Review of Codeship from the perspective of overall reliability in a small development team
November 15, 2018
Review of Codeship from the perspective of overall reliability in a small development team
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Codeship
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.
- 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.
Codeship has been easier for our devops team to work with as far as making delivery plans and build scripts. Anecdotally, it has been more stable over time, cutting down on time investigating why some random part of the delivery process has broken. I am not sure why this is, but it has been by far the most hands off tool we have used to deliver code.