Item: IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Developer Tools

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] is being used in many of the departments of the organization for development, deployment, and delivery. This is being used for handling the continuous integration, as a tool meant for easy deployment of the apps on that of [the] cloud. Helps to support useful tools and also provides space for data storage. It also addresses the Monitoring and controlling billability of the resources.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
[It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
Provides space for the data storage.
[IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.

Cons

For more of an information [tool], the knowledge base could be enhanced.
Cloud application navigation and interface is to be improved for easy [...]
The setup consumes much more time.
This has a high price and has downtime which makes it inconvenient for the user to use.

Most Important Features

Integration to different platforms
Reusability of the templates
Capability for packaging the tools
To run, test and deploy

Return on Investment

This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
Contains great AI capabilities
The documentation needs improvement.
Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.

Alternatives Considered

Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS) and Jira Software

This is recommended over other applications as it has a continuous delivery for non-mission critical applications also which has simple proof of concepts and this is reliable. Also, the integration to different platforms along with cloud implementation is an add-on. The ease of usage and the UI along with the templates it provides makes it helpful and makes it stand different[ly].

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS), GitLab

Likelihood to Recommend

This [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] gives a proper integration with many of the tools. It is also being used for easy setup, stability as well as flexibility, and reuse of templates. This is an integrated platform for ease of access. The setup is being very easy in terms and it also has deployment templates which can help and easily integrate with that of the IBM cloud-based applications, and more of the details for any of the logs would be given for deployment build is failing. It is inappropriate when it comes to debugging the errors at that of the deployment times.

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