CircleCI - MCP Server
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CircleCi as part of CD pipeline
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is very good. Things are clear and easy to read.
Integration with GitHub is also very good!
SSH access has been very useful.
Integration with GitHub is also very good!
SSH access has been very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Circle.yml can be quite confusing.
The ability to use self to built build machines would be good as well.
The ability to use self to built build machines would be good as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's speed up creation of articacts.
Seeing as it's SaaS for a startup like us; not having to deal with maintenance is a god send.
Seeing as it's SaaS for a startup like us; not having to deal with maintenance is a god send.
Positive overall
What do you like best about the product?
Seamlessly integrates with Github and is ridiculously easy to setup
What do you dislike about the product?
Outages seem to occur more than I would like, likely because Circle depends on a lot of other services?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having an efficient and reliable CI / CD pipeline, the benefits are frequent and reliable deployments and the ability to ship features quicker.
Fantastic continuous integration services
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI is one of the best continuous integration platforms available. Their services are fast and very feature rich, allowing things such as ssh capabilities for failing builds etc which can save mountains of time. Their service is very good at getting default builds running, and allows tweaking from there to make the build and running processes as smooth a possible. The support is always fantastic, with responses often coming within minutes of enquiries.
What do you dislike about the product?
Native support for some up and coming technologies has been slow to evolve e.g. Elixir; however there are many unofficial methods out there to support most technologies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous Integration needs to be at the core of every development team. We have tried many providers, including hosting our own, and nothing had the simplicity and reliability that we've had with CircleCI.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it out, the free tier is very generous, there's likely to be very little that you'd want to accomplish in the continuous integration space that you won't be able to do.
Pretty darn good.
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI let's you focus on development and getting things done. It's not another responsibility and it allows you to use your time more wisely (coding rather than baby sitting builds)
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI needs work. During builds we get a bunch of logs spit out and it takes forever to scroll down and follow along with the logs. This is seriously annoying and the behaviour doesn't seem consistent. Some initial set up also isn't all that simple, but once you get it going it's not really a big deal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps you and your team focus on writing code and building features, compared to other CI solutions circle isn't another responsibility. Once it's set up it usually does its thing and it does it well. It's become invaluable.
Circel Ci is easy to integrate and use with cool UI/UX
What do you like best about the product?
Circle Ci is easy to use, integrate and have cool UI.
I mostly love all the feature of it.
It also provide 1 free container that is good for open source project. Open source project owner can be use this Circle Ci integration tool easily.
I mostly love all the feature of it.
It also provide 1 free container that is good for open source project. Open source project owner can be use this Circle Ci integration tool easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some times it's take a lot of time for test a build, i think it can make faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous Integration for the product and Apps are easy to achieve with circle ci.
[Ci skip] is also supported by circle Ci so if we don't want to run CI for documentation releated code then it's make easy to use.
[Ci skip] is also supported by circle Ci so if we don't want to run CI for documentation releated code then it's make easy to use.
Engineering lead on an open source project using CircleCI
What do you like best about the product?
I don't have to host it and it's free for open source projects. For a relatively simple (dependency-wise) Go project with a good suite of unit tests, it was easy to get running, integrated with GitHub to ensure every PR was passing our unit tests. Once it's all configured it's great, it just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
YAML configuration files are kind of a pain. The available database services seem to be targeting a cross section of technologies and outside of the old school core RDBs (MySQL, PostgreSQL), hit a mix of highly used, and kind of esoteric options (do they have a lot of Neo4j or Riak users?). It would be nice to see a few more options available (we have a RethinkDB integration, hint, hint...) because I'm not going to pick my services because the CI system supports it, I'm going to pick a CI system because it supports my services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating test runs against all submitted PRs. We later added a CodeCov integration and we submit coverage analysis from CircleCI over to CodeCov. That visibility helped us raise our test coverage from ~55% to ~75% over about 3 months, all through small, less than 1%, bumps in coverage with each PR merged to master.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're test and build environments are relatively straightforward, it's a good tool. However other solutions are easier to work with as your setup becomes increasingly complex.
small team tested
What do you like best about the product?
The docker integration is super handy when I'm lucky enough to have a side project built that way. I have used it without docker for smaller projects too... I even think that is better than Travis, but my experience is less deep there. The setup is painless
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is a bit sparse in an unhelpful way. Either the text and elements could be bigger, or more could be added. I don't often use the web interface, but when I do it's a "meh" experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for small client projects with private repos and few specs along with developing larger internal services in docker environments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think it's the best built-in CI for docker environments I've used so if that applies to you it might be worth switching.
Continuous Integration flexible and modern
What do you like best about the product?
You pay for containers so you can have lots of projects running their integrations in the same container, in that sense is cheaper than TravisCI service, and generate the .circle.yml file on the repo can be done too on the UI
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't found shell tools for check the .yml syntax of the .yml file though the alternative of being generated by the web is cool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was a travel company with lots of subsystems and apis connected, so continuos integrations of these apis was critical in order to don't have downtimes, or bugs that can interrupt the service
Nice CI with good docker support
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI really impresses me with a few things -
1. Build on Linux + OSX + Android - CircleCI is the most cross-platform hosted CI server that I've ever seen - it currently supports Linux and OSX, alongwith app builds for Android and IOS. I really love the fact that they dont play favourites with their service, it wants to support all popular platforms that developers want. Moneywise, I think this is good as I only have to pay once for all the services. Even though it seems to be priced at the higher end, because I take advantage of most of the platforms it supports, I think its worth it for me.
