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Web and software developers
About Buddy
Buddy is a revolutionary build, test & deploy tool with dozens of integrations and over 100 ready-to-use actions. From website delivery to app deployments, from builds to test, Buddy turns the tedious part of every project into a breeze. Buddy is the most effective way to build better apps faster. Even the most complicated CI/CD workflows take minutes to create. Buddy is DevOps adoption winner. Smart changes detection, state-of-the-art caching, parallelism, and all-around optimizations make Buddy the fastest. Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless and Blockchain are always a click away from your stack. Buddy is minimal friction automation platform that makes DevOps easy for developers, designers and QA teams. With Buddy, your apps & websites are built, tested and deployed significantly faster after only minutes of setup.
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"Easy Deployment Pipelines" Edited 2022-06-29
Pros: The UI is super user friendly, to setup projects is super easy, after we did some POCs, we decide migrated existed projects from Jenkins to BuddyCI immediately.
Cons: If there are more tutorials or how-to articles on the site would be super helpful.
To my knowledge so far, I could not find a way to see what is the pass/failure rate for all pipelines/projects, the reporting is not very helpful by just displaying runtime.Overall: The BuddyCI definitely is a solid tool to use and so easy to set up, and I am always feeling it has so much more potential than the way I am currently using it, can't wait to see more intro, how-to, or hands-on articles/videos or webinars.
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"Excellent for automation" Edited 2022-08-04
Pros: 1. Makes deployment a breeze.
2. One-time setup and now as soon as the PR merges into develop or master it auto deploys.Cons: 1. I haven't seen any major issues so far, therefore, no cons for now.
Overall: I work at a SaaS company that uses Buddy for auto-deployment, it makes development easier for us because we don't have to worry about deploying.
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"Great deployment service" Posted 2022-06-24
Pros: Easy deployment and easy tracking, for every deployment release. has been a true game-changer for us ever since the integration.
Cons: Nothing to complain about so far. I can’t pinpoint any drawbacks.
Overall: Buddy has been great so far and we recommend it to anyone as it allows us to allocate more time to higher priority tasks.
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"Great GUI CI/CD pipeline" Posted 2022-06-10
Pros: Easy to use GUI with tonnes of options. The pipelines are very easy to maintain with Buddy. Easy integration with GitHub.
Cons: So far I have yet to run into any issues using this product.
Overall: Great experience overall. I am new to CI/CD and Buddy was so intuitive to use and made my pipeline maintenance a great experience.
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"Great tool for developers" Posted 2022-06-09
Pros: Huge amount of customization possible. The solution we came from was very simple and we outgrew it's capabilities, with Buddy it does not seem possible. It supports a huge library of functionality that made our deployment setup a breeze.
Great support, always answers quickly and actually contacts their developers for clarification if tech support is unable to answer your question.Cons: A small learning curve coming from simpler tools, however it is not overwhelming.
Overall: Buddy has made my life easier as a developer who does both development and system administration. I can do all our testing, deployment and custom calls from the same place with a modern interface. We are very happy.
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"Excellent solution" Posted 2022-06-01
Pros: Buddy has been fantastic for continuous deployment of a shopping cart application. Previously I would have done this with an FTP client where it would have been difficult to track but Buddy makes it.
Cons: I have not had any disadvantages of using the product so far.
Overall: Overall, it's been a good experience. The product has been easy to use and communication has been good from the team. Look forward to use Buddy more.
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"Pleasantly surprised" Posted 2022-06-01
Pros: - Quick first setup
- Easy to learn
- Just works
- Easy to troubleshoot, add more steps, and collaborateCons: We are only using it for a small project so we haven't tested the limits of the platform. For our use, we haven't had any major issues yet.
Overall: We were looking for a no-frills way to set up a basic CI/CD pipeline for a proof of concept. Had used Jenkins, CircleCI, and a couple of alternatives before. Was pleasantly surprised at how easy and quick it was to have a basic bare-bones pipeline up and running with Buddy. We hope to continue and growing our use of it.
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"Great tool" Posted 2022-05-31
Pros: I use Buddy to automatically deploy our GitHub Repositories to our web server. The setup process went absolutely flawless and since then in works like a charm.
Cons: I am using Buddy for quite a while now, but I have nothing to complain about so far.
Overall: Overall, I am very satisfied with Buddy. It simplifies my deploying process in a great way and is easy to use at the same time. Definitely would recommend!
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"Best deployment service" Posted 2022-05-17
Pros: Easy deployment and easy tracking, for every deployment release. We can easily see the log and everything, especially the percentage to indicate the deployment process which is something very insightful.
Cons: So far everything is easy and simple to use. Nothing to complain about.
