CloudBees Codeship Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9 out of 10

Score

9 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

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.

Reviews

6 Reviews

Codeship is a handy little cross-platform CI/CD tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Codeship to manage our deployment and continuous integration pipelines across different environments, version control hosts, and technology stacks. We have implemented CI/CD workflows for various clients using Codeship, and its versatility in being able to handle different cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and even plain old on-prem servers has made it an invaluable tool that can be applied to all requirements. The fact that it is a managed service on the cloud removes the headache of having to maintain our own instance of it.

Pros

Inter-cloud deployments
Integration with different version control providers
Easy-to-use UI
Quick configuration

Cons

Better capabilities for deploying CI/CD pipelines as code
Better support for enterprise-grade customers
Better logical grouping capability for projects

Likelihood to Recommend

Codeship is extremely well suited for projects that are version controlled on public hosting such as Github or Bitbucket, and for situations where you need to pick up code from these systems and deploy it to different cloud environments. For example, we had two projects for the same client that were hosted on Github and needed to be deployed to AWS and Heroku. The native CI/CD tools of these cloud environments could not provide a holistic solution to deploy to both environments the way Codeship did.

Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology in Information Technology at Virtusa (10,001+ employees)

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6 years of experience

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Review of Codeship from the perspective of overall reliability in a small development team

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 15, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At our company we use Codeship as part of our suite of devops tools to deliver web sites/apps to our various cloud servers. It has helped significantly streamline and speed up our deployment process to any of our clients' servers for development, staging, and actual production servers.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Codeship is very well suited to teams that have specialized devops members along with other specialized developers. It lets the other developers focus on what they do best, without having to learn another technology stack. This has cut down on a lot of headaches at our company with developers needing to deploy code to various different hosting services across different content management systems. The experience to push code is essentially the same for a developer no matter what the underlying technology is.

Alex Lada

Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at Liberty Concepts (11-50 employees)

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2 years of experience

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Why we use Codeship

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 10, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Codeship for most new projects, if we want to have a quick process to deploy from our version control system to staging or production environments. Codeship setup is quick and part of our common project bootstrap process: you can say that a project is correctly setup, if we can push code and have an updated infrastructure a few minutes later.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

If your project is hosted on GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket or something similar and you want to have a quick setup with CI, you should definitely use Codeship. The setup is quick and builds are running very quickly

Kariem Hussein

CTO in Information Technology at Trayn (11-50 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Life is easer with Codeship!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 30, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm using Codeship for continuous integration and deployment of my personal front end and node projects. Codeship integrates great with Bitbucket and GitHub. It's saves a lot of time with deploys and tests.

Pros

Easy and fast deployment
A lot of tool integrations (Slack, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab)
Getting tests to run is fast and easy

Cons

Copeship is an external service, I can't install it inside our company's private network
I can't use it for free for my private repos
No open source support

Likelihood to Recommend

Codeship is great for deploying open source personal projects, but it can't be used for internal projects. It's really hard to convince a manager to use an external tool.

Maxim Milovanov

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at EPAM Systems (10,001+ employees)

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2 years of experience

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Since we started using Codeship our deployments are more faster.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 9, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Basically we use Codeship for continuous deployment automation of our main public website and other internal web applications. Codeship is used by our IT department to ensure our code is reliable before sending it to production.

Pros

Pretty easy to set up.
Great documentation.
Can be integrated with top tech companies.

Cons

User Interface.

Likelihood to Recommend

Codeship it is a great tool for testing code before deployment to production.

Jose Perez Prol

Information Technology in Information Technology at Vertilux Ltd. (201-500 employees)

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1 year of experience

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Simple and Intuitive Tool for Continuous Delivery

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Codeship is used for simple CI and CD strategies for our small research and development projects. Whenever a new research project is 'bootstrapped' we instantly launch a git repository along with a codeship instance for the project thereof. There, we create our strategies for making sure our acceptance and functional tests are run before the code gets shipped onto production or onto a staging server. It's solely used by our development department, specifically by those involved in the research and development tasks.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is seemingly easy to use and has tons of different integrations. It also provides me a neat "trick" to skip the integration whenever it's necessary; simply by using a --skip-ci comment along with my git commits. It's easy to track the bug and promptly have it fixed, so it has my sped my development cycle a great deal. The overall UX is not bad, but it certainly needs some improvement. It needs to have the most repetitive tasks more 'hands on' than it is actually being displayed. Although I find it to be a very beautiful UX, it's a little hidden.

Claudio Fernando Maciel

Sr. Software Developer in Research & Development at CONSLOG - Construction Software (11-50 employees)

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2 years of experience

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Simple and Intuitive Tool for Continuous Delivery

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Claudio Fernando Maciel

Sr. Software Developer in Research & Development at CONSLOG - Construction Software (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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