As a newbie, I think BuildKite has several issues. For example, it can't get the status of a PR once it's closed. The syntax is easy to use, but updating a pipeline requires administrator settings, and viewing pipelines for others isn't straightforward. Another issue is the lack of additional support, especially with plugins. Most plugins, except for a few like Docker, aren't updated regularly on GitHub. While we haven't faced major issues, having someone actively maintain these plugins would increase confidence.
My company uses automated scale-up and scale-down for the agents in Buildkite. Most of the time, there are on-demand agents, and it takes a longer time for an agent to kick in. All Buildkite agents run on an AWS agent, so we enable autoscaling for it. Based on the load, the agents can be scaled up and scaled down, and while they are scaling up, sometimes they just get stuck. Until the nodes don't come up, Buildkite won't run on them. The major issue has to do with the tool's scalability, especially when increasing the number of agents. Until now, as a CI/CD tool, we have been using Buildkite, and we haven't faced any issues or gaps in it.
Information Technology Specialist at Techn IT Solutions
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2024-06-13T06:56:08Z
Jun 13, 2024
I am not really sure at this stage if it can be improved in any way because I haven't been using it for six months. I am sure that there would have been a lot of improvements made to the tool already since I last used it. As far as I can remember, there wasn't much that I wasn't able to do in the tool. To make the tool auto-scalable, you need to use Kubernetes. It gets very complex if you want the tool to scale automatically. If you do manual scaling according to the demand, I think it is not too hard. Auto-scalability is an area of concern that needs improvement.
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As a newbie, I think BuildKite has several issues. For example, it can't get the status of a PR once it's closed. The syntax is easy to use, but updating a pipeline requires administrator settings, and viewing pipelines for others isn't straightforward. Another issue is the lack of additional support, especially with plugins. Most plugins, except for a few like Docker, aren't updated regularly on GitHub. While we haven't faced major issues, having someone actively maintain these plugins would increase confidence.
My company uses automated scale-up and scale-down for the agents in Buildkite. Most of the time, there are on-demand agents, and it takes a longer time for an agent to kick in. All Buildkite agents run on an AWS agent, so we enable autoscaling for it. Based on the load, the agents can be scaled up and scaled down, and while they are scaling up, sometimes they just get stuck. Until the nodes don't come up, Buildkite won't run on them. The major issue has to do with the tool's scalability, especially when increasing the number of agents. Until now, as a CI/CD tool, we have been using Buildkite, and we haven't faced any issues or gaps in it.
I am not really sure at this stage if it can be improved in any way because I haven't been using it for six months. I am sure that there would have been a lot of improvements made to the tool already since I last used it. As far as I can remember, there wasn't much that I wasn't able to do in the tool. To make the tool auto-scalable, you need to use Kubernetes. It gets very complex if you want the tool to scale automatically. If you do manual scaling according to the demand, I think it is not too hard. Auto-scalability is an area of concern that needs improvement.
Compared to market leaders like Azure DevOps and Jenkins, Buildkite's community is smaller, but they do have some documentation.