CircleCI Erfahrungen

Vorteile

As any Continuous Integration tool it does what it should do. Builds and runs. Hard to say what's the most because haven't used other CI tools but CircleCI does what's expected and there was no thoughts about changing to other tools. So I would recommend using it.

Nachteile

The tutorials are not yet clear. They don't lead from start to workable CI.

Vorteile

The Github integration made migrating our workflows to CircleCI quite seamless. We use the same integration for access control to ensure only certain team members can view/deploy.

Nachteile

Web UI feels cluttered, even after a redesign. No mobile app last I checked. This doesn't happen nearly as often anymore, but we used to experience random 'hangs' that were not explained by our own processes - canceling and restarting the job always did the trick though.

Vorteile

The UI and integration is easy and very straight forward. Were able to get builds going in a couple hours.

Nachteile

When picking a CI to use for our business we tried a lot of the big names and CircleCi was great except for the price point for how fast the builds were. Alternatives like Strider gave CircleCi a bad taste.

Vorteile

CircleCI is highly configurable for many different types of workflows. We rely on CircleCI for continuous deployment. Our tests automatically run and deploy code to the correct environment depending on the branch it's pushed to. It's also generally reliable these days. Reliability was an issue for us a few years ago but those issues are mostly gone now.

Nachteile

Since CircleCI is highly configurable it can also be difficult to build out a custom flow that works the way you need it to. We spent more time than we wanted to getting our automated deployment system set up.

Vorteile

It's powerful, it's got lots of features, and the customization is limitless. CircleCI improves the developer experience many times over. It's also fairly reliable, and makes handling a large project simpler.

Nachteile

It can go down sometimes, debugging can be a bit hard and cryptic. Support is also fairly lackluster.

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Vorteile

CircleCI does everything we want in a CI product, and it works in the way that we want to use it (which is visiting the CircleCI user interface as little as possible). It offers very solid integrations with other services (such as Slack and GitHub) and it works well for managing an entire team's projects without getting too cluttered.

Nachteile

It can be slow. Especially if you don't have a lot of parallelism, but even sometimes if you do, it can take a couple of minutes just to deploy minor changes sometimes. This isn't much of a problem in reality, it just means you might need a different approach to your deployment process (one that doesn't require you to sit and wait for CircleCI to run before you move on).

Vorteile

Circle CI is being trusted by FB for React, and Fastlane. So if it works for them I think that is a great testament to it.

Nachteile

Doesn't allow as many languages and environments out of the box as Travis CI does.

Vorteile

Realy fast, and requires almost none configuration to get going, I didn't know much about it at the start, but then o learned a lot very fast.

Nachteile

People do not get its importance at first, it's a real pain to make them understand why should them to spend time on this sort of thing.

Vorteile

Fast and resilient, especially when the release of version 2.0, we are able to benefit from docker layers caching..our build time improved by 70%.

Nachteile

sometimes it goes crazy especially in service discoveries since we are using docker compose to build and orchestrate ci env.

Vorteile

automated testing, building and deploying really helped or project in reaching maximum velocity for the scrum teams

Nachteile

What I least like about Circle CI is the slow learning curve for some of the programmers so that they are able to make a build and deploy script themselves

Vorteile

It is incredibly easy to get started, you can be integrated in hours and from then on its a consistent reliable platform for all your CI needs.

Nachteile

As test suites grow and parallelization becomes important it can get awfully expensive. I still use it on every project but I was at a prior company where we racked up bills in the thousands a month without really trying for not that big a product. This was definitely due to some poor planning but CircleCI makes it easy to land yourself in that kind of situation if you're not careful.

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Vorteile

The great configurational freedom to the user makes it suitable for any and all kinds of applications. The step by step view provided is very helpful UI to track the whole process. The YML templates make it very easy to set up and the git configuration part is very well documented and just a few steps can make it work.

Nachteile

The pricing of the tool is a bit on the higher side compared to its competitors. Docker support is not complete.

Vorteile

The flexibility of configuring build environments for various technologies stacks and needs is key. Circle CI provides some getting started assistance through documentation and tooling, and once you’re past that there really is very little in terms of constraints holding you back from near infinite flexibility. It’s a great service!

Nachteile

The threshold of minimum knowledge required to get started is a bit higher than some of the competitors.

Vorteile

It's inexpensiveness is the main attraction but also along with that CircleCi provides tons of other helpful features as well you can share the test logs via email as well.

Nachteile

As for my use case I don't have anything to dislike and it is ideal for me.

Vorteile

It helps me to analyze all build quickly in real time. It is pretty simple to configure, setup and use. It has a pretty good integration with various remote repositories and it can run tests and give you results.

Nachteile

The learning curve is steep for some developers. It has two versions of the software, which sometimes makes it difficult to manage.

Vorteile

- Workflows is great tool for enabling parallel tasks
- deep customization for cache controls
- easily introduced deploy workflows

Nachteile

- config file tends to get verbose and too long ( I want to have some ways to separate concerns among some jobs)

Vorteile

generous free plans for open source projects
easy to set up
plenty of features
plenty of customization
runs quick

Nachteile

Additional containers are a bit pricey. There are other services offering similar products at much lower prices.

Vorteile

It provides many useful features, and I can use most of them with a free plan.
Customer service is also excellent.

Nachteile

'Workflows' is useful, but it can not be tested locally by its nature.

Vorteile

The software works great, is fast, and extremely easy to use.

Nachteile

None, but I believe paid options could be less expensive

Vorteile

CircleCI is a great software for provisioning software or applications before publishing them on the production environment. It speeds up our provisioning process and allows us to debug our applications really well! Saved us a lot of time so we can work on something better!

Nachteile

The pricing of concurrent jobs and containers is too high, I can set up one myself using other hosting providers at a way cheaper price.

Vorteile

This is my first experience using a CI software tool, and it's AMAZING. Tools that automate the workflow of code deployment gives a lot of

Nachteile

Not too much of a problem, but there's somewhat of a learning curve to set up your environment. Took me a few days to educate myself in the specifics, such as caching, jobs, workers etc.

Vorteile

Easy to start, good integration with GitHub, free for small and open-source projects.

Nachteile

The pricing is a bit higher compared to its competitors.

Vorteile

Circle CI is a very nice CI tools, especially if you need to build on Apple devices

Nachteile

It's a bit pricy regarding other service that can be opensource

Vorteile

It's an excellent unobtrusive CI that keeps developers writing software rather than waiting for tests to finish. It can quickly run through thousands of tests and send alerts once complete. The UI is great and easy to use.

Nachteile

The config is probably the worst of the cloud CI software.

Vorteile

- Integration with GitHub and Slack
- Automation of several types of tests (schema validation, integration, unit tests, etc)
- Easy to monitor the results of tests while they're still running

Nachteile

Perhaps due to the high volume of simultaneous users, sometimes it would be faster to run tests locally rather than on circleci