2. Auto-parallelisation - This is another great feature that I miss on other platforms - what CircleCI does is that it automatically splits your commands into separate batches and runs them in parallel to speed up the whole process. And circle does deliver on its speed promises.
3. Integration with services like Heroku + Coveralls + Sauce labs - CircleCI has loads of useful integrations with some lesser popular services like Sauce Labs and Coveralls and as I said, they are important to cover all aspects of your good coding practises like Code quality and Multi-browser testing for webapps.
4. Docker support - Docker is the rising star of testing in the last few years and CircleCI does a decent job of enabling developers to take advantage of it. Dev-test-production equivalence on docker means that you dont need to worry about developer builds/machines having different configuration than production. The whole environment is created every time on demand from docker images, so there is no chance of dirtying your production system. Also, all public and private Docker registry is supported via simple Docker push and Docker pull commands.
5. Community preview (beta) - CircleCi has a good outreach program for their active users, where they basically send emails or show notifications in the sidebar about their new developments and urge you to try it out. Good thing is they know that because it is a beta thing, stuff may break and assign a Customer support to you pro-actively, in case you may need some help with rollback or want to provide feedback.
1. Build on Linux + OSX + Android - CircleCI is the most cross-platform hosted CI server that I've ever seen - it currently supports Linux and OSX, alongwith app builds for Android and IOS. I really love the fact that they dont play favourites with their service, it wants to support all popular platforms that developers want. Moneywise, I think this is good as I only have to pay once for all the services. Even though it seems to be priced at the higher end, because I take advantage of most of the platforms it supports, I think its worth it for me.
2. Auto-parallelisation - This is another great feature that I miss on other platforms - what CircleCI does is that it automatically splits your commands into separate batches and runs them in parallel to speed up the whole process. And circle does deliver on its speed promises.
3. Integration with services like Heroku + Coveralls + Sauce labs - CircleCI has loads of useful integrations with some lesser popular services like Sauce Labs and Coveralls and as I said, they are important to cover all aspects of your good coding practises like Code quality and Multi-browser testing for webapps.
4. Docker support - Docker is the rising star of testing in the last few years and CircleCI does a decent job of enabling developers to take advantage of it. Dev-test-production equivalence on docker means that you dont need to worry about developer builds/machines having different configuration than production. The whole environment is created every time on demand from docker images, so there is no chance of dirtying your production system. Also, all public and private Docker registry is supported via simple Docker push and Docker pull commands.
5. Community preview (beta) - CircleCi has a good outreach program for their active users, where they basically send emails or show notifications in the sidebar about their new developments and urge you to try it out. Good thing is they know that because it is a beta thing, stuff may break and assign a Customer support to you pro-actively, in case you may need some help with rollback or want to provide feedback.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really dont have too much to complain against them, but still here are the little problems I have faced over time -
1. Build matrix for multiple builds is not supported like in Travis or Appveyor - it is really needed for testing many combination of environments to make sure all permutations are checked. You can still hand code all the options, but it doesnt seem like a good use of time for developers.
2. After subscribing to their beta preview, they upgraded their OS image for my account and a lot of things were changed in the new image, essentially making multiple language version configurations very tedious. That broke my tests and they couldnt offer immediate solution to it after describing to them, only they promised to report it to their developers in turn. It was not a big problem though, as they rolled back my account to normal OS image after reporting about this.
1. Build matrix for multiple builds is not supported like in Travis or Appveyor - it is really needed for testing many combination of environments to make sure all permutations are checked. You can still hand code all the options, but it doesnt seem like a good use of time for developers.
2. After subscribing to their beta preview, they upgraded their OS image for my account and a lot of things were changed in the new image, essentially making multiple language version configurations very tedious. That broke my tests and they couldnt offer immediate solution to it after describing to them, only they promised to report it to their developers in turn. It was not a big problem though, as they rolled back my account to normal OS image after reporting about this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my day job, we use it for testing docker-based projects for our client support.
Its docker-support is pretty top-notch and very fast compared to other options we have tried. Although it is new to the scene, it seems quite rock stable in our daily use, which is why we decided to use it exclusively for some projects.
Its docker-support is pretty top-notch and very fast compared to other options we have tried. Although it is new to the scene, it seems quite rock stable in our daily use, which is why we decided to use it exclusively for some projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Hosted CI seems to be the flavour of the year, so there is a lot of good options and the competition is only rising. You should definitely do your trial with a few of these before you finally decide on the optimal one. Only I would suggest that CircleCI is one of the good ones in the sea of CI services and worth trying out.
Deploying Docker Containers and Open Source Products
What do you like best about the product?
I liked that it make testing docker containers super easy. It took about 2-3 minutes to set up and was extremely easy to add other people to use. I currently use it for all my open source products for continuous integration over Travis CI which makes things a lot easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
It had 1 major outage which affected my production deploys for a day. I do not have any other complaints besides that one day but they sent free swag to make up for it and were awesome about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a better way to solve CI testing and deploys. We were using Codeship but they had not released docker support at the time which has currently changed. We needed something that supported docker easily and not docker as well. It integrated with Github nicely and made things super easy for me to set up for the team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It only works with Github so be conscious about that if you have to support Stash or anything else.
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