What is Buddy and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to Buddy
- AWS CodePipeline
CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define. ...
- Google Cloud Build
Cloud Build lets you build software quickly across all languages. Get complete control over defining custom workflows for building, testing, and deploying across multiple environments such as VMs, serverless, Kubernetes, or Firebase. ...
- Spinnaker
Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers. ...
- DeployBot
DeployBot makes it simple to deploy your work anywhere. You can compile or process your code in a Docker container on our infrastructure, and we'll copy it to your servers once everything has been successfully built. ...
- Deployer
A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box ...
- Harness.io
It automates the entire CI/CD process, uses machine learning to protect you when deployments fail, equips you with enterprise-grade security, & simplifies cloud cost visibility, savings, & forecasting without any tagging requirements. ...
- Cloud 66
Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more. ...
- Weaveworks Flux
It is the operator that makes GitOps happen in your cluster. It ensures that the cluster config matches the one in git and automates your deployments. ...
Buddy alternatives & related posts
AWS CodePipeline
- Simple to set up13
- Managed service8
- GitHub integration4
- Parallel Execution3
- Automatic deployment2
- Manual Steps Available0
- No project boards2
- No integration with "Power" 365 tools1
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I'm the CTO of a marketing automation SaaS. Because of the continuously increasing load we moved to the AWSCloud. We are using more and more features of AWS: Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon SNS, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53 and so on.
Our main Database is MySQL but for the hundreds of GB document data we use MongoDB more and more. We started to use Redis for cache and other time sensitive operations.
On the front-end we use jQuery UI + Smarty but now we refactor our app to use Vue.js with Vuetify. Because our app is relatively complex we need to use vuex as well.
On the development side we use GitHub as our main repo, Docker for local and server environment and Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline for Continuous Integration.
We recently added new APIs to Jira to associate information about Builds and Deployments to Jira issues.
The new APIs were developed using a spec-first API approach for speed and sanity. The details of this approach are described in this blog post, and we relied on using Swagger and associated tools like Swagger UI.
A new service was created for managing the data. It provides a REST API for external use, and an internal API based on GraphQL. The service is built using Kotlin for increased developer productivity and happiness, and the Spring-Boot framework. PostgreSQL was chosen for the persistence layer, as we have non-trivial requirements that cannot be easily implemented on top of a key-value store.
The front-end has been built using React and querying the back-end service using an internal GraphQL API. We have plans of providing a public GraphQL API in the future.
New Jira Integrations: Bitbucket CircleCI AWS CodePipeline Octopus Deploy jFrog Azure Pipelines
- GCP easy integration1
- Container based1
- Vendor lock-in2
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We recently moved our main applications from Heroku to Kubernetes . The 3 main driving factors behind the switch were scalability (database size limits), security (the inability to set up PostgreSQL instances in private networks), and costs (GCP is cheaper for raw computing resources).
We prefer using managed services, so we are using Google Kubernetes Engine with Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL for our PostgreSQL databases and Google Cloud Memorystore for Redis . For our CI/CD pipeline, we are using CircleCI and Google Cloud Build to deploy applications managed with Helm . The new infrastructure is managed with Terraform .
Read the blog post to go more in depth.
I use Google Cloud Build because it's my first foray into the CICD world(loving it so far), and I wanted to work with something GCP native to avoid giving permissions to other SaaS tools like CircleCI and Travis CI.
I really like it because it's free for the first 120 minutes, and it's one of the few CICD tools that enterprises are open to using since it's contained within GCP.
One of the unique things is that it has the Kaniko cache, which speeds up builds by creating intermediate layers within the docker image vs. pushing the full thing from the start. Helpful when you're installing just a few additional dependencies.
Feel free to checkout an example: Cloudbuild Example
Spinnaker
- Mature11
- No GitOps2
- Configuration time1
- Management overhead1
- Ease of use1
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LaunchDarkly is almost a five year old company, and our methodology for deploying was state of the art... for 2014. We recently undertook a project to modernize the way we #deploy our software, moving from Ansible-based deploy scripts that executed on our local machines, to using Spinnaker (along with Terraform and Packer) as the basis of our deployment system. We've been using Armory's enterprise Spinnaker offering to make this project a reality.
DeployBot
- Easy setup26
- Seamless integrations20
- Free17
- Rocks10
- Docker1
- Not reliable1
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- Simply to use8
- Easy to customize7
- Easy setup6
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I use Laravel because it's the most advances PHP framework out there, easy to maintain, easy to upgrade and most of all : easy to get a handle on, and to follow every new technology ! PhpStorm is our main software to code, as of simplicity and full range of tools for a modern application.
Google Analytics Analytics of course for a tailored analytics, Bulma as an innovative CSS framework, coupled with our Sass (Scss) pre-processor.
As of more basic stuff, we use HTML5, JavaScript (but with Vue.js too) and Webpack to handle the generation of all this.
To deploy, we set up Buddy to easily send the updates on our nginx / Ubuntu server, where it will connect to our GitHub Git private repository, pull and do all the operations needed with Deployer .
CloudFlare ensure the rapidity of distribution of our content, and Let's Encrypt the https certificate that is more than necessary when we'll want to sell some products with our Stripe api calls.
Asana is here to let us list all the functionalities, possibilities and ideas we want to implement.
- GitOps capability1
- Test Intelligence1
- Feature Flags1
- Autostopping rules for Kubernetes clusters1
- Cloud Cost Management1
- HIO monitor application health and help resolve issues1
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- Easy provisioning13
- Easy scaling11
- Security10
- Great Support8
- Monitoring8
- Container deployments7
- Backup7
- Team access control6
- Turnkey DevOps3
- The right balance of control and ease-of-development3
- Rails Deployments2
- Multicloud1
- Command Line Interface1
- Static Jamstack Site Deployments1
- Best for Rails Applications1
- Great for Startups1
- Low DevOps skills required1
- Easy Deployment1
- Kubernetes deployment1
- Kubernetes Management1
- API1
- Load balancing1
- Jamstack deployments1