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Pipelines: Your Doorway to Continuous Development

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Re: Pipelines: Your Doorway to Continuous Development

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This initially came off as a new way to more efficiently manage project development and builds, but now it seems like it's just another CI platform. Or am I missing something?

Hi Chris, Why do you think it's just another CI platform now? :)

What does this do that CircleCI doesn't? Why should I switch from CircleCI to this?

Re: Pipelines: Your Doorway to Continuous Development

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Hi Chris, Why do you think it's just another CI platform now? :)

What does this do that CircleCI doesn't? Why should I switch from CircleCI to this?

Basically the speed and ease of configuration. You're able to set up and clone your whole environment in 15-20 minutes + we put special pressure on shortening the build-test-deploy to minimum: you can create a pipeline that will reflect your Circle-CI workflow and compare how long it takes to finish.

Re: Pipelines: Your Doorway to Continuous Development

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I use CircleCI and I am very satisfied. But I will take a look on Buddy, it seems more easy to configure, apparently. CircleCI don't have a clear documentation about all the possibilites the service can do.

Thanks Ed, I guarantee it won't take long to reproduce your workflow with Buddy's pipelines. As for the documentation, you can find it here: https://buddy.works/help

Re: Pipelines: Your Doorway to Continuous Development

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Hi oblio, Thanks for pointing out the errors, we'll fix that. We've been around for over a year with half a year of beta period before that. The whole thing is really fast and stable: we chose Docker containers to run builds which ensures speed and compatibility across the whole team + contrary to some other CI/CD software we only deploy changed files which results in really fast deployments. What languages/framework…

Generally Java at work but Python and .NET when I get the chance. Is there any chance for Windows Docker containers? I know it's tricky and could be costly...

We've got dedicated build actions for Java, .NET/.NET Core and Python that you can use to build and test your app. What do you mean by Windows Docker containers exactly?

Re: Pipelines: Your Doorway to Continuous Development

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Shameless plug.

Interestingly, we open sourced Pipelines[1] a week ago.

We felt a lot of the automation platforms out there are still very focused on a narrow "clone from GitHub/BitBucket → build → test → deploy" use case.

The only alternatives we had for more complicated scenarios were things like Jenkins. I'm not a fan. With Pipelines, you get up and running in 2 minutes with:

    pip install pipelines
We use Ansible, Docker and a few other tools that just need to be easily run and orchestrated. We also wanted to have logs and letting colleagues easily trigger things from Slack/Web UI.

We're adding a few plugin (Docker, scheduler, LDAP, GitHub login, SMS...) for some of our needs. Would be interesting to see how this works for other people.

1: https://github.com/Wiredcraft/pipelines

Re: Pipelines: Your Doorway to Continuous Development

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Generally Java at work but Python and .NET when I get the chance. Is there any chance for Windows Docker containers? I know it's tricky and could be costly...

We've got dedicated build actions for Java, .NET/.NET Core and Python that you can use to build and test your app. What do you mean by Windows Docker containers exactly?

A container in which you can run Windows processes. I'll be honest and admit that I haven't done my homework on this and I don't even know if anyone does this.
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