Buddy

Avantages

Facilité d'integration et de mise en place des pipeline de développement

Inconvénients

Pas grand chose, tout est bien détaillé, l'information est facile à trouver et dès que j'ai eu a contacter le support j'ai de suite été pris en charge.

Avantages

Very intuitive UI/UX and the free account possibility

Inconvénients

The pricing is very very very expensive. Pro plan is about €29 / month, even my VPS does not cost this price 😅

Avantages

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 😊

Inconvénients

So far I didn't have any that could hit me tell any negative words

Avantages

easy automatisation of pipelines and good overview

Inconvénients

at the moment there is nothing that i would like to do better

Avantages

Good UX and it's very easy to use. We've tried various similar tools, but so far, BuddyWorks is the best.

Inconvénients

The only drawback is that for some features, you need to have an advanced version

Avantages

Ease of use, easy integration and the easy pipeline

Inconvénients

Not found anything particularly until now

Alternatives envisagées 

GitHub

Pourquoi passer à Buddy

Recommended by other people

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

It was very easy to connect Buddy to my GitHub projects as well as add additional instructions

Inconvénients

The php debug modules were giving me errors and could not fix it. I try to get rid of php errors before I commit, but still it would be useful to make easy check before deploy.

Avantages

Buddy introduces a very easy to use GUI, rather than composing the YAML file manually. I really like how you can see the progress through the steps, when running a pipeline. This also is worth its weight in gold when it comes to debugging a step or process.

Inconvénients

I do feel like the paid plans could be more flexible, maybe add the ability to mix add-ons to plans. For example, adding more projects to a plan or more minutes to allowance. I am pretty frugal and don't like to pay for something if I don't have to. However this is definately worth the investment.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jenkins

Pourquoi passer à 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.

Avantages

I read about Buddy somewhere and since it's free for small businesses, I thought I'd give it a try. So I set up automatic build and deployment (never did that before), the interface was super easy to use and after a day I was ready to use Buddy in production. After that I never had to deploy anything manually, I just push the changes to GitHub and I know that in a few minutes it will be live on production. Awesome!

Inconvénients

Even if there was something to dislike, the support staff would help you solve it.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

The free version is perfect to start a development & project environment and paid plans are reasonable.

Inconvénients

Better GitHub connections to show which person pushed the last code to trigger the pipeline.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Alternatives envisagées 

Jenkins

Pourquoi choisir Buddy 

User-friendly implementation

Logiciel antérieur 

TeamCity

Avantages

I like the ease of use. It's very easy to do what most would consider quite complicated actions. Deployments made absolutely seamless.

Inconvénients

I have yet to experience any cons with this software.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

Buddy saved me countless hours of server work by allowing something simple: deploy a Github repository to a server, via FTP.

Simple but I have spent hours researching about quick solutions for this until I found Buddy, and it works! The interface is beautiful and simple and in a few clicks you can deploy your Github repositories without much further do, few clicks and you are done. No more FTP cowboy coding for our team.

i have used the simplest of their deployment scenarios but I am sure the tool can do much more.

Inconvénients

Maybe the cost is a bit prohibitive if you are a freelancer or small agency. And maybe it's no widely use enough but I didn't really find extensive documentation or tutorials for the tool. Looking forward for more.

Avantages

Buddy's UI is the most intuitive of any CI/CD tool that I've tried. It's simple to set up new projects and pipelines without needing to add a configuration file. Sharing projects is straightforward as well. I have personal experience with Jenkins, Semaphore, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, DeployBot, and DeployHQ (and perhaps others); Buddy is the best by far.

Inconvénients

Their paid tiers are pretty expensive, but their free tier is quite generous and has met my needs so far. I haven't tried it, but apparently you can spin up a Buddy droplet on Digital Ocean for $5 per month, which is a great option.

Avantages

I enjoy the easy to use interface when setting up actions. I also enjoy how easy it intergrates with shopify

Inconvénients

Sometimes saving settings are a bit buggy.

Avantages

The ease of use and the one-button deployment.

Inconvénients

I don't really have any, to be honest. Using the app is a breeze.

Avantages

One of the main reasons for switching over to Buddy from other tools was the UI and the powerful customisation it offers

Inconvénients

Some of the setup of repeat tasks can be a bit laborious, but it is a minor criticism.

Avantages

I liked the graphical user interface and how easy it was to set up new actions in a pipeline or even re-deploy a previous commit.

Inconvénients

There were a few things I didn't like to begin with but I can't remember them at the moment.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

Buddy looks really stylish, easy to use, and quite impressive, I highly recommend it.

Inconvénients

It works fine, but it gets annoying when I need to edit my settings or change some settings.