codeship

CodeShip is for the setup, testing and deployment of software which helps make this much easier to do compared to similar alternatives in the industry. While reliability is it's best feature. This software just works where you may used to hassles with hosting or management these are not issues in my experience with it which is great. The initial wizard tutorial when you first install to help you learn the UI and settings quicker if you're new to it. It comes loaded with Firefox and Google Chrome so you can test across browsers seamlessly. And it's possible to do end to end testing in Codeship easily where it's a huge pain to do with the competition's version. CodeShip is makes it simple to manage and deploy complex software with lots of parts which is saying a lot considering the amount that can potentially go wrong in between deployment, build and testing. There are a large amount of integrations possible which is a huge advantage in addition to it's simplicity. Connecting to Slack as a project communication tool together with CodeShip allows you to connect and empower talent to do their best work rather than make the whole process much more of a challenge using a Travis CI IAM for AWS EC2, for example. I've read instances of teams having everything setup initially for their build including integrations in about twenty minutes. That's sweet news. You'll appreciate being able to setup and then test commands as a shell script. And the PyPI caching is world class and the integration for Ruby/Rails though RVM is good. Pricing is very reasonable with a free personal plan to evaluate their software free of charge and no credit card required. While about one hundred bucks per month for their basic premium plan is still good value considering the efficiency made possible by using it. The paid plans tier up according to the number of concurrent builds which is fair enough.

The knowledge base and tutorial selection could be improved. It only helps a software company to have end users able to teach ourselves be able to take of things on our own. While there are some available, they are not prominently linked to on their website and there's room for a whole lot more education certainly considering the complexity of the industry in general. Their blog is very good too and it has offers a lot of value, but they would do well to emulate their efforts inside their documentation and knowledge base, perhaps in my opinion.

CodeShip gets rave reviews for good reason. The native docker support and ability to mirror local development environments with a secure and customizable system that is reliable and quick is a huge advantage for any software team. The amount of quality integrations available for CodeShip is awesome including Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is outstanding while you can do all your testing in their sandbox. And CodeShip has freely available API so you can build your own applications that will interface with it too. I believe you'll experience greater productivity too with the ability to automate so much of your development.