CircleCI Reviews

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

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.

Excellent customer service, and now even faster builds Workflows 2.0 makes it simple for me to parallelize tasks. Simple integration with code-quality services like GitHub. If necessary, it can be built on macOS.

Nothing of significance to point out. It's a little messy with reduced resolutions if we go to a project and filter it by Branch Name. On a mobile device or a browser tab, for example. Except for that, everything else is fine.

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

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.

Fully integrated with docker and because everything is moving to containers (or should be for scalability) this is huge for us. Tests can run automatically after pushing commits help identify problems before our clients would find them. The earlier you find a bug the cheaper its costs you in the end.

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Circle CI offers so much control over how to test, build and deploy code. Workflows make it easy to automate CI/CD jobs in workflows organized in clearly defined steps that trigger concurrently or depend one job to trigger before another can be executed. I love how the interface offers a graphical user interface that clearly shows the different stages or steps the build process goes through and follow to whichever job is failing the build

The configuration can take time to set up with some config files growing up to about 200 lines of code. But fortunately circle ci offers a way to reduce repeating code while using aliases and executors

CircleCI is a easy to use solution for building and deploying your projects. It support concurrency and has unlimited build time in most plans

If you need to build on MacOS, you'll need to pay a high price and get limited build time. This makes the solution less desirable than its competitors.

CircleCI is great for doing pipelines and integrating commits from each member of our teams. Great error reporting helps identify errors right away.

Their mobile experience needs improvement. Not everything is available on their mobile app and a computer is required for some tasks.

I use the free version and it is very good software. You can download CircleCI to your local machine by using docker and then run the test on local before committing your code.

Documentation needs a bit of work. So far so good, but needs more explanation about how to set it up on a certain framework

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.

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

Robust, easy to use, great documentation, great feature set even on a free plan with sizable 1,500 build minutes per month (quite a lot for smaller projects).

As you grow, cost rises quite rapidly as well, especially if you require multiple containers run in parallel.

Multi-architecture builds, full Docker support, and streamlined declarative pipeline config made me feel right at home!

Could use a better comparative analysis marketing doc to explain differences from folks coming from Travis-CI to better understand the advantages.

- 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

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

Ease of use and the extensibility of having your tests ran upon pushing without having to configure the .yml file to find tests.

The biggest con of the software would have to be the initial documentation on how to set up. This can get kind of confusing.

Using this one can post large amount of data and hides its personal data from unauthorized access. It is well accepted global tool and integrates well with existing cloud services. Docker and other services also integrates well.

Writing the code in YAML is required which you have to learn and get familiarity to start working with this tool. Documentation is documented very badly.

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. Minimal interaction with user interface to get things done

It would also be great to be able to specify which docker images are cached on all executors. it can take a couple of minutes just to deploy minor changes sometimes.

Support for OSX environment and Docker platform, very fast builds, advanced cache, up to date software. Web UI is not so bad, but i love the simplicity and configuration possibilities, that eg. Semaphore CI provides

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It does everything you would expect from a continuous integration tool and everything in the cloud, being even better.

I did not used the tool for much time for having any complaints, when i researched and used the tool i found it satisfactory.

I love that this software is fast, very reliable and integrates perfectly with all the tools modern software developers use.

It can be a little slow for medium to big test suites, if you don't add enough parallelism (which comes at a price, of course).

CircleCI is very valuable component in delivering analytical work. It makes the whole process of deployment seamless. Its integration with other components is also very helpful.

CircleCI has no cons as such, it needs some good scripting and coding skills to work with it but for the features it provides it should not be an issue

Very reliable service with plenty of customisation options for your CI pipelines. Easy GitHub integration makes connecting repositories to pipelines a piece of cake.

The UI is nice but could have been a little simpler for CI noobs to get started quickly.

The best feature that CircleCI offers is the low set-up integration with GitHub allowing me to start using it in a few minutes.

I don't think there is anything in particular that I dislike about CircleCI, maybe the price could be a bit better?

CircleCI is easy to configure and supports integration with majority of tools and services. It have a very nice user interface and allow us to access our build so that it helps and saves time in debugging.

Although it saves time in many other thing but we have no control on how much cpu time and resources it will consume. It also lacks a lit bit in performance and is slow compare to others.

We've been on the free plan for a few months now and it's been great. Very flexible and customizable. Builds are much faster than my previous CI.

User interface is a bit overcomplicated IMO.

Easy to set up, fast, pleasant UI and UX. Tight github integration is critical for teams that move fast.

No .NET support. By not having windows support there are projects that cannot leverage CircleCI and must move to an alternative.

A server less platform for managing CI which is great compared to Jenkins for example Lots of modules you can easily use Regular YAML spec

A bit cumbersome to begin creating a new pipeline compared to something like Github Actions