Dear users of Buddy On-Premises, Pipelines in Buddy are based on Docker images – basically every action is run in a Docker container. The containers are run on the basis of Docker images pulled from Docker Hub.

New Features

• Sandboxes Beta v2.0 are now active in all paid accounts

Improvements

• Security checks have been unified and revamped. If you have 2FA enabled, Buddy will ask you for the 2FA code on actions that require security checks, for example deleting projects
• From now on users with Manage permission for pipelines can activate and deactivate submodules and pull requests in the project

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug with tag search not working in the revision/branch/tag dropdown

Two months ago we launched a closed beta of Sandboxes 2.0 – dynamically created staging environments allowing developers to serve their application from the chosen branch, tag, or pull request. The interest was overwhelming, forcing us to split the beta-testers into several parties and grant entry in stages.

In the past weeks, we received tons of feedback that we happily utilized to upgrade the feature and fix bugs. Now, it's time for a step up before we finally release Sandboxes 2.0 to the public.

Microsoft Teams has become the messaging service of choice for many companies in 2020. Be it due to the pandemics, company politics, or attachment to Redmond's products in general – or everything at once, perhaps – in the past months we received a great deal of requests to add an integration with MS Teams. We're happy to announce that from this week onwards you can send notifications on finished builds, deployments, and websites awaiting review by means of a dedicated MS Teams action. 📨

MS Teams in the action roster

New Features

• New integration: Microsoft Teams

Improvements

• Deployment from the filesystem now deletes empty folders
• [REST API] Improved error support in SSH key adding method

Bugfixes

• [Buddy On-Premises] Fixed a bug with worker view not loading
• [Buddy On-Premises] It is now possible to change worker in the pipeline

Sandboxes

• Fixed a bug with the upload to sandbox action failing if remote path on sandbox did not exist

Buddy offers integrations with the most popular AWS services, including AWS S3, ElasticBeanstalk, and Lambda deployment:

New Features

• New action: AWS CLI Version 2

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug with the Elastic Beanstalk Monitoring action getting tagged as terminated whenever Wait until ready timed out
• Fixed a bug with YAML processing logs not appearing not showing in the git import event
• [Buddy On-Premises] Download actions in workers are now functioning properly
• [Buddy On-Premises] It is now possible to switch the worker to default in the pipeline

Being a Docker-based tool itself, Buddy provides everything you need to build, test, and orchestrate Docker images:

Docker action roster

One of these actions is Dockerfile Linter, a handy tool that lets you check the Dockerfile syntax before building the image. The tool follows the best practices from the official Docker website so that you can be sure your images are optimized for maximum performance.

New Features

• [Buddy 2.0 Design] Added new menus and views: projects dropdown menu, activity tab, adding new project, project sidebar, folder management, and more
• New environment variables: BUDDY_EXECUTION_CHANGELOG_ADDED, BUDDY_EXECUTION_CHANGELOG_DELETED, BUDDY_EXECUTION_CHANGELOG_CHANGED

Improvements

• [Dockerfile Linter] Added support for environment variables

Sandboxes 2.0

• New action: Create sandbox snapshot
• It was impossible to add the SSH action to the sandbox through YAML configuration. Fixed
• It was impossible to delete a sandbox if there was a pipeline with an action referring to it. Fixed