{"id":285374,"date":"2019-03-26T07:16:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=285374"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:03:55","slug":"15-minutes-automation-nirvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/15-minutes-automation-nirvana\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy: 15 Minutes to Automation Nirvana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deploying a website to the server in 2019 requires much more effort than 10 years ago. For example, here&#8217;s what needs to be done nowadays to deliver a typical JS app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>split the app into chunks<\/li>\n<li>configure webpack bundle<\/li>\n<li>minify .js files<\/li>\n<li>set up staging environment<\/li>\n<li>upload the files to the server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Running these steps manually takes time, so an automation tool seems like an obvious choice. Unfortunately, most of contemporary CI\/CD software provide nothing more than infrastructure in which you have to manually configure the process anyway: spend hours reading the documentation, writing scripts, testing the outcome, and maintaining it later on. Ain&#8217;t nobody got time for that!<\/p>\n<p>This is why we created Buddy: to simplify deployment to the absolute minimum by creating a robust tool whose UI\/UX allows you configure the whole process in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the delivery process looks in <a href=\"https:\/\/synd.co\/2Ot4duT\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buddy CI\/CD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-285376\" class=\"align-left media-285376\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/01-pipeline.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>This is a delivery pipeline in Buddy. You select the action that you need, configure the details, and put it down in place\u2014just like you&#8217;re building a house of bricks. No scripting, no documentation, no nothing. Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/synd.co\/2Ot4duT\" rel=\"noopener\">Buddy supports<\/a> <strong>over 100 actions<\/strong>: builds, tests, deployments, notifications, DevOps tools &amp; many more.<\/p>\n<h3>Super-Smooth Deployments<\/h3>\n<p>Buddy&#8217;s deployments are based on changesets which means <strong>only changed files are deployed<\/strong> \u2013 there&#8217;s no need to upload the whole repository every time.<\/p>\n<p>Configuration is very simple. For example, in order to deploy to SFTP, you just need to enter authentication details and the target path on the server:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-285377\" class=\"align-left media-285377\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/02-sftp.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.co\/2Ot4duT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buddy<\/a> supports deployments to all popular stacks, PaaS, and IaaS services, including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and DigitalOcean. Here&#8217;s a small part of the supported integrations:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-285378\" class=\"align-left media-285378\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/03-deployments.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<h3>Faster Builds, Better Apps<\/h3>\n<p>Builds are run in isolated containers with a preconfigured dev environment. Dependencies and packages are downloaded on the first execution and <strong>cached in the container<\/strong>, which massively improves build performance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-285379\" class=\"align-left media-285379\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/04-build.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Buddy supports all popular web developer languages and frameworks, including Node.js, PHP, Ruby, WordPress, Python, .NET Core and Go:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-285380\" class=\"align-left media-285380\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/05-frameworks.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<h3>Docker for the People<\/h3>\n<p>Being a Docker-based tool itself, Buddy helps developers embrace the power of containers with a <strong>dedicated roster of Docker actions<\/strong>. You can build custom images and use them in your builds, run dockerized apps on a remote, and easily orchestrate containers on a Kubernetes cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy has dedicated integrations with Google GKE, Amazon EKS, and Azure AKS. You can also push and images to and from private registries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"post-285381\" class=\"align-left media-285381\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/06-docker-k8s.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<h3>Automate now!<\/h3>\n<p>Sign up to Buddy now and get 5 projects forever free when your trial is over. The process is simple: click the button below, hook up your GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab repository (or any other), and let Buddy carry you on from there. See you onboard!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/synd.co\/2Ot4duT\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Create free account<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deploying a website to the server in 2019 requires much more effort than 10 years ago. 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