--- title: Buddy Reviews meta_title: 'Buddy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 211 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Buddy works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 211 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Buddy Reviews **Vendor:** Buddy **Category:** [Continuous Delivery Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-delivery-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 211 ## About Buddy Get back your time with Buddy’s delivery pipelines that eliminate repeatable tasks in your daily development. Automatically build & ship web projects on a single git push, on click, or recurrently. Easily define your own delivery process just like you build a house of bricks: from builds and tests, to deployments, custom scripts, and website monitoring. Bring the newest tech to your team’s stack with native Docker support: containers, microservices, Kubernetes deployments, and more. ## Buddy Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users highlight the **ease of use** of Buddy, allowing setup of pipelines without prior CI/CD skills. (3 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive and easy-to-use pipeline management** of Buddy, enabling seamless deployment without extensive skills. (3 reviews) - Users praise Buddy for its **easy deployment process** , allowing seamless environment setup in just a few clicks. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **clean and intuitive interface** of Buddy, making setup simple even without CI/CD skills. (2 reviews) - Users love the **intuitive automation** features of Buddy, making deployment workflows easy and accessible for everyone. (1 reviews) - Automation Efficiency (1 reviews) - Automation Testing (1 reviews) - Deployment Automation (1 reviews) - Deployment Ease (1 reviews) - Ease of Implementation (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Buddy to be **expensive** , especially due to limiting build minutes and concurrencies for the free tier. (2 reviews) - Users note the **limited features** of Buddy's free tier, making it challenging for budget-conscious projects. (2 reviews) - Users note that the **limited free access** of Buddy restricts build minutes and concurrency, hindering new users. (2 reviews) - Users note **pricing issues** with Buddy's free tier, which limits build minutes and concurrencies for new users. (2 reviews) - Users find the **limiting build minutes and concurrencies** of Buddy's free tier a challenge for beginners and hobbyists. (1 reviews) - Users find the documentation useful but desire **more guidance for inexperienced users** in setting up CI/CD pipelines. (1 reviews) - Limited Functionality (1 reviews) - Users find the **documentation lacking detail** , wishing for more best practices and examples for less experienced teams. (1 reviews) - Users find that while Buddy's documentation is helpful, there is a lack of **guidance for beginners** in setting up pipelines. (1 reviews) ## Buddy Reviews ### 1. It's ridiculously simple to get started **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy is very easy to use, which means there's a low barrier to entry into CI/CD. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Yet to find something that I dislike about it. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I want to test scripts written on my local machine on other environments I don't have to stress about moving the work. ### 2. It just works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James B. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Setting up projects and importing from git sources like GitHub is incredibly easy and quick, along with being able to intelligently detect which language you're deploying, showing you shortcuts for commands to get it out there as quickly as possible. In a few minutes after pushing a change to a repo, it's reflected on my servers just like that. Simply an amazing tool **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Not sure what there is to dislike honestly, however some of the documentation is a little daunting to first-time users of CI/CD tools. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick deployments to infrastructure without needing to constantly remote in and play with commands or git to get things working. ### 3. One of most impressive, easy to configure and responsive automation platform. I Love it! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheher Yar Khan K. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Buddy?** The most interesting thing I found in Buddy Works is easy configuration and quick deployment **What do you dislike about Buddy?** To be honest, there is nothing that I did not like about it. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continous integration and continuous deployment ### 4. Buddy is the best CI/CD platform I've ever used! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Irfan P. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** We can set up a pipeline easily with GUI and YAML. It's very easy to learn how to configure the pipeline in Buddy. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Sometimes the GUI mode is buggy but it can be solved in YAML **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create CI/CD deployment application to kubernetes cluster. The benefit is buddy is very easy to use and easy to learn for everyone ### 5. Takes the pain out of automation and deployments... Oh, and it's FAST!!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nate F. | WordPress Expert, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I love the clean interface, the number of integrated services, and the way I can check the status of all my deployments easily and quickly. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** There isn't much to dislike about this platform... Maybe there are too many integrations?? 😂 **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** You should give it a shot, just five minutes. If you need more time, then it's a good thing you're using Buddy, because you probably have an intense workflow that could benefit from a product like this! **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly there's an automation problem solved here. Buddy gives an awesome to the user so I/we don't have to mess with config files and formatting. ### 6. Great tool for automate process easily and with a pretty UI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vicente G. | Co-Founder & CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** The clean and pretty UI, you can start to automate your deployment process without a lot of previous knowledge (like another old tools) **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I use in my company a paid plan, and I'm delighted. I'm also using Buddy in the free version on personal projects **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast automation of the deployment process, ### 7. A great LoCode solution to DevOps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael A. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy allows our developers to create pipelines for building and deploying applications rapidly. The user interface and dashboards give our development team visibility of the state of the project builds and deployments across multiple environments, including development, staging, and production. Buddy has excellent integration with Slack and other tools, which increase transparency across the business. As a bonus, we use Buddy as an uptime tool as pipelines can run on a schedule every minute. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** The Buddy UI is incompatible with Buddy YAML configurations, which makes it a little difficult to keep projects consistent and means the pipelines are not in version control. It would also be nice to have support for split artifact-based builds and deployments similar to Atlassian Bamboo. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Quickly putting together pipelines during development. - The UI makes it very easy to visualize the process and helps to track down issues. ### 8. Given just a try and now I like it. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hitesh R. | Co Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** In a single word, it is the "Interface" that I like much more compared to any other website that I used to use daily. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing much as of now. I was only trying PHP application without me using automated unit testing. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to make the flow automated and also an option to revert the published version in case something goes wrong. ### 9. CI is easy when I've got a Buddy by my side! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dani B. | Junior Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy really makes CI effortless. I'm a new developer, and it's very easy to spend more time reading documentation for tools than actually shipping code. Buddy isn't like that. Pipelines are easy to set up and manage, I can automate all steps of the build/deploy process, and it's all SO easy. Everything I've done so far has been on the free plan also. Once my portfolio grows, I won't hesitate in paying for the next tier, as the amount of time and stress Buddy saves is totally worth it. 👍 **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I haven't really experienced any major issues so far. On the free plan you do have some data/storage limits that you can run into, but I think my issues were caused by my own lack of knowledge/experience to be honest as once I had cleared the cache and corrected a few of the steps, everything worked as expected. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Give it a go. It's seriously SO easy. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making CI easy. Previously I had to manually build, upload and deploy changes for a couple of hobby projects of mine, but now, I just push the commits to GitHub, wait a few seconds and like magic, it works! Buddy has saved me lots of time and means I can iterate and deploy faster. ### 10. Very user-friendly and soothing to use! Love it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faraz A. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy simplifies the automation workflow for our apps. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Price per concurrent pipelines is a bit expensive, but On-premise solution can remedy it. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a few web apps that run on multiple servers behind a load-balancer. Each time we used to have an update, we needed to update the source code by ssh into each server. Buddy automates this for us. ### 11. Great even for people just starting out **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian T. | Website Designer/Developer/Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I personally like that Buddy is fairly straightforward to use. It doesn't take countless tutorials to just get started. My absolute favorite thing is that Buddy actually has a free plan so that small developers like myself don't have to make a big commitment just to try out the tool. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** My dislikes aren't too bad since I did get used to them using Buddy after using it a couple of times. However, if I would have to say something it would be that some improvements to the UX would be great for first-time users. It didn't take long to figure out where everything was located, but I can imagine some users struggling a bit at first to get used to where everything was located **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** There wasn't a real problem that I was trying to solve while using Buddy, besides wanting to learn how to become more efficient in my development process. Being able to automate certain tasks allowed me to have more time to focus on what I actually wanted to do, which is developing software. ### 12. I can't imagine working on development without Buddy now **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Argzon H. | UI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It is so easy to set up any pipeline with their pre-defined actions. Also, a lot of options to make the pipeline as you want. And using a GUI made my job pretty easy. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** It really isn't anything that I don't like. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Writing a YAML file is very hard and needs a lot of experience. With Buddy.works you will only work on GUI which really helps a lot in preparing the pipelines you need. It is so easy to separate your pipelines in projects filter them with labels and so on. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a lead developer for multi projects and setting up pipelines properly and in a very fast way helped the process of web development a lot. I can easily track my deployments, set conditions for pipelines to run, notifications, etc. ### 13. The Perfect CI/CD system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chase G. | Freelance Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It's powerful, flexible, and possibly most importantly, highly visual and intuitive. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Getting your repo webhooks configured correctly can be a bit tricky --especially if you're not the repo owner. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating testing and multiple deployments for websites into a single pipeline has shaved tangible time off my workweek. ### 14. It does the Job!!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor N. | Frontend Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I'm able to create all kinds of pipelines with an incredible simplicity **What do you dislike about Buddy?** With a free account, we are limit to few actions because of the free space that we have available, and every time we run the deploy, we have to clear everything before. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Awesome tool!!! **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** An automatic deploy to the server every time I commit changes to GitHub ### 15. Great solution for small and big companies! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** René L. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It's really easy to get started with Buddy, pipelines are very easy to setup and in a few minutes you got yourself a automated deployment server **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Not much, it's only unfortunate that Google Chat is missing in the notification methods. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Buddy is a relief for every developer. It's very easy to setup a pipeline for a server and there are tons for possibilities on how and when to build or deploy your website. We use Buddy for every website/shop since 2020 and it saved us lots of time! **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buddy is a relief for every developer. It's very easy to setup a pipeline for a server and there are tons for possibilities on how and when to build or deploy your website. We use Buddy for every website/shop since 2020 and it saved us lots of time! ### 16. Very flexible, great UX **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessio R. | Managing Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** We've been using Buddy for a limited time (no more than 2 months in production), but so far I'm impressed. It's easy to setup, very flexible, its UI is very easy and the custom support has been very responsive and helpful. Docker support is great. We haven't tried some of the most advanced features yet (tests, etc), but it looks like they'll be easy to setup just as well. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Documentation website is a bit messy - it looks more like a collection of articles rather than an organized KB, and I'd like the inline help to be expanded, rather. Also, I'd love for iOS/Android apps to be released. No major cons though! **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating our releases in general, and especially building Docker containers and pushing them to Amazon ECS with one click. ### 17. Sly's Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sylvester A. | Network System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** They make the ci/cd process so easy. I have used a lot of ci/cd products, and this is the best. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I wish they supported docker-compose but hope it comes soon. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a new company, and sitting up auto deployment has been a breeze. ### 18. Super easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denys R. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** - Easy to use - Super fast in compare with Github Actions/CircleCI/Bitrise - Intuative dashboard - Cool support Configuration with GUI or yaml file. I prefer using GUI because with it I can built any scenario i need. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Well, everything is excellent. Only on one thing, I can complain - price. But i suppose its ok for unlimited time of use. So no major disadvantages. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previous CI/CD services were a bit complicated to use. This one is perfect for teams with no DevOps specialist. ### 19. A real gamechanger **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy is an excellent tool for any developer to have in their arsenal. I am still very much a beginner in the way of DevOps and making pipelines. However, with their user-friendly GUI and helpful and friendly support team, I have quickly found my way into making tasty pipelines with my hosting solutions. It's been a great learning curve! **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I think the only downside to Buddy is the steep jump between the free and the paid plan. It would be nice to see a more basic paid plan that would bridge the price gap. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buddy works well with docker and you can easily take the hassle out of building lengthy yaml files with their intuitive yaml builder. ### 20. The best solution for SAS products **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas P. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy is simple, easy to learn and very efficient, my company works with a SAAS e-commerce platform and Buddy came into our lives to save time and money. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing is perfect, Buddy has no a integration with Magento for fast deploy and we have to adapt. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We problem before the Buddy was, how to continuous delivery easy, the answer is, with Buddy, the facilities for create a routine of deploy send notifications and maintain all in order, saves a lot of time and money and resolve our problem. ### 21. Buddy takes the guess work out of CI **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy makes integration insanely simple! **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Documentation could be improved. But other than that, no issues! **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** With our Tech stack being a little 'random', it's nice to have a tool that works well with everything from .Net to React. ### 22. The easiest CI/CD tool I've ever seen **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rehmat A. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I am using Buddy to automate the testing and deployment of code on my several clients' projects. I am a freelance developer and Buddy saves me a lot of time when it comes to deploying code to different environments. The simplicity of the platform allowed me to use it even when I was new to CI/CD. If you aren't comfortable configuring complex CI/CD flows, Buddy should be your first and last option. Highly recommended. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing to dislike about Buddy. I simply love it :) **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing and CI/CD. ### 23. Simplifies the complicated parts of deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cara G. | Head of Web Development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy has saved countless hours of deployment set up. It is the Zapier of DevOps - making it easy to connect together multiple services to run seamlessly together. It's the tool I wish I had 10 years ago. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** The UI could be a little easier to navigate between projects, but otherwise no complaints. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using it to deploy a headless Wordpress instance to static generated site, and for deployment of changes from our git repo to live site for other Wordpress sites we run. We've also used it to set up automated backups for our development server and save any updated files with versioning to Google Drive. ### 24. Underestimated CI tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ingo K. | Fullstack Software Artist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Simple but powerful CI with intuitive UI. It can do everything you want to accomplish. From simple ssh or bash scripts to cloud operations. