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The developer of the initial landing
What do you like best about the product?
This service is directly integrated with GitHub, the developer of the initial landing, CircleCI will scan its application in GitHub containers. After a simple installation process, if you need to guide the developer on how to compile and deploy. Every time the preparation of the code, CircleCI will automatically compile the application, automatic test, if the user is using a similar TestFlight tools, CircleCI will automatically apply the deployment. CircleCI was founded by Biggar Paul and Rohner Allen. Biggar received a PhD in computer science and worked at Mozilla.
What do you dislike about the product?
Simply say. In the first machine node, I specify the JDK version of JDK Oracle 8 (the default is OpenJDK 7). Then added a ANDROID_HOME of the environmental variables point to the location of the SDK Android (TMD, since you are in the document have said SDK Android in this path, it does not give me a good environment variable).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Dependencies node, if it recognizes that you are a Gradle project, by default it is just dependencies gradle. So the result is obvious - at least to put the SDK Build-tools Android installed on it XD
Yes, its own version of Gradle is 1.10, a little old. And habits we should use their wrapper to run the (Travis Ci at this point is very good, if the judge to the wrapper./gradlew will use your project to run, and is not a system gradle command).
Yes, its own version of Gradle is 1.10, a little old. And habits we should use their wrapper to run the (Travis Ci at this point is very good, if the judge to the wrapper./gradlew will use your project to run, and is not a system gradle command).
Engineering lead on an open source project using CircleCI
What do you like best about the product?
I don't have to host it and it's free for open source projects. For a relatively simple (dependency-wise) Go project with a good suite of unit tests, it was easy to get running, integrated with GitHub to ensure every PR was passing our unit tests. Once it's all configured it's great, it just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
YAML configuration files are kind of a pain. The available database services seem to be targeting a cross section of technologies and outside of the old school core RDBs (MySQL, PostgreSQL), hit a mix of highly used, and kind of esoteric options (do they have a lot of Neo4j or Riak users?). It would be nice to see a few more options available (we have a RethinkDB integration, hint, hint...) because I'm not going to pick my services because the CI system supports it, I'm going to pick a CI system because it supports my services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating test runs against all submitted PRs. We later added a CodeCov integration and we submit coverage analysis from CircleCI over to CodeCov. That visibility helped us raise our test coverage from ~55% to ~75% over about 3 months, all through small, less than 1%, bumps in coverage with each PR merged to master.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're test and build environments are relatively straightforward, it's a good tool. However other solutions are easier to work with as your setup becomes increasingly complex.
small team tested
What do you like best about the product?
The docker integration is super handy when I'm lucky enough to have a side project built that way. I have used it without docker for smaller projects too... I even think that is better than Travis, but my experience is less deep there. The setup is painless
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is a bit sparse in an unhelpful way. Either the text and elements could be bigger, or more could be added. I don't often use the web interface, but when I do it's a "meh" experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for small client projects with private repos and few specs along with developing larger internal services in docker environments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think it's the best built-in CI for docker environments I've used so if that applies to you it might be worth switching.
Continuous Integration flexible and modern
What do you like best about the product?
You pay for containers so you can have lots of projects running their integrations in the same container, in that sense is cheaper than TravisCI service, and generate the .circle.yml file on the repo can be done too on the UI
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't found shell tools for check the .yml syntax of the .yml file though the alternative of being generated by the web is cool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was a travel company with lots of subsystems and apis connected, so continuos integrations of these apis was critical in order to don't have downtimes, or bugs that can interrupt the service
Nice CI with good docker support
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI really impresses me with a few things -
1. Build on Linux + OSX + Android - CircleCI is the most cross-platform hosted CI server that I've ever seen - it currently supports Linux and OSX, alongwith app builds for Android and IOS. I really love the fact that they dont play favourites with their service, it wants to support all popular platforms that developers want. Moneywise, I think this is good as I only have to pay once for all the services. Even though it seems to be priced at the higher end, because I take advantage of most of the platforms it supports, I think its worth it for me.
2. Auto-parallelisation - This is another great feature that I miss on other platforms - what CircleCI does is that it automatically splits your commands into separate batches and runs them in parallel to speed up the whole process. And circle does deliver on its speed promises.
3. Integration with services like Heroku + Coveralls + Sauce labs - CircleCI has loads of useful integrations with some lesser popular services like Sauce Labs and Coveralls and as I said, they are important to cover all aspects of your good coding practises like Code quality and Multi-browser testing for webapps.
4. Docker support - Docker is the rising star of testing in the last few years and CircleCI does a decent job of enabling developers to take advantage of it. Dev-test-production equivalence on docker means that you dont need to worry about developer builds/machines having different configuration than production. The whole environment is created every time on demand from docker images, so there is no chance of dirtying your production system. Also, all public and private Docker registry is supported via simple Docker push and Docker pull commands.
5. Community preview (beta) - CircleCi has a good outreach program for their active users, where they basically send emails or show notifications in the sidebar about their new developments and urge you to try it out. Good thing is they know that because it is a beta thing, stuff may break and assign a Customer support to you pro-actively, in case you may need some help with rollback or want to provide feedback.
