Buddy

What Buddy is

Buddy is a delivery platform for creating workflows, running build actions and deploying software. Teams can define pipelines through a user interface, YAML or generated code and trigger them from events involving services such as GitHub, AWS and Slack. Deployment options include agent-based and agentless methods, manual approvals, role-based access control and one-click rollback. Build actions can run in containers on Intel or ARM hardware and on Linux, Windows, Mac or NixOS. Visual testing supports Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Figma and Storybook, with multi-browser testing through its NPM CLI. Documented integrations include AWS, Azure, Bitbucket, Cloudflare, DockerHub, GitHub, GitLab, Google Cloud, Jira, Shopify, Slack and Snyk. Buddy can run in the cloud or on customer infrastructure behind a firewall. Its listed security controls include IP blocking, custom roles, group permissions, SAML 2.0, audit logs and enforced 2FA; the company lists SOC 2 Type II certification. A free plan is available; paid plans are €29 a month and €99 a month. Cloud trials last 14 days, and on-premise trials 30 days.

Who it suits

Buddy suits software teams that need configurable pipelines, build environments and deployment workflows. It may also fit organisations that want to run the platform on their own infrastructure.

Limits

The Free plan has 1 seat, 1 concurrent run, 300 pipeline GB-minutes, 1 GB of pipeline cache, 300 sandbox CPU-minutes, and 730 sandbox GB-hours. It excludes 2FA and Sandboxes. The free workspace may be frozen after 60 days without an account login and terminated if no action is taken within the following 30 days.

Getting started

1. Visit https://buddy.works/.
2. Choose cloud or self-hosted operation; self-hosted Buddy runs on your infrastructure behind a firewall.
3. Create a workspace to start the cloud trial, which lasts 14 days with Hyper plan features, or use the 30-day on-premise trial.
4. Select the Free plan or a paid plan.
5. Create a pipeline using the UI, YAML, or generated code, then connect it to an event source such as GitHub, AWS, or Slack.

Verdict

Buddy offers pipeline authoring, testing and deployment options in cloud and self-hosted setups. Review free-tier limits and workspace inactivity rules alongside the paid plan capacities.