Buildkite
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Buildkite is the top CI/CD platform.
What do you like best about the product?
Buildkite has a fantastic plugin architecture that lets me, my team, and even newbies-to-the-tool write their own plugins. Unlike Jenkins, these plugins don't break anything or interfere with the system in any way. Their support team is also amazing, super responsive and knowledgeable.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is a difficult question, because Buildkite is such a great product, it is hard to find anything to dislike. Their slack integration is a generation behind on the slack API, which makes it a bit tougher to admin at scale, but that is a very minor thing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Buildkite is solving CI/CD at-scale and is at the forefront of tech for automated build and deploy pipelines. We can run thousands of pipelines through Buildkite without blinking an eye, everything just works and it all scales elastically, allowing my support team to focus on other tasks. We're doing thousands of deploys a month, doing true continuous deployment (not just delivery), and Buildkite enables that for us with ease.
Buildkite is a joy for users and operators alike
What do you like best about the product?
Buildkite is a pleasure for our developers to use compared to other solutions we've tried. It is pluggable and customizable for the organization's needs without being cumbersome to customize. I love that we can use Vault to intuitively and securely store secrets for individual pipelines or shared secrets. We can encapsulate shared pipeline logic by writing simple plugins. Operating the runners is a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
Buildkite's documentation and tooling for plugins made it easy to fall into the trap of writing big plugins that are all bash code which is very difficult to test, so be mindful when writing plugins to only use bash as a minimal wrapper.
Their pipeline search functionality is not the greatest.
Onboarding pipelines is not the easiest, especially if you want the pipeline to be defined from code in the repo itself.
But these are small prices to pay for how great Buildkite is.
Their pipeline search functionality is not the greatest.
Onboarding pipelines is not the easiest, especially if you want the pipeline to be defined from code in the repo itself.
But these are small prices to pay for how great Buildkite is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Buildkite solves the business problem of securely deploying code into our infrastructure without being a pain to operate. Its usability also improves developers' engagement with their CI/CD processes, allowing them to tweak the process for increased speed and reliability. Buildkite is also used to automate everyday tasks we want non-SREs to feel comfortable initiating.
Really great documentation, and easy to understand.
What do you like best about the product?
Very flexible, gives engineers flexibility and ease of use. We can integrate with our existing tools fairly easily due to this flexibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
It'd be great to see more APIs for streamlining certain things. Such as creating a suite entry through an API rather than having to do it manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's solving ease of use, accessibility, and keeping our team nimble and more focused on improving the CI Experience. We don't have to worry about maintenance as much.
Buildkite is a pleasure to use and is incredibly powerful!
What do you like best about the product?
Buildkite is an extremely modern CI framework that allows for a modular ci pipeline, provides the ability to create your own abstractions and supports monorepos and micro services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really - it's very reliable, easy to run and affordable!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to ship code faster and iterate faster so our clients can receive new feature at a reliable clip.
I use Buildkite everyday
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use, friendly UI and best CI tool I've used this far! Easy to see all your build steps, your builds all in one, and everything you'd need.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much I can think of... It seems to have all the features I need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using it as a developer, to make sure all the CI steps pass in my branch.
Best in class CICD delivering the security of self-hosting with the efficiency of a SAAS solution.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to ensure code stays within a controlled environment, even while using a SAAS platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to date. We've been able to deliver on all requirements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CICD for applications and infrastructure deployment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Seriously consider adopting Buildkite to deliver on your CI/CD requirements.
Very flexible and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up agents and configuring the jobs are very easy. The ability to dynamically generate and upload your pipeline is also super powerful. The user interface is very clean and easy to understand. I also really love how we can just set up agents anywhere we like; this helped some of our more security and privacy conscious clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
They have so many awesome secret features that aren't documented, it's always a joy to find out that something I need is already built, but frustrating that I had to reach out to support to find out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of our product builds and delivery. The main benefits have been the simplicity of setting up an agent anywhere you want and configuring it to do what you want it to do.
Buildkite scales with my team 📈
What do you like best about the product?
Gives me the flexibility to deploy at scale, in a secure way
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much at all, buy you have to like YAML
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having my CI/CD scale with my team and not slow us down. The ability to autoscale our CI infra means my devs are not waiting for feedback.
Buildkite is CI tooling that's powerful enough to get the the job done without getting in the way
What do you like best about the product?
Buildkite's biggest advantage is it's flexibility and extensibility of the platform without needing to reinvent the wheel for every little thing. The plugin system allows easy use of third party extensions, while also allowing teams to fork those extensions and customise as needed quickly. The simplicity and flexibility of the agent will enable teams to customise their own worker pools to meet specific needs. The community is also very welcoming and knowledgable; usually willing to share thier experiences and examples of how to solve problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main weakness of Buildkite is the lack of reporting and dashboarding within the tooling. It would be helpful if there was a simple build status radiator page to use as a dashboard of failed builds. More reporting of build timings to help focus on areas of improvement would be great as well. Some kind of release management dashboarding would be great as well, providing a simple overview of the last build deployed per environment. This would make it a much more powerful CD platform also.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Buildkite to manage all our CI across both monolithic and microservice applications, as well as serverless and infrastructure code. We also use it as a flexible job scheduler for adhoc scripts and processes. We've benefited by being able to keep complicated and specific pipelines with the code they're building, as well as leveraging plugins for more common patterns, reducing rework.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure that you leverage the elastic stack if you're on AWS. Make sure that you looking to the plugin system, and particularly how the library-example-buildkite-plugin for how you can easily share common code among different pipelines.
The perfect balance for managed CI
What do you like best about the product?
Over the years, I've used Travis, Circle-CI, Jenkins, and lots of in-house tools. For me, Buildkite manages the right parts - the controller and dashboard - while giving me the proper control over the runtime environment. Compared to other managed CIs, bringing our own agents lets us customize their resources, secure access, and much more -- and also results in a lower bill since they don't charge us a huge markup over raw cloud prices. Better control, more power, and a great price. Customer support and product improvement have also always been outstanding.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to dislike. AWS itself is pretty complicated (we use the Elastic CI CloudFormation stack), but that is the cost of doing business. One reasonably big annoyance is gaining access to logs or artifacts hosted in private AWS buckets. Buildkite provides links that don't (can't?) work because they don't go through an AWS login path. That said, we have a script: folks can copy the URL into and then download files with their own CLI auth.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
* Pre-commit pipelines that only run tests for code that has changed
* One-click releases, fully vetted by CI
* Automatically triggering complicated integration tests
* Managing multiple different build clusters with different resources, requirements, and permissions
* Autoscaling up and down the build infrastructure according to demand
Our dev infra time has gone way down, our bill is manageable, and our engineers are happy.
* One-click releases, fully vetted by CI
* Automatically triggering complicated integration tests
* Managing multiple different build clusters with different resources, requirements, and permissions
* Autoscaling up and down the build infrastructure according to demand
Our dev infra time has gone way down, our bill is manageable, and our engineers are happy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do it. You won't regret it.
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