Overall: The overall experience to use Buddy has been great so far, the interface is simple yet fulfilling the needs.
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"Awesome service" Posted 2022-05-12
Pros: Ease of use.
Good UI self explanatory so it's really easy to get in to.
Love how good Pipelines works with GitHub.Cons: So far no cons and I use it daily for couple of months.
Overall: Started to use it for first time couple of months ago as a part of a team and got in workflow instantly.
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"Easy and Powerful" Posted 2022-05-08
Pros: Extremely easy to use.
I created two pipelines using distinct technologies, Kubernetes + .NET and Node + FTP server and everything was working in less than 1 hour.
As a free user, you can use all the tools they provide even for enterprise users.Cons: As a free user, you can use 1GB of ram per run, so maybe you will need to change some settings on your build process to fit this limit.
Overall: I never had a background in DevOps, but I can set up everything I need to roll up my app with all the tools I need using Buddy.
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"Straightforward deployment tool Buddy" Posted 2022-05-07
Pros: Simple and Nice Buddy Works UI. I like simple feature just want to get auto deployment done within 15 minutes.
Cons: Hard to navigate back to main pipeline interface after navigated the error logging. this system flow can be enhanced.
Overall: Simple to use.. I like the system interface of Buddy Works. Easy to configure CI/CD pipeline for deployment.
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"Very nice user interface and does everything I need" Posted 2022-04-25
Pros: - Great user interface. Features very discoverable
- Fantastic caching functionality:
One of the things I missed when moving away from jenkins to other CI/CD providers was that there was no persistent filesystem between runs, meaning one has to re-download docker images/node packages etc. each time. Other CI/CD providers have their own caching solutions which you can configure, but with Buddy the cache just works for many things without any configuration, because the persistent filesystem means that e.g. docker remote image/build caching can do its magic.
- Analytics functionality for build time is cool. There are lots of nice surprises like thisCons: - Really nitpicking but would be nice if analytics went further back than 2 weeks
Overall: I'm still pretty new to using buddy, but everything I've seen so far has been great. The user interface really stands out among other similar solutions.
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Pros: Slick & intuitive interface.
Really easy to set-up.
Ready to go action templates.
Useful integrations - Github, Slack and more.
Great customer support.Cons: Expensive monthly pricing for Pro account, there should be more pricing tiers to make it affordable.
Overall: Buddy is a powerful & intuitive CI/CD tool which makes complex deployment process a breeze. It helps create and automate entire pipeline in minutes and is a great time-saver. The intuitive and easy to use interface makes it accessible even for non-technical people.
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"Buddy is a buddy" Posted 2020-03-09
Pros: - Super easy to use even by team members that are not part of the development team
- Easy to setup
- Provides a good way to automate a set of actionsCons: - Does not provide an easy way of resolving issues that may occur while running a pipeline
Overall: Quite satisfied using the service and would definitely recommend even for production use on some projects
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"Best devops tool for deploy apps" Posted 2020-03-05
Pros: - speed work
- sftp connection
- easy UI
- works from everywhere, hosted on Buddy serversCons: - higher paies
- I dont have now other idea what is bad on this app. Its simple and good.Overall: I am happy to deploy apps with Buddy. It works in our company and I starting use it personally.
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"Most Intuitive" Posted 2020-03-05
Pros: Extremely easy to learn even for novice solo developers
Cons: I don't like the permanent chat icon on the bottom right
Overall: Wouldn't use anything else for simple or even complicated CI / CD installations
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"Good alternative to GitLab CI" Posted 2020-03-04
Pros: I really like being able to configure builds visually, and the ability to run specific actions in parallel. This comes in handy when we have different types of build steps and deployment methods for different projects.
Cons: Not sure what some of the settings do, or whether I'm even configuring them right until after I spend several minutes configuring and testing again with a lot of trial and error. I'd like to be able to define a standard process and share it among multiple projects instead of having to configure each one individually.
Overall: So far, this seems like a good alternative to GitLab CI, but not sure if the cost is worth it at this point, since GLCI is free.
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"QA Tester Approved" Posted 2020-03-04
Pros: Mainly the UI. It's awesome being able to see the progress.
Cons: Branches seem to deploy slower than the other option (Slack commands).
Overall: Overall, it's super easy and user-friendly. I would definitely recommend this product.
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"Great UI - Love Buddy!" Edited 2020-03-04
Pros: Clean and easy to use interface
Run and watch build deployment
Real-time monitoring
Integration , ie. Github and SlackCons: There was a certificate issue that took some time to resolve, but outside of that, I can't think of one.
Overall: Used in QA for build deployments / test environment
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