Buddy

Avantages

The ability to set up a pipeline once and just know that it works is a beautiful feeling. When I have new code to push to a project, I push to GitHub and know the code is going to get where it needs to go.

Inconvénients

I haven't found any downsides yet, but I'll let you know if I ever do :)

Avantages

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".

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

The Buddy interface is comfortable. Pipelines configuration is easy. You can customize pipelines in the UI or in YAML files.

Inconvénients

Occasionally, there are problems with the cache, and I must run the pipeline one more time with cache clearing.

Alternatives envisagées 

GitLab

Pourquoi choisir Buddy 

Bamboo was outdated and I was using Buddy already on my private projects.

Pourquoi passer à Buddy

Easy of use, simple and clean user interface.

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

Buddy has a clean user interface which makes it easy to use. The builds are fast and notifications come quickly!

Inconvénients

Honestly there's nothing I dislike about Buddy!

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

The pricing model being based on the number of users feels limiting, especially for smaller teams or businesses with fluctuating team sizes.

Avantages

Buddy is easy to use and works consistently. I set it and forget it across a wide variety of setups, apps and needs. It has always worked well. It is easy to use along with a wide feature and capability set.

Inconvénients

I dont have any cons. I've used Buddy for years and *if* there is an issue that doesn't seem to be pipeline related or config related, I've been able to reach out to someone in customer service and have a resolution very quickly, along with insight about what happened.

Avantages

Buddy made it incredibly easy to deploy our website.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

It is one of the most powerful tools to help push code quickly, and can manage error checking when deploying an application

Inconvénients

Sometimes, just sometimes it works a bit slow

Avantages

Buddy works really well for our organization. The no-config pipelines make setting things up super easy and save us a ton of time. The platform has all the features we need for deployment and testing—it's got everything covered. Plus, it integrates seamlessly with AWS, which is exactly what we were looking for. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a quick and easy deployment suite.

Inconvénients

Sometimes our development processes fail unexpectedly, likely a system layer problem beyond our access. Luckily, these issues tend to fix themselves after a while. The challenge is that when we need help from customer service, they're in a different time zone, making the problem-solving process slower.

Avantages

The large number of integrations. This is critical. It allows us to use just Buddy to manage everything.

Inconvénients

We can always use more integrations. The more things Buddy adds to their ecosystem. The more products we can consider to improve our workflows.

Avantages

Once Click deployment and visibility of each step

Inconvénients

I can't open github link directly from the buddy

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

I like that the interface makes buddy really simple and easy to use as a user. It helps me manage new releases and bug fixes easily. Makes deployment to QA enviroments easy

Inconvénients

There's no dark theme. Kinda long waiting times when there's a queue.

Avantages

Amount of integrations with different products and simple to use

Inconvénients

The price could be little bit lower for long term users

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

Buddy has been really easy to use and set up for a number of products.

Inconvénients

The Documentation for some features could explain more or contain different versions. Some actions in the documentation don't match up with how it is used on the pipeline.

Avantages

We use Buddy to test and deploy Wordpress applications with minimum effort. We've created a delivery pipelines with few actions and hook up our favorite 3rd-party services for our projects in less than 10 minutes.

Inconvénients

None for now, we will see if something will pop up in near future but I doubt.

Avantages

- Very easy to use and setup
- Lots of configurations and third party integrations
- Easy to read documentation

Inconvénients

- Community for Buddy may be smaller compared to other popular CI/CD

Avantages

Easy to use, simple, powerful and intuitive UX.

Inconvénients

Documentation could be more in depth in some areas, it is a bit of a learning curve at first.

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

One of the biggest advantages of Buddy is its ease of use. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to create and manage pipelines, even for users with no prior experience with CI/CD. Buddy also offers a wide range of pre-built actions and integrations, which can save teams a lot of time and effort.

Inconvénients

A disadvantage of Buddy is that some features are only available on paid plans. For example, the ability to trigger pipelines from external sources, such as webhooks, is only available on paid plans.

Avantages

The easy way we can set-up a pipeline to deploy products (api, smartphone apps, website)It take 10x less time than on other platforms

Inconvénients

The price and the lack of visibility about account consumption

Alternatives envisagées 

GitHub et CircleCI

Pourquoi passer à Buddy

More easy to set up

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 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.

Inconvénients

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.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jenkins

Pourquoi passer à Buddy

I chose Buddy because of their "slick interface" and their customer service. I have had a great relationship with their customer service who are prompt and very knowledgable of their craft.

Avantages

Buddy offers an advanced automation experience with a basic knowledge requirement.

Thanks to its multiple integrations you can get great automations with just a few clicks.

You can create multiple pipelines to manage all the necessary processes to run your application.

