapping as we speak. Last response from support I had... oh wait, I didn't have any.

Vorteile:

WHEN it works, it has a few good features. It allows you to a basic CI/CD for a small projects, that's about it.

Nachteile:

There's about 2h a day their support works, you have to wait for hours to get any response. And once you do 99% of those responses are "not our fault, try removing all projects, all integrations and try again". On the top of that anything more complex that "hello world" runs out of their apparent 2CPU 2GB deployment server. Want more resources? Wait for 24h until dev team has this 2h of work somewhere in India.

Very intuitive interface but very expensive

Kommentare: For me, Buddy should create a specific Plan for the people who wants ONLY the continus deployment functionnality without any complexity, or just decrease the Pro plan price, if it becomes €5 per month I will switch all my projects on it, or maybe €2 per project per month?

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 😅

One of the easiest ways to build and learn CI/CD

Kommentare: I have realized the easy to use CI pipeline I've created to save a lot of time deploying my app to a production environment. I was first exposed to CI/CD in general through my role as a Web Developer and used Buddy as my first pipeline builder. The experience was so enlightening that I'm now using it in my personal project to deliver updates to my application in a sophisticated manner. This allows me to spend more time code and strategizing versus the rudimentary manual process I'm used to.

Vorteile:

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.

Buddy is easy to use and looks great!

Kommentare: Have used Buddy in several of my roles and would highly recommend it to teams.

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!

Effortless Deployments with a Beautiful UI

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.

Deployment Wizards

Vorteile:

Buddy made it incredibly easy to deploy our website.

Nachteile:

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

Highly recommend for CI/CD integrations

Vorteile:

Once Click deployment and visibility of each step

Nachteile:

I can't open github link directly from the buddy

Boost Your Deployment Efficiency with Buddy.Works

Kommentare: Buddy.Works is a game-changer for CI/CD enthusiasts. Its intuitive interface and powerful automation tools make setting up pipelines a breeze. With lightning-fast builds, seamless integrations, and top-notch customer support, Buddy.Works transforms complex workflows into a smooth, efficient process. Highly recommended for development teams aiming to streamline their deployment practices!

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

Easy to Use & Beautiful UI

Kommentare: Buddy is the easiest CI/CD solution I could find.

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.

Exceptionally easy to set up and go

Kommentare: Buddy has been so smooth and easy to set up and use. It is my go to tool for any new project I'm starting. I've even migrated a few that were running on other platforms for years

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.

I create pipelines easily

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

Easy to Use and setup CI/CD

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

Simple and intuitive

Vorteile:

Its simplicity in setting the whole environment

Nachteile:

Nothing in particular, maybe the cost.

Software that does what you expect it to

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.

Easy way to get a business up and running with a build tool

Kommentare: Since that the javascript world started almost requiring a build process to keep up to date with the language while supporting older browsers, our company struggled to integrate this in our daily work. So we started looking for build tools for a company that hasn't used any before and many developers who didn't really knew what it was. Buddy being so easy to use and set-up helped a lot in getting the whole dev team to be comfortable with this new way of working. It also fixed problems we had because in our previous deploy process we were unaware when a deploy failed and unable to recognize which servers were and weren't up to date. This caused all kinds of problems and even support questions for stuff that was already fixed, costing us extra time to figure out that something and what exactly went wrong.

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.

Buddy - The easiest CI/CD tool by far

Kommentare: Our development flow is fully automated with buddy. That helps the team a lot, and saved me tons of time, since it was done by me manually.
We also use it to deploy production applications, with easy.
Buddy is also used to deploy to firebase hosting. We have some use cases where we just need to serve a json with the project version, and this json is created used buddy pipelines, extracting the project version from the repository.

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.

Deployment is just a click away

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

Buddy review

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.

Easy to use, Empowers teams

Kommentare: As mentioned in our positives, our business use case was to simply set up deployments and build pipelines without the hassle whilst also empowering our team of developers and project managers. There are obviously ways to do this on the servers but the management of this requires a lot more work and knowledge of dev ops.

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.

Great deployment platform for all our needs

Vorteile:

With Buddy I was able to consolidate my deployment tools, and save money. The platform is super intuitive and more powerful than what we were using previously.

Nachteile:

A couple years ago my team uncovered a small issue with one of the deployment actions, but after working with Buddy's support team they resolved the problem!

Excellent!

Kommentare: Buddy has helped our team tremendously in making us able to collaborate on site development.

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

The simplest CI and Automation tool I ever experienced

Kommentare: Buddy was the first CI/CD tool that satisfied all of our needs while being extremely simple to use. It was easy to get up and running with our monorepo and custom triggers with webhooks. Buddy provided solid support for multiple programming languages, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and HTTP Endpoints. It is a joy to build pipelines with Buddy! 🚀

Vorteile:

It provides very intuitive workflows and actions that are customizable for all kinds of needs.

Nachteile:

You pay for a machine the whole month even if you aren't using it. I would prefer a serverless model like with Google Cloud Build or GitHub Actions, where you only pay for the minutes the machine is running.

The simplest and probably the most complete solution for deploying your projects to servers.

Kommentare: Great, Buddy has made it easy to build a complex deployment process that is version controlled and easy to manage in forked projects.

Vorteile:

A huge library of integrations, predefined build processes and actions yml. This platform is allowing us to slowly automate our entire development pipeline, testing through to deployment.

Nachteile:

The price point makes it hard to take the leap onto the platform, while it is without a doubt worth it, it was a barrier that put us off for some time. Also, the limit on concurrent deployments (which is tied to your pricing tier) means sometimes your project deployments can stack up. We manage a forked repository system where our client projects inherit updates from a central repository, this can mean a significant number of projects are all queued for deployment at one time and then nothing for days.