Buddy

"A must-have automation tool for the non-IT professional"

Kommentare: Overall my experience has been absolutely amazing. I have been able to deploy multiple technology stacks to multiple different environments, integrate PHP unit testing, check my applications' up-time, all while viewing everything in a single interface. Buddy has numerous 1st-party integrations to various platforms and tools to get you started very quickly. But what I have found invaluable is the tools that are made available for developers to create/customize their own integrations via cURL or SSH.

Vorteile: Buddy makes automation easy for developers who are not IT administrators. Unlike that of some of the other automation platforms, the available presets and hints that each pipeline comes with allows you to develop and customize your deployments and testing with very little learning curve. I would say that I love the user-interface and user-experience the most. The visual representations and animations make the tool feel more complete and polished than some of the competitors.

Nachteile: Unfortunately I would say that I like least is the cost. As both a full-time developer and a freelance developer, Buddy can provide services to developers of all disciplines. However as a freelance developer who sometimes has to work on a pretty strict budget, some of the entry-level pricing tiers can be a bit steep on a monthly basis.

"Silver bullet for automating CI/CD"

Kommentare: Love the tool definitely, Github Actions is getting there, but not even close yet. 100% recommended.

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

"Buddy Works"

Kommentare: It just works. With very little setup and maintenance the solution just works. Features are intuitive, controls are plenty, and the UI is beautiful. I started with the free self-hosted version, and have continued with both the cloud and self-hosted on various teams. The various price points are great for getting the entire Git workflow organized for your team.

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

"Best CI on Cloud platform."

Kommentare: Overall its a great tool to integrate CI and since everything is connected very well, it can do magic during the complex deployment process.

Vorteile: Its very easy to set it up and get it going. My favourite is the UI.

Nachteile: There is no proper documentation or training videos on this tool. Though its easy to setup some part of it, sometimes its really hard to find the help and configure something custom.

"Makes it ridiculously easy to build and maintain complex CI/CD pipelines"

Vorteile: The unique and intuitive way we can interact with it. It is a complete platform that's also very simple to use, so simple that setting up any new pipeline usually takes ten minutes tops. At our company, we use multiple Buddy actions, such as: File transferring (SFTP), performing Status Checks for CR, building and pushing Docker images, establishing containerized environment for tests and setting up K8s deployment images. And we are pretty happy with our overall experience with Buddy.

Nachteile: Price, maybe? IIRC, it's a little more expensive than alternatives but I think it's worth it in the end.