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** The OAuth 2.0 integration for Google can be improved. Also copying the Service account json to every action is a bit tedious. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Buddy to build Docker images and publish them to Google ECR. Also configuring Helm charts to run in Google EKS. On top of that some bash scripts and traditional CI is used for the infrastructure. ### 25. Buddy makes your life easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fredy L. | Board Member, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy is as powerful as simple, it has helped my team to automate multiple tasks that required supervision of the dev/ops team **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Sometimes its easy to get lost on that many options **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** From getting regular users to login and automate testing scripts to migrate data and files across multiple environments buddy can do a lot more than simple deployments ### 26. Made my deployment (and rollbacks) extremely easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam S. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** The ease of use. It's trivial to create a deployment pipeline. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** As of yet, I have no complaints with Buddy. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build, deployment, testing, rollbacks ### 27. Beginner friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kavan M. | Junior Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy has great documentation which helped me, essentially a beginner to DevOps set up my own automated CI/CD pipelines. Love the free option. This helps junior developers like me immensely. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** When I adopt a SAAS platform I would like to see myself using it for the long term. I would like to see a slightly cheaper option in the Pro level. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Buddy will be a good choice for your project(s) and you will not regret it. Give it a try. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Buddy I don’t have to worry about FTPing my files every time I want to push up a change. Instead it’s very easy once I set up the pipeline. I feel like I can concentrate on developing more without worrying about how to get my code out there. ### 28. Anyone can start using Buddy - ideal for startups and small teams. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishabh L. | DevOps Engineer **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Anyone can work and maintain the pipelines on buddy. The developers can maintain the pipelines, rotate keys, change deployment locations, without the explicit interference by the DevOps team. Also, with very fine access control, there is little chance of accidents to happen. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** When we switch from YAML configuration to GUI, the YAML takes precedence over GUI and all the pipelines made via GUI are lost. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run almost everything that can be automated on Buddy. The best part is, we can run the scripts locally, inside Buddy, instead of spinning another server for it. This makes things very easy to use and maintain. ### 29. Simple CI with fast setup **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avery D. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It's extremely simple and straightforward to set up your deployment. It takes just a few clicks and has very easy to use UI. As someone who hates configuring things in a YML file it's extremely helpful to have everything be done and setup with integrations with third-party platforms like Amazon or Slack. They provide a huge amount of integrations and you can request them and it seems they are really responsive on the support side. Overall Buddy is my favorite tool for CI at the moment and will be using it for my next few projects. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** The cost could be a little lower and the build speeds could be faster but there is nothing extremely dislikable. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use buddy to do deployments based on commits sent to different branches. This has made setting up beta and qe servers extremely easy and made my only deployment workflow to be submitting a PR to a specific branch. ### 30. Easy to use even if you are not a devops **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samuel K. | Senior Javascript Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It's interface and simplicity. It's the first time I'm using a UI to automatically deploy my apps and this was so easy. Has lots of built-in integrations, so it was very easy to setup and so far, very reliable. Currently on my pipeline to deploy a small project. Also their support is outstanding. One day I got an email from them, telling they found some potential error in my repo, using their lint. I could check and fix that, but I definitely wasn't expecting them to be so proactive, specially because I'm on the free plan. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Well, I've been using it for the past 4 months and it looks like it's still pretty new, so there are things they still don't have and yet, looks like they are implementing new features very fast. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** If you are testing something and don't want to go heads first on paying some app, give Buddy a try. It's very easy to use and so far, has been everything I needed. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy continuous deployment for small application. ### 31. Best ever CD/CI service I have used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tue T. | Freelance consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It is fast, easy to get up and running. Have used different competitors over the years, but this is by far the easiest and fastest **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing really, have everything I need.. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed a one place to generate and deploy my docker images. ### 32. Buddy does work! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Ease of use, ability to streamline our team deployment process. We were using Beanstalk which seems archaic compared to this. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** This is really such a minor thing, but the UI and aesthetic of the admin could use a big upgrade, or make it more simplistic. The layout is great and it's very functional, so this isn't a UX concern. Purely a design critique. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Just do it. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment process was fragmented and unreliable. This really changed the game for us. ### 33. Buddy-CI Mctekk review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wilkins O. | Devops, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I like the flexibility, and the amount of actions that can be executed, I also really like the amount of integrations that you can do with other technological solutions. