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What is CloudBees Codeship?
Codeship from CloudBees is a build automation platform from the Austrian company of the same name.
Codeship is a handy little cross-platform CI/CD tool
Review of Codeship from the perspective of overall reliability in a small development team
Why we use Codeship
Life is easer with Codeship!
Since we started using Codeship our deployments are more faster.
Simple and Intuitive Tool for Continuous Delivery
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What is CloudBees Codeship?
Codeship from CloudBees is a build automation platform from the Austrian company of the same name.
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English |
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Codeship has been widely used by users to implement CI/CD workflows for various clients, showcasing its versatility in handling different cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem servers. By utilizing Codeship's managed service on the cloud, users can eliminate the need to maintain their own instance of it, relieving them of the associated maintenance headaches. Companies have found value in including Codeship as part of their suite of devops tools to streamline and expedite the deployment process to clients' development, staging, and production servers.
Many users have turned to Codeship when starting new projects, as it offers a quick and efficient way to deploy from version control systems to staging or production environments. The seamless integration with Bitbucket and GitHub has saved users a significant amount of time with deployments and tests. Small research and development projects benefit from Codeship's simplicity in implementing CI and CD strategies, ensuring that acceptance and functional tests are run before shipping code to production or staging servers.
Development departments heavily rely on Codeship for continuous deployment automation of their main public websites and other internal web applications. It serves as an essential tool for these teams to ensure the reliability of code before it is sent to production. By using Codeship, IT departments can maintain confidence in their code quality and reliability throughout the entire development process. Overall, Codeship provides valuable solutions across different industries and project sizes, catering to the diverse needs of its users.
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(1-4 of 4)Codeship is a handy little cross-platform CI/CD tool
- Inter-cloud deployments
- Integration with different version control providers
- Easy-to-use UI
- Quick configuration
- Better capabilities for deploying CI/CD pipelines as code
- Better support for enterprise-grade customers
- Better logical grouping capability for projects
- Inter-cloud capability
- Integration with different version control systems
- Ability to deploy same codebase to multiple cloud providers
- Managed service on the cloud
- Reduced CI/CD server set up and maintenance time by 100%
- Speeded up creation of deployment pipelines by 15%
- Decreased build issue debugging time by 5%
Review of Codeship from the perspective of overall reliability in a small development team
- Codeship provides a set of tools for quickly creating and building our deployment artifacts and push them to the designated servers.
- Codeship's hooks allows our developers to simply push tags from our git repositories to initiate a deployment of code to a server. No one outside of the devops team needs any expertise to get our code packages delivered.
- Codeship allows us to tie in behat and unit tests easily to prevent delivery of buggy code.
- The only real gripe I have with Codeship is with regards to its single sign-on experience within the website. Occasionally I accidentally try to sign in with my GitHub account instead of my Bitbucket account. By the time I realize the error, it is stuck in a transition state that it does not let me "sign out of". This is fixed by clearing cookies, but it would be nice to see some sort of sign out option before you are fully signed in.
- Faster code pushes with less headaches has led to better efficiency as well as reduced frustration within the development team.
Why we use Codeship
- Quick setup for continuous integration: push to a specific branch and run deployment scripts to see updates on the corresponding environment
- We can quickly see if there is something wrong: whenever we make changes, Codeship runs the whole build and then tests the code before deploying to production. The default setting is to run build and test on all branches, so there is usually no feature branch with a red build that we are not aware of
- Deployment scripts are very easy to configure and with the limited (but powerful) setup options, we usually have a clear process that describes the deployment. This way everything is clear, even for engineers new to the project.
- I would like to see a little bit more than the green/red status. If there are tests, it would be good to see how many have failed on a red build.
- To improve build times (and reduce feedback times), it would be good to see how long build, tests, and deployment take over time. An overview like that could very easily point to potential areas of improvement. I think Codeship users do not want to bother with the build process, but, if there is anything to improve and increase productivity it's very unlikely that users wouldn't want to do this.
- We have a few small projects with different developers and Codeship shows everyone clearly, if something work, or if it doesn't.
- In one small project with a team of three developers, we have configured two builds and it takes 2-5 minutes for everyone on the team to push changes to an infrastructure handling a little over 3M users.
A declarative build configuration (as in CircleCI) is also possible with Pipeline builds, but for now, we prefer the simple and clear scripted solution provided by Codeship.
Simple and Intuitive Tool for Continuous Delivery
- Build Automation: It's no longer necessary to run many other tools along with the git push command.
- Continuous Integration: We were finally able to achieve K.I.S.S. [keep it simple, stupid] methodology at our development environment.
- Continuous Deployment: If everything looks good, it no longer needs to be sitting there, waiting for some other bureaucratic task sequence to be run in order to get deployed.
- UX: The overall UX is not bad, but it still needs a lot of improvement.
- It took me quite a while to realize that in order to switch projects I needed to press my current project name so a dropdown would appear.
- Integration with Bitbucket is somewhat hidden from the users's hands. Got to make some improvements there.
- Having the code tested thoroughly. While it's obviously a part of the job that still requires the developer to sit down and to actually have some decent and thorough tests implemented, by using codeship we were able to guarantee 100% that our code was being tested each and every time it got commited and pushed onto our repositories. Leading to a faster, shorter and sure implementation iterative cycle.
- Fewer 'man in the middle' processes which required more steps and people involved just to get the code shipped onto our deployment servers.
- Almost inexistent learning curve. Codeship is simple to use and very intuitive. Nobody in our development department had a hard time figuring out how to have it properly configured for each new project created there.