Buddy Reviews

Summary: 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.

Positive: 1. Makes deployment a breeze.
2. One-time setup and now as soon as the PR merges into develop or master it auto deploys.

Negative: 1. I haven't seen any major issues so far, therefore, no cons for now.

Summary: Buddy has been great so far and we recommend it to anyone as it allows us to allocate more time to higher priority tasks.

Positive: Easy deployment and easy tracking, for every deployment release. has been a true game-changer for us ever since the integration.

Negative: Nothing to complain about so far. I can’t pinpoint any drawbacks.

Summary: Great experience overall. I am new to CI/CD and Buddy was so intuitive to use and made my pipeline maintenance a great experience.

Positive: Easy to use GUI with tonnes of options. The pipelines are very easy to maintain with Buddy. Easy integration with GitHub.

Negative: So far I have yet to run into any issues using this product.

Summary: 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.

Positive: 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.

Negative: A small learning curve coming from simpler tools, however it is not overwhelming.

Summary: 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.

Positive: 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.

Negative: I have not had any disadvantages of using the product so far.

Summary: 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.

Positive: - Quick first setup
- Easy to learn
- Just works
- Easy to troubleshoot, add more steps, and collaborate

Negative: 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.

Summary: 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!

Positive: 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.

Negative: I am using Buddy for quite a while now, but I have nothing to complain about so far.

Summary: The overall experience to use Buddy has been great so far, the interface is simple yet fulfilling the needs.

Positive: 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.

Negative: So far everything is easy and simple to use. Nothing to complain about.

Summary: Started to use it for first time couple of months ago as a part of a team and got in workflow instantly.

Positive: Ease of use.
Good UI self explanatory so it's really easy to get in to.
Love how good Pipelines works with GitHub.

Negative: So far no cons and I use it daily for couple of months.

Summary: 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.

Positive: 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.

Negative: 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.

Summary: 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.

Positive: - 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 this

Negative: - Really nitpicking but would be nice if analytics went further back than 2 weeks

Summary: 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.

Positive: Slick & intuitive interface.
Really easy to set-up.
Ready to go action templates.
Useful integrations - Github, Slack and more.
Great customer support.

Negative: Expensive monthly pricing for Pro account, there should be more pricing tiers to make it affordable.

Summary: Quite satisfied using the service and would definitely recommend even for production use on some projects

Positive: - 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 actions

Negative: - Does not provide an easy way of resolving issues that may occur while running a pipeline

Summary: Wouldn't use anything else for simple or even complicated CI / CD installations

Positive: Extremely easy to learn even for novice solo developers

Negative: I don't like the permanent chat icon on the bottom right

Summary: Used in QA for build deployments / test environment

Positive: Clean and easy to use interface
Run and watch build deployment
Real-time monitoring
Integration , ie. Github and Slack

Negative: There was a certificate issue that took some time to resolve, but outside of that, I can't think of one.