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Buddy — One-click delivery automation for developers
Smart CI/CD platform allowing web developers to save time on repeatable tasks. Integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab.
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@gregoiregilbert It’s not easy to talk about other companies as everyone is trying to do their best. I can tell we strive to deliver the fastest and most reliable solution on the market that can easily be added to any existing dev setup.
We've been working on Buddy for a year now in a team of 20, delivering new features almost every week. We're currently focusing on new pipeline actions and better integration with GitHub, Bitbucket and the recently added GitLab.
Our aim is to create a tool that will allow people to automate their development process as much as possible and respond to the actual needs of the web development community.
@gregoiregilbert @sztwiorok I literally JUST realized this afternoon that the free version of DeployBot was no longer. This is great timing, and seems like a great service, def. will be checking it out!
Being a SysAdmin, I was a little apprehensive to delve into CI products. Thankfully Buddy made it really easy to hook up the PaaS environment and GitHub repo, and that was basically it! It's great to get instant builds when the team pushes new code to the web app, and I get way more visibility into and build issues than I thought I would. Thanks Buddy!
Really neat UI :) Seriously considering using this in production. That being said, is it reliably stable for production use?
@ulisantosg Thanks Uli! We are using Buddy for production in our team of 20 developers and I can assure you that stability is among our top priorities, as is listening to the community and responding to their feedback.
You can also install Buddy on your own server if you wish: https://buddy.works/buddy-go
@ilmi_ali Hi Ilmi! Yes, we do support EC2. Here's a step-by-step guide how to install Buddy on AWS: https://buddy.works/knowledge/st...
Does a hell of a job when it comes to CI/CD. We use it for two projects in production. The pipelines work very intuitive, but I feel the UX could be a bit better in terms of navigating through the dashboard with different projects.
Since discovering Buddy, I have completely moved away from tinkering with my own GitLab Runners, and automated deployment through SFTP with Beanstalk (cumbersome!).
The single most valued feature for me is the Atomic Deployment recipe, being able to add this modern approach to deployment, for my WordPress clients, is by far paying itself back!
But that is just one of the many use cases!
- Very easy to use CI/CD platform with a wide array of integrations.
- Being the sysadmin/DevOps for our team, It helped me smooth out our development cycle a lot and improved developers' productivity too!
- Also, a very clean UI!
One request though - have you guys thought about dark mode haha?
Thanks!
I’ve been using Springloops from the same team for years (back to v1). It’s very reliable and the support is responsive. Now I need to try Buddy :)
@jesucarr Thanks Jesús! Yes, we have a dedicated deployment action for that: look for the GCE icon when configuring your pipeline. Note that if you're using the on-premises version you need to integrate with Google first, here's an article how to do that: https://buddy.works/knowledge/st...
@kivlov84 GCE is Google Compute Engine, and I mean Google Cloud Functions. Are we talking about the same thing?
@jesucarr Ah, sorry - impulsive response to 'Google' in comment. We shall ad GCF integration in one of the oncoming iterations. Is there anything else you'd like to automate?
I love buddy.works! Simple UI for those new to devops but robust enough for almost all experienced devops engineers. Works great for managing multiple pipelines for different applications. It's simple integration with almost all platforms makes it a no brainer!
Nice UI, Easy to start. Lots of preloaded containers and ability to customization. Many integrations that run out of the box and it is exciting.
Not speed optimized in some cases. E.g. file sync can take up to 15 seconds on small file because of it runs separate container and some magic behind the scene. I think it should be a prerun container that works with this kind of task 10x time faster.
@conradd Thanks! Give it a shot and share your thoughts on the UX - we did our best to make Buddy super smooth to use.
Buddy is relatively easy to use and has a well designed GitHub integration. I'm currently using it for a bot to deploy. Without buddy it would be to time consuming to upload and run commands after every git commit. There are two things I would wish: A more detailed documentation and a dark mode. Otherwise, pretty cool!
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