It has taken years of experience for the Buddy Team to understand the challenges of DevOps adoption and to design solutions to overcome them.

Here is an up-to-date list of Buddy solutions to these problems:

Mentality & Culture

Team empowerment: support of cross-functional teams

UX designed specifically to lower the entry threshold for all types of team members

Developers: clear & immediate feedback on every change introduced to the codebase

QA: Easy management of all kinds of tests

Project Managers: actionable insight into development processes

Marketing & Sales: know what is being developed, what is being tested and what is to be delivered next

Sophisticated user permissions system for advanced, enterprise-ready workflows

Handling Legacy Infrastructure

The modularity of Buddy enables an evolutionary instead of a revolutionary transition

Changes can be introduced incrementally by adding new pieces to existing delivery pipelines

DevOps teams can adopt changes gradually, reducing downtime to zero by full embracement of Continuous Deployment, without need to put production on hold

App Complexity

Buddy is flexible enough to support both cloud and hybrid solutions

70 dedicated automation steps (actions) and integrations allow companies to develop and transform the application in accordance with their policies and solutions architecture

Support for cutting edge tech such as Docker/Lambda, Functions/Kubernetes or Docker Swarm

Enterprise version of the service hosted behind a firewall on client’s own servers

Buddy Enterprise has dedicated integrations with other popular on-premises tools, such as GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CE/EE or Sentry monitoring

Integration of Tools

Buddy adapts to toolset changes, providing teams with a wide array of integrations to handle their tools of choice

No ecosystem lock in: For example, the most popular code hosting service in the world is GitHub. However, many teams use Bitbucket or GitLab, or host code locally on private servers. Buddy supports all of these without forcing one solution. Another example are deployments. Depending on the delivery workflow, Buddy allows deployments to bare-metal servers and all popular IaaS/PaaS solutions, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Heroku — again, without narrowing the choice

There are over 20+ integrations in Buddy currently, with new ones added on a regular basis depending on popular demand

Test Automation