1. Build on Linux + OSX + Android - CircleCI is the most cross-platform hosted CI server that I've ever seen - it currently supports Linux and OSX, alongwith app builds for Android and IOS. I really love the fact that they dont play favourites with their service, it wants to support all popular platforms that developers want. Moneywise, I think this is good as I only have to pay once for all the services. Even though it seems to be priced at the higher end, because I take advantage of most of the platforms it supports, I think its worth it for me.
2. Auto-parallelisation - This is another great feature that I miss on other platforms - what CircleCI does is that it automatically splits your commands into separate batches and runs them in parallel to speed up the whole process. And circle does deliver on its speed promises.
3. Integration with services like Heroku + Coveralls + Sauce labs - CircleCI has loads of useful integrations with some lesser popular services like Sauce Labs and Coveralls and as I said, they are important to cover all aspects of your good coding practises like Code quality and Multi-browser testing for webapps.
4. Docker support - Docker is the rising star of testing in the last few years and CircleCI does a decent job of enabling developers to take advantage of it. Dev-test-production equivalence on docker means that you dont need to worry about developer builds/machines having different configuration than production. The whole environment is created every time on demand from docker images, so there is no chance of dirtying your production system. Also, all public and private Docker registry is supported via simple Docker push and Docker pull commands.
5. Community preview (beta) - CircleCi has a good outreach program for their active users, where they basically send emails or show notifications in the sidebar about their new developments and urge you to try it out. Good thing is they know that because it is a beta thing, stuff may break and assign a Customer support to you pro-actively, in case you may need some help with rollback or want to provide feedback.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really dont have too much to complain against them, but still here are the little problems I have faced over time -
1. Build matrix for multiple builds is not supported like in Travis or Appveyor - it is really needed for testing many combination of environments to make sure all permutations are checked. You can still hand code all the options, but it doesnt seem like a good use of time for developers.
2. After subscribing to their beta preview, they upgraded their OS image for my account and a lot of things were changed in the new image, essentially making multiple language version configurations very tedious. That broke my tests and they couldnt offer immediate solution to it after describing to them, only they promised to report it to their developers in turn. It was not a big problem though, as they rolled back my account to normal OS image after reporting about this.
1. Build matrix for multiple builds is not supported like in Travis or Appveyor - it is really needed for testing many combination of environments to make sure all permutations are checked. You can still hand code all the options, but it doesnt seem like a good use of time for developers.
2. After subscribing to their beta preview, they upgraded their OS image for my account and a lot of things were changed in the new image, essentially making multiple language version configurations very tedious. That broke my tests and they couldnt offer immediate solution to it after describing to them, only they promised to report it to their developers in turn. It was not a big problem though, as they rolled back my account to normal OS image after reporting about this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In my day job, we use it for testing docker-based projects for our client support.
Its docker-support is pretty top-notch and very fast compared to other options we have tried. Although it is new to the scene, it seems quite rock stable in our daily use, which is why we decided to use it exclusively for some projects.
Its docker-support is pretty top-notch and very fast compared to other options we have tried. Although it is new to the scene, it seems quite rock stable in our daily use, which is why we decided to use it exclusively for some projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Hosted CI seems to be the flavour of the year, so there is a lot of good options and the competition is only rising. You should definitely do your trial with a few of these before you finally decide on the optimal one. Only I would suggest that CircleCI is one of the good ones in the sea of CI services and worth trying out.
Deploying Docker Containers and Open Source Products
What do you like best about the product?
I liked that it make testing docker containers super easy. It took about 2-3 minutes to set up and was extremely easy to add other people to use. I currently use it for all my open source products for continuous integration over Travis CI which makes things a lot easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
It had 1 major outage which affected my production deploys for a day. I do not have any other complaints besides that one day but they sent free swag to make up for it and were awesome about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a better way to solve CI testing and deploys. We were using Codeship but they had not released docker support at the time which has currently changed. We needed something that supported docker easily and not docker as well. It integrated with Github nicely and made things super easy for me to set up for the team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It only works with Github so be conscious about that if you have to support Stash or anything else.
CircleCI
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to get started, you are able to add custom steps
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to do multi-stage integrations - ie unit tests followed by integration tests
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
software developing - able to find bugs/breaks in software faster
CircleCI is reliable and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Simple configuration to its servers and with Github, reliable service, and very expressive for executing different types of tests.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not always the most up-to-date versions of software (ex: docker versions), sometimes (but very infrequently) can be slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our use case is very simple CI for running tests on pull requests, it's convenient that it has high availability and completes in a
Like the UI, hard to setup
What do you like best about the product?
UI, ability to restart builds, jump through different builds
What do you dislike about the product?
Only runs on docker 1.8 (as of about a month ago) that made us move away from circleci.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous deployment, and precommit checks.
Works with most tools that we've used, hooks into different ecosystems like github/ aws.
Works with most tools that we've used, hooks into different ecosystems like github/ aws.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is hard to understand setting up hooks to github repos/ other ecosystems, take some time to understand it better.
Solid CI for python and node apps
What do you like best about the product?
The UI for running tests is nice, and it's pretty dependable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The configuration, while easy enough (YAML file) is also currently impossible to validate without trying a test run. Whenever I set up a new project, I end going through several iterations just to get all the pieces working correctly. The setup for getting a new github project building is also a little tricky to figure out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Full test runs for every PR and deployment on every merge to develop/master.
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