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** The sandbox server is not very flexible, and I don't like that it doesn't support custom nginx conf. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pipelines from every custom projects. ### 34. Great place to start your CI/CD journey **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Enrique E. | DevOps, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy made it easy to start creating CI/CD pipelines, very intuitive interface and great integration. So far very happy with it's functionality and it's working really well with the team. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Lot's to love, very little to dislike. The only snags I ran into were from my own misunderstanding of how our Bitbucket ownership was setup. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to standardize and automate our deployment. ### 35. Good and fast service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahmoud A. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** integration with almost every cloud service. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** With the rapid update of the app, sometimes the app stops working for updates for 1-3 mins. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD it's perfect. ### 36. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zacery T. | Sr. AWS Devops Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Easy of use and great UI. Great set of integrations! **What do you dislike about Buddy?** There is nothing I really dislike about the product. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helpded solve the problems of getting the right code base delivered to the correct environments. ### 37. Fantastic feature-set backed by a very intuitive & delightful UI. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I like that 100% of the time I have a task that involves logging into Buddy, I know I won't be let down. The overall UX is so intuitive that I was provisioning and orchestrating processes that I would have historically sought DevOps help for. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I think the trial is a little short. I wasn't fully prepared to try all of my use cases out in the short timeframe they offered but that's more on me. Really stretching here, everything else is fantastic and again, that was my lack of preparation. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Their workflow and feature-set is so solid that you could have spun up a trial account, created a workspace and started CI/CD cycles in the time it took you to read my review. I'm 100% serious. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have to worry about CI/CD... I just focus on what I enjoy doing most, writing application code. The primary benefit is the reduction in anxiety knowing that from a deployment perspective, Buddy is covering it. I just do my thing and it handles all of the rest, I'm happy, users are happy, win win. ### 38. The best ever DevOps tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu G. | Backend Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** * Simplicity * Ease of creating complex integrations in a single step * The UI/UX of dashboard * The level of transparancy of each tasks running and statuses in the pipeline **What do you dislike about Buddy?** * Sometimes the dashboard hangs and updates does not happen realtime. Other than that nothing else I can think about. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** Keep innovating. You guys are doing great. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are doing the complete auto-deployment process using Buddy for all our backend as well as frontend stack. The best benifit I can tell you is as a systems guy, I don't have to worry about deployments of applications once it's configured with Buddy. Buddy takes care of everything. ### 39. Simple and Reliable, for advanced and begginer. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel Z. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** The simplicity to set up any workflow is incredible... I used to get tired just to think about other CI/CDs which requires a lot of work to get going. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Setup complete test repos are tricky to do. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** It is an awesome service. Just be sure it is affordable for your project. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** For now we have a lot of workflows set-up on buddy. But now I'm trying to setup a test workflow. ### 40. Awesome automation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Buddy?** It is so easy to set up that we build a very simple process in our team and even non-tech people can set up new deployments now. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing to say here. I guess that it is one of the best tools in the market. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous deployment for Shopify stores. Easy to integrate with Shopify. Speed up our version delivery processes. ### 41. Simple, fast, and just works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew F. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy has many pre-configured pipeline actions that made setting up AWS publishing to ECR and Elasticbeanstalk a breeze compared to competitors. Having built in slack integration made it very easy to see deployment progress via a slack CI channel. Buddy has one of the fastest CI that's I've worked with. Spinning up a task takes seconds at most. We saved several minutes on each task by switching to Buddy from GitLab pipelines. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Setting up interactions on multiple pipelines can be confusing. Sometimes the pipelines miss a push to the repository **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved our previous slow ci testing and deployment with the blazing fast buddy works pipelines ### 42. Best Docker-based continuous integration and GUI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 💭 Patrick H. | President, UX Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** We've been using Buddy for years - first with their self-hosted setup, and now with their cloud offering. Buddy has made every step of CI/CD so so easy, and I couldn't imagine using anything else. It integrates with almost everything, and never lets us down. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I wish there were a cheaper option available than what we use, but still very happy with the service - just feel like there is a lot there we are paying for and not using. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying PHP applications, running web pack builds, etc. ### 43. Buddy is fantastic, my go-to for CI/CD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Glen H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Their website is gorgeous and super user friendly. Great for noobs and pros alike. