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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.
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Reimagining our CI/CD workflow with Buildkite
What do you like best about the product?
The platform and API documentation are stellar; kudos to the GraphQL explorer as well!
Utilizing clusters and having a webhook and notification service built into the platform has eased some previous pain we've experienced.
The web UI and UX are very intuitive, and pairing them with the amazing docs makes for a pleasant product introduction.
Utilizing clusters and having a webhook and notification service built into the platform has eased some previous pain we've experienced.
The web UI and UX are very intuitive, and pairing them with the amazing docs makes for a pleasant product introduction.
What do you dislike about the product?
Mostly a personal gripe; creating a YAML pipeline doesn't feel great when done through the API.
More specifically, the configuration field in the payload is very clunky and difficult to interface with as a human.
(I know the intention is for it to be done programmatically as an API, but it felt worth calling out)
Another nit-picky thing I've noticed is that certain values that go into a build's meta_data are casted in the response/event notification payloads. (int -> string)
More specifically, the configuration field in the payload is very clunky and difficult to interface with as a human.
(I know the intention is for it to be done programmatically as an API, but it felt worth calling out)
Another nit-picky thing I've noticed is that certain values that go into a build's meta_data are casted in the response/event notification payloads. (int -> string)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being a vendored and managed service, Buildkite alleviates the pains of CI platform maintenance, helping us spend more time on things that matter more.
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.
Buildkite the tool and company helped us achieve our CI consolidation
What do you like best about the product?
We achieved most of our goals in consolidating to a central, zero-trust, code-driven CICD platform using Buildkite. The tools and APIs are simple, well-considered components that we can compose into a wide variety of pipelines to suit our business. The company was responsive to all our initial questions, integration work and continues to support our users and our automated build and deploy requirements.
What do you dislike about the product?
A minor inconvenience is the granularity of permissions and interface, which stops us from achieving self-administration for our dev teams. We still require full-org administrators for some tasks - notably, Notifications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We required a central, third-party orchestrator for our CICD processes that helps us deploy our own build infrastructure (agents), has little or no access to our credentials and secrets, can be code-driven, provides appropriate user-directory integration, and so-on. We were able to achieve this with Buildkite.
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.
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