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I love BuildKite. It might seem obvious now but I feel like BK had two key ideas -- fully declarative pipelines and a hybrid SaaS control plane / customer-manag
by exidy 1y ago
I love BuildKite. It might seem obvious now but I feel like BK had two key ideas -- fully declarative pipelines and a hybrid SaaS control plane / customer-managed workers concept that made it so much easier to deploy into large enterprises. That combined with a UI that was clear and a pleasure to work with.
I do wonder how BK will continue in a world that's increasingly dominated by GitHub and and other integrated solutions, but I hope as long as there's a market for quality tools, BK will survive and thrive.
- kawsper 1y agoIt also allowed us (a small startup) to run huge test suites, on cheap dedicated hardware from Hetzner, without sacrificing the developer experience. It was the bill I was the happiest to pay. We used Knapsack Pro to efficiently parallelise our Ruby test suite. Today, I still use Buildkite, but now I build golden images (with packer) and deploy them with terraform.
- sj26 1y agoTurning our snowflake infrastructure into an autoscaling fleet via a packer + terraform pipeline was one of my first projects at Buildkite back in 2016: https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/terraform-techniques-with-buildkite/ https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/terraform-techniques-wi... We still have this pipeline with terraform, but have moved from building packer images for ec2 to building containers for ecs.