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing really, so far Buddy meets all our needs and more. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a fairly complex Shopify deployment process that would be crazy to code manually. Buddy makes it a breeze, ### 44. Simple yet powerfull CI/CD system, easy to pick up for beginners. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dirk-Jan W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** The best part about Buddy is that its is incredibly easy to pick up on. In no time you have a complete pipeline build in the easy to use UI. Afterwards (if you want to) you can export it to a yml file and put it in your source control. This way its easy to first setup your pipeline but still have the definition in your source control! You create those pipelines by chaining actions, luckily there are a lot of actions available for almost every situation imaginable. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** We noticed that a few options from the UI aren't available through the yml configuration, not sure if this is still the case but we haven't really used those features anyway. It is a bit pricy but we work for customers so they get to pay for our usage. Last time I tried there was no docker compose support, however having a quick look at the docs there seems to be some progress in this? **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Normally we always used Travis for our CI and Heroku to handle the CD part. However the Heroku servers are pretty limited so we had to look for another solution. In the end we now run on digitalocean but we lost the CD part we were used to, Buddy managed to solve this and also took over as our CI tool since it is so much quicker than a lot of other tools around! ### 45. It just works! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex B. | Software Engineer, Platform Interfaces, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy actually cares about the Developer and User experience! It feels like an easy-to-use GUI for DevOps. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Nothing so far! I should note that I'm just starting off with it. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to use another service for a client's site I barely update. I went to login and realized they deleted my account for inactivity. I was already thinking about Buddy for other projects but that sealed it. ### 46. Make devops and developers to work smoothly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay K. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Buddy's GUI is really awesome and to create pipeline's using Buddy is really really simple. For a beginner who doesnt understand CICD much, start using Buddy and you will get to know everything related to CICD in a day. Buddy is also constantly improving and new features everyday. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** For startups, they can reduce the price because they are more prone to pipeline failures and need more focus on pipelines so when they grow, their pipelines grow. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I started using it, I brought this to 3 other organisations. It solved the most value-able part for me at least - "TIME" ### 47. Painless CI/CD, even for beginners **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerry K. | Master Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Ease of use Great github integration Decent build space **What do you dislike about Buddy?** More docs/examples would be great. Although very beginner-friendly, some of the details, esp. related to build env. are not 100% clear **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** If you want a painless, containerised CI/CD solution that integrates will with lots of existing technology. Buddy is worth a look **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating build of firmware that requires a complex toolchain that I really don't want to have to manually deploy ### 48. A powerful and intuitive CI/CD tool with a beautiful, non-intimidating UI. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** * Beautiful, simple, and intuitive interface - Whether you are a novice or pro, you'll be able to create pipelines in no time. I compare this to the UI seen in Digital Ocean vs AWS. * Resources and documentation - Stuck on how to accomplish a task? More than likely, Buddy has already written a demo on the exact thing you are trying to do. Also, their support is top notch. * Actions and integrations - Buddy provides the building blocks you need to rule the CI/CD world. Don't let this beautiful app fool you, it's powerful! **What do you dislike about Buddy?** Some documentation shows how to accomplish a specific task, however don't blindly copy that into your pipelines. It may not be optimized for production (ie: running PHP's built in development server). Additionally, I originally signed up for a free account, however was unable to build anything useful with their free-tier limits. I ultimately, had to upgrade to a paid plan to utilize the service. **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** If you prefer using the UI of Digital Ocean over AWS, then you will like using Buddy. It's UI provides novices with a non-intimidating way to build powerful CI/CD pipelines. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buddy enables our organization to run CI/CD across multiple environments. It provides the building blocks required to put complex pipelines together. Our organization has realized speedy deployments that we can count on. Additionally, we've built in test runners to ensure branches are always passing appropriate checks. ### 49. Fantastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdulazeem M. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** Every bash script or YML steps converted into GUI which is nice I love it **What do you dislike about Buddy?** till now there is not, but I think everything will be nice **Recommendations to others considering Buddy:** It is easy to use it and very well documentation. I am zero experience in building pipelines or CI/CD but with buddy.works everything was easy to use. Really I love you guys. you solved my nightmare issue. Thank a lot :) **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD pipelines ### 50. Simple to use Service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Buddy?** I found it intuitive to use and never needed to request help from their support teams. Provides a good set of functionality on the free tier for small teams, projects or simply evaluation. I am pleased with the ability to manage pipeline as code or simply configure via their UI. Authentication with Github a plus for me. **What do you dislike about Buddy?** I was unable to run my golang builds on the free tier, but took the plunge given my satisfaction with the remainder of the features. Am glad I did. **What problems is Buddy solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wanted a hosted CI/CD solution for my freelance work. This has enabled me to just that. 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