Buildkite Reviews

The ability to ensure code stays within a controlled environment, even while using a SAAS platform.

Nothing to date. We've been able to deliver on all requirements.

Seriously consider adopting Buildkite to deliver on your CI/CD requirements.

CICD for applications and infrastructure deployment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Very flexible, gives engineers flexibility and ease of use. We can integrate with our existing tools fairly easily due to this flexibility.

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.

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.

Over the years, I've used Travis, Circle-CI, Jenkins, and lots of in-house tools. For me, Buildkite manages the right parts - the controller and dashboard - while giving me the proper control over the runtime environment. Compared to other managed CIs, bringing our own agents lets us customize their resources, secure access, and much more -- and also results in a lower bill since they don't charge us a huge markup over raw cloud prices. Better control, more power, and a great price. Customer support and product improvement have also always been outstanding.

There's not much to dislike. AWS itself is pretty complicated (we use the Elastic CI CloudFormation stack), but that is the cost of doing business. One reasonably big annoyance is gaining access to logs or artifacts hosted in private AWS buckets. Buildkite provides links that don't (can't?) work because they don't go through an AWS login path. That said, we have a script: folks can copy the URL into and then download files with their own CLI auth.

Do it. You won't regret it.

* Pre-commit pipelines that only run tests for code that has changed

* One-click releases, fully vetted by CI

* Automatically triggering complicated integration tests

* Managing multiple different build clusters with different resources, requirements, and permissions

* Autoscaling up and down the build infrastructure according to demand

Our dev infra time has gone way down, our bill is manageable, and our engineers are happy.

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.

Nothing really - it's very reliable, easy to run and affordable!

It allows us to ship code faster and iterate faster so our clients can receive new feature at a reliable clip.

We've used several different CI systems in the past four years, and Buildkite has been the best. Their configuration is highly flexible and the "bring your own infrastructure" aspect allows us to prioritize performance where it matters for us. We've gotten what used to be 12-18 minute builds running in under five minutes with layer caching and parallelization available in Buildkite.

The minorest of quibbles: I've found dynamic pipelines (where the steps in the pipeline are built at pipeline start) to be difficult to write.

We sometimes see errors that appear to be Docker Hub not responding that don't seem easily fixable with retries (< 1% of builds).

Make sure you know Docker. While you can work with Buildkite without Docker, it's much easier to leverage their excellent Docker plugins and Docker-oriented workflow.

Our builds are passing or failing based on the actual test steps and not ephemeral non-code issues! Our pipeline is fast, running in less than half the time we were able to build and test on other CI platforms. We almost never have a "CI crisis" where an engineer needs to stop project work to fix CI issues that block the rest of the team.

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.

Not much I can think of... It seems to have all the features I need.

Using it as a developer, to make sure all the CI steps pass in my branch.

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.

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.

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.

Gives me the flexibility to deploy at scale, in a secure way

Not much at all, buy you have to like YAML

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.