Upload files to multiple servers, compile applications, send notifications, etc.

Undoubtedly Buddy is a very interesting tool to save time without having to develop large and complicated manual integrations.

Inconvénients

If your pipeline does things that need a long execution time, Buddy can give a timeout and leave the task halfway.

Avantages

I love that it's easy to set up our pipelines, but it's also easy to understand how the pipelines are set up so teaching my colleagues on how to use this has been just as simple.

Inconvénients

None at this moment, there are times when you wish an action were available but the ones I was thinking about have already been implemented.

Avantages

It's so easy to get the on premise install running. It really takes minutes to get the software configured.

Building the deployment flow, aka pipeline is very intuitive. The UI will even give you hints about next steps in the pipeline.

You want to get things more complex? No worries - tons of integrations are at your service. Starting from simple FPT/SFTP deployments, through deployment time script compilation ending with advanced pipelines that include testing, sandboxing, joining other pipelines and parallel execution.

All that wrapped in stylish and intuitive UI that lets you watch the process live. When something goes wrong it's easy to find the exact step and the relevant log messages. Everything enclosed in one view. Awesome!

From the business perspective the TCO for the Buddy is much better (lower) when compared to top CI/CD tools and even open source solutions.

Inconvénients

For the standalone edition some may find Buddy a being a black box. It could be difficult to get you hands dirty on internals of the system.

If you're used to get control on every detail you may find the Buddy UI limiting you.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Alternatives envisagées 

CircleCI

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

Easy to create pipelines, it's an experiment I like, different environment, no tedious typing, all using UI!

Inconvénients

So far I haven't felt any drawbacks using Buddy, but I know you guys need this, sorry :)

Avantages

The most we like: simple to use, friendly and modern UI.
We might not be a big company using a ton of architecture, but we've found solutions in Buddy to all our deployment related tasks.

Inconvénients

They are having hard time keeping all the documentation up to date.

Avantages

The user interface is really easy to understand, allowing people with different skill-sets to use it.

They have an enterprise version that you can launch effortlessly on the AWS/Google cloud market places and manage yourself, but for smaller clients you can just use the SaaS version.

On top of all the available actions, it's so easy to just pull down a docker image to do whatever you need. This opens the door to a lot of custom actions.

Inconvénients

Nothing comes to mind. I've had a issue or two with the sandbox functionality but their support is really quick so nothing to complain about.

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

Using Buddy for web deployment process made my working life so much better. Once set up, it's very easy to use and given me so much piece of mind.

Inconvénients

Most of the time, it works great, but when there's an error happening, it could get tricky to resolve the issue.

Avantages

I like a lot the easy way to configure projects and create pipelines to deploy my application in different environments.

Inconvénients

I think they should create most documentation.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jenkins

Pourquoi passer à Buddy

Usability and because it's a cloud based application and I don't need to worried about infrastructure management.

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

CD/CI is hard no matter how you look at it. The design of the Buddy UI makes it so simple to create and automate the entire CI workflow. I can control every aspect of the pipeline, monitor the progress of each build and easily reach detailed logging whenever I need it.

Inconvénients

None that I can really think of right now

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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!

Avantages

Deployments are a breeze with Buddy. Every single option we could possibly want is available to us. I can't imagine not using this tool for deployments.

Inconvénients

There aren't really any cons I've found with this tool. Some custom gulp compilations run somewhat slowly, but overall that's not a big deal.

Avantages

ease of use, efficiency, accessibility, and design.

Inconvénients

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

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

A said in title "Does everything you need" and once you configure it you can "forget" about it :) as simply said "buddy works" :D

Inconvénients

Everything was super easy, there is tone of documentation so im writing this part just because is required :D

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

We love the ease of use. We have tried many other CI systems and found Buddy to be the easiest and best for our front-end flow. We absolutely LOVE sandboxes, we find the most value in them. We constantly have the maximum number running for all projects to allow business and QA teams to view.

Inconvénients

There are some gotchas and things that could be improved. Making it easier to duplicate workflows across projects, for example. Sandboxes are still in beta and could use some of the same improvements. Making it easier to define a default setup for sandboxes, and the ability to allocate lower memory to allow running more smaller sandboxes at once.

Avantages

It's so easy to create a new project and setup the actions needed for deployment. What I also like is the possibility to clone a project and to setup variables within a project.

Inconvénients

That's not really about the product itself, but about the pricing. I'm still on an old plan, but now even the smallest plan starts at $75/month. That's quite expensive if you have just a couple of projects.

Avantages

Buddy is the easy to configure and run your pipes. in minutes you can run a CI/CD project without trouble.

Inconvénients

Nothing comes to my mind against Buddy. If I have any doubt, support team is fast to help us