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CircleCI is a huge help to quickly bootstrap any project with Continuous Integration
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI is able to configure build automatically for most popular stacks like Java, Python, Node.js, etc.
At the same time, custom configuration can be added easily any time.
At the same time, custom configuration can be added easily any time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Docker support isn't great, but they're trying to fix it with CircleCI 2.0 (currently in beta).
Outages happen (but rarely) and it's really hard to understand why some of the builds are suddenly slow.
Outages happen (but rarely) and it's really hard to understand why some of the builds are suddenly slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Iteration speed
- Time to ship a single feature
- Continuous Integration / Delivery
- Time to ship a single feature
- Continuous Integration / Delivery
We love CircleCI
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use, pretty reliable, pretty customizable
What do you dislike about the product?
We think the dependency caching/cache restoring is slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reliable testing, continuous integration
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get dockerized
Good for small to medium sized projects, not ideal for large projects with artifacts to deploy
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI is easy to set-up. It typically automatically can detect the best way to run most types of projects -- both Ruby on Rails and Java.
What do you dislike about the product?
CircleCI makes it difficult to get a comprehensive view of what tests are running vs. what tests have run on each branch or remote. Compared to other tools I've used -- like TeamCity -- It feels like you really have to go searching to understand what's happening with your builds. It's not easy to see in one place what builds are in the queue, what the success vs. failure trend has been over several builds, or even to understand what builds have run longer than others or why. In addition, CircleCI is not as flexible when it comes to dependencies between projects, or using CircleCI to perform automated deployments. Finally, my biggest concern is that CircleCI seems to perform slowly -- it feels very slow and clunky to go from screen to screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a way to run automated unit tests for all of our projects without having to maintain our own CI servers. CircleCI handles all the infrastructure so we don't have to.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider whether you really need a cloud-based option, or if you would be fine with maintaining your own install. There are other options -- TeamCity, for example -- that are more robust and free for the same size projects that CircleCI is aimed at.
Almost all CI software gets more expensive when you need more build agents, and CircleCI is no exception. Consider the value you're getting when you add more agents on CircleCI vs spending a similar amount of money on other options that are more flexible that have the trade-off of requiring you to maintain your own install.
Almost all CI software gets more expensive when you need more build agents, and CircleCI is no exception. Consider the value you're getting when you add more agents on CircleCI vs spending a similar amount of money on other options that are more flexible that have the trade-off of requiring you to maintain your own install.
Solid product, decent support
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI does what it says, 99% of the time. I mean that in the best way possible. Testing is a tough business with a lot of things prone to go wrong either in the software or the infrastructure supporting the software. While we do occasionally get a false negative, our overall experience with CircleCI is very positive.
We've contacted their support on several occasions, they've been prompt and helpful. Their user forum is also active and useful.
We've contacted their support on several occasions, they've been prompt and helpful. Their user forum is also active and useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The false negatives we get on occasion. But not very often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ensure that our code base do not go sideways with respect to our test suites.
Overall positive experience
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, from github integration and the automatic detection of projects to connecting via ssh to machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think this isn't about the service so much, as my ability to use it but I haven't been too successful getting react native to work yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous integration is my primary use case, and I have realized a lot of confidence in the overall process of my development.
I look forward to integrating results more closely with github.
I look forward to integrating results more closely with github.
CircleCI is awesome for start-up
What do you like best about the product?
- easy to use and setup
- comprehensive documentation
- no effort on maintenance (unlike self-host solution)
- a good default setup (eg. pre-installed MySQL, PgSQL)
- comprehensive documentation
- no effort on maintenance (unlike self-host solution)
- a good default setup (eg. pre-installed MySQL, PgSQL)
What do you dislike about the product?
- Docker support is limited (not support Docker 1.12 yet)
- Lack of customized setting to the build machine (eg. more RAM, more CPU core, custom build runner image)
- Lack of customized setting to the build machine (eg. more RAM, more CPU core, custom build runner image)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We picked CircleCI when we build our CC pipeline. It turns out the CircleCI has strong integration to GitHub, Slack, etc. And it also allows custom integration and it makes our CD pipeline more completed
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- CircleCI is the best for startup and small team without dedicated role for DevOps
Consistent.
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of build steps, ease of configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can be a bit unpredictable at times, and sometimes lags/freezes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use CircleCI for continuous integration and deployments. After a pull request is merged, CircleCI takes care of the rest. This has taken away entirely the random deployment issues that used to come up when we were doing things randomly (environment differences, package version differences, etc.)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the automatic deployment features. It's really nice to only have to merge a pull-request and have that be the final step.
Good Service
What do you like best about the product?
- Mainly speed and flexibility, in how the test platform can be configured to run the workload exactly as I wanted
- Support is actually very good and very technical, easily the best I have seen in a vendor
- Support is actually very good and very technical, easily the best I have seen in a vendor
What do you dislike about the product?
- It is not easy to test systems built against Ubuntu 16.04 (only Ubuntu 14.04 available out of the box)
- Sometimes tests are slow
- Containers are allocated evenly across projects in the organisation, so projects that have slow tests can simply steal containers away from projects that have fast tests, which is unfair.
- Sometimes tests are slow
- Containers are allocated evenly across projects in the organisation, so projects that have slow tests can simply steal containers away from projects that have fast tests, which is unfair.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- We wanted a way to test every commit and not have to run our own Jenkins and babysit it
- We wanted testing run as fast as possible, notifications sent to chat rooms and so on
- So far CircleCI has solved these issues for us
- In addition the build parallelisation feature exposes issues in test ordering and is very good
- We wanted testing run as fast as possible, notifications sent to chat rooms and so on
- So far CircleCI has solved these issues for us
- In addition the build parallelisation feature exposes issues in test ordering and is very good
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Invest time properly to craft a proper CI workflow with CircleCI at the centre instead of treating it as a simple remote RSpec runner.
Easy to use at a good price tag
What do you like best about the product?
- Super simple to setup
- Good price
- Excellent support for deployment
- Good price
- Excellent support for deployment
What do you dislike about the product?
It lacks features found in Jenkins CI such as dependencies and using variables from one build job in another
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CircleCI helps our dev team spend less time on deployment and testing and more time writing code.
Stays out of your way and just works.
What do you like best about the product?
Makes it easy to auto-deploy to Heroku for successful builds.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not sing me to sleep at on long cold nights.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Just wanted to have reliable continuous integration & deployment, as well as automated builds.
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