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Pros
Seamless, beautiful and rock solid. Definitely my choice when deploying Github repositories.
Great product, I started to use it about a year ago and looking forward into new features, recommended to few friends with startup and they love it. Very nice design and many visual integrations.
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.
There are lots of different options for your actions and the documentation is thorough and easy to follow. All in all a great user experience, easy to use with lots of powerful features.
Cons
Lack of documentation to set up automated tests.
No integrations for output parsing (ex. junit is not parsed) only raw output.
Sometimes I have to redo the SSH connection, but it's by server error, not tool.
It looses some configurability with the web interface.
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"Great tool fo CI/CD"
Overall: This is a great choice for continuous integration and continuous delivery for small teams and developers.
Pros: The Buddy interface is comfortable. Pipelines configuration is easy. You can customize pipelines in the UI or in YAML files.
Cons: Occasionally, there are problems with the cache, and I must run the pipeline one more time with cache clearing.
"Very intuitive interface but very expensive"
Overall: For me, Buddy should create a specific Plan for the people who wants ONLY the continus deployment functionnality without any complexity, or just decrease the Pro plan price, if it becomes €5 per month I will switch all my projects on it, or maybe €2 per project per month?
Pros: Very intuitive UI/UX and the free account possibility
Cons: The pricing is very very very expensive. Pro plan is about €29 / month, even my VPS does not cost this price 😅
"Boost Your Deployment Efficiency with Buddy.Works"
Overall: Buddy.Works is a game-changer for CI/CD enthusiasts. Its intuitive interface and powerful automation tools make setting up pipelines a breeze. With lightning-fast builds, seamless integrations, and top-notch customer support, Buddy.Works transforms complex workflows into a smooth, efficient process. Highly recommended for development teams aiming to streamline their deployment practices!
Pros: 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 😊
Cons: So far I didn't have any that could hit me tell any negative words
"This is a toy that you can use for a hobby project"
Overall: Absolutely avoid. Spent last year trying to make it work and now the cost of keeping it alive is just too big so swapping as we speak. Last response from support I had... oh wait, I didn't have any.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
"Buddy is easy to use and looks great!"
Overall: Have used Buddy in several of my roles and would highly recommend it to teams.
Pros: Buddy has a clean user interface which makes it easy to use. The builds are fast and notifications come quickly!
Cons: Honestly there's nothing I dislike about Buddy!
"One of the easiest ways to build and learn CI/CD"
Overall: I have realized the easy to use CI pipeline I've created to save a lot of time deploying my app to a production environment. I was first exposed to CI/CD in general through my role as a Web Developer and used Buddy as my first pipeline builder. The experience was so enlightening that I'm now using it in my personal project to deliver updates to my application in a sophisticated manner. This allows me to spend more time code and strategizing versus the rudimentary manual process I'm used to.
Pros: I like Buddy for the ease of use when you are a budding developer looking to learn CI/CD practices.
Cons: If you're an entry to mid level developer, I feel there is an initial learning curve to learning CI/CD in general. The documentation is satisfactory but it would be improved if each section or sub-section had a "You should know this before reading" bit in the first part of the article. That way a self-taught learner can establish the connection between Buddy and the rest of their stack by understanding key elements that necessitate the use of Buddy or how they are best augmented by what Buddy can do.
"Easy to use, great performance"
Pros: It is one of the most powerful tools to help push code quickly, and can manage error checking when deploying an application
Cons: Sometimes, just sometimes it works a bit slow
"Deployment Wizards"
Pros: Buddy made it incredibly easy to deploy our website.
Cons: Some of the frequent UI changes made the site difficult to navigate.
"Highly recommend for CI/CD integrations"
Pros: Once Click deployment and visibility of each step
Cons: I can't open github link directly from the buddy
"Easy to build automatisation"
Overall: i like it. i build pipeline with github to automate push to staging and live
Pros: easy automatisation of pipelines and good overview
Cons: at the moment there is nothing that i would like to do better
"The underdog of CI/CD"
Overall: Fantastic product, support is top-notch. Definately wouldn't consider going anywhere else.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
"Easy to Use & Beautiful UI"
Overall: Buddy is the easiest CI/CD solution I could find.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
"Easy to Use and setup CI/CD"
Pros: - Very easy to use and setup - Lots of configurations and third party integrations - Easy to read documentation
Cons: - Community for Buddy may be smaller compared to other popular CI/CD
"Great CI tool"
Pros: Easy to use, simple, powerful and intuitive UX.
Cons: Documentation could be more in depth in some areas, it is a bit of a learning curve at first.
"A powerful and easy-to-use CI/CD platform"
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
"Good job!"
Pros: Buddy.works is an important tool for our deployment!
Cons: The navigation is sometimes not self-explaining. Change the owner of the workspace you can find unter "Billing".
"Suluh Review"
Overall: Because Bitbucket has a very annoying pipeline limit, I'm trying to find an external CI/CD that can integrate with Bitbucket. Long story short, I found Buddy, to be honest, I was very constrained with payments, I could afford it but I didn't have payments abroad (only Indonesia), and it turned out that Buddy was free! I was very happy, I thought "this is free, at least it's not good and incomplete", it turns out that my thoughts were wrong, this is very cool, very good, very complete, this even makes it easier for me, always success for Buddy, hopefully in the future it will always be free with enough features as it is today. Or hopefully in the future it can support payments from Indonesia, hehe. Thanks!
Pros: Easy to create pipelines, it's an experiment I like, different environment, no tedious typing, all using UI!
Cons: So far I haven't felt any drawbacks using Buddy, but I know you guys need this, sorry :)
"Buddy Works as a Continuous Integration tool"
Overall: Buddy has been a huge help in our organization's engineering team by fail-safe builds.
Pros: Buddy has the most convenient CI/CD and deployment functionalities. It's web-UI based work flow builder really stands out and helps beginner mobile devs to easily use continuous integration.
Cons: Buddy's Pro plan doesn't really suffice for memory-hungry builds. Especially in android builds, I felt it's 3GB Ram for Pro plan isn't really close to what we need. Builds would usually fail due to memory issues, no matter how optimized the pipeline is
"The Buddy Review"
Pros: The pros that I can tell about this software are that it is very easy to use and the user interface is also very clean and anyone can learn to use this easily. You can easily set up your pipelines to automate your CI and deployments.
Cons: There are no cons about this that I have found about this software right now.
"Easy to use without sacrificing features"
Overall: We are currently migrating a lot of old delivery services that were missing pipeline support, and on the projects we have moved we have saved a lot of time and money when we don't have to handle merge conflicts on files that should be built on deployment anyway.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
"Makes it ridiculously easy to build and maintain complex CI/CD pipelines"
Pros: 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.
Cons: Price, maybe? IIRC, it's a little more expensive than alternatives but I think it's worth it in the end.
"Buddy is great"
Overall: Our favorite CI / CD service became the Buddy platform with a modern interface, conceptual innovations, and live assistance. Be it Azure, AWS, K8s, Python, Java, PHP, FTP, SSH, Slack, SMS... the platform didn't let us down
Pros: 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.
Cons: They are having hard time keeping all the documentation up to date.
"Great deployment platform for all our needs"
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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!
"Excellent!"
Overall: Buddy has helped our team tremendously in making us able to collaborate on site development.
Pros: ease of use, efficiency, accessibility, and design.
Cons: 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
"The simplest and probably the most complete solution for deploying your projects to servers."
Overall: Great, Buddy has made it easy to build a complex deployment process that is version controlled and easy to manage in forked projects.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.