Introducing: Pipeline grouping

Introducing: Pipeline grouping

Pipelines are the heart of Buddy. They let developers streamline software delivery, from running tests on your commits, to deployments, website monitoring, backups, and more. A single project (repository) in Buddy can have an unlimited number of pipelines, which means you can seamlessly create a delivery pipeline for each dev environment. Some of our users have hundreds or pipelines in a single project!

However, with the numbers or pipelines increasing, it was getting hard to manage them. Until now, the only way to facilitate that was to use pipeline folders. With this week's release, we deliver a new functionality that will help you cope with that: pipeline grouping.

Image loading...Grouping dropdown location

Pipelines can be grouped by five features:

  1. Branch name
  2. Branch prefix
  3. Pipeline status
  4. Trigger mode
  5. Pipeline name prefix

Whenever you select one of the above, Buddy will automatically group them into distinct parties:

Image loading...Grouping by pipeline status

Grouping by prefix

If you group the pipelines by a prefix, the groups will be based on the patterns used in the name. For example, if you name your branches

default
feature/2fa feature/api feature/sso bugfix/typo_on_main_site bugfix/regex

Buddy will create two pipeline groups, feature and bugfix:

Image loading...Grouping by branch prefix

Tip
If you group pipelines by prefix, the prefix will be cut out from the name. This way you can use longer names and there will no problem with displaying them in the UI.

Prefix separators

The following separators will split the branch prefix from the stem: /, -, _, .. In case of pipeline grouping, you can use the same separators plus spacebar.

Warning
Buddy is 100% customer driven. If thereā€™s a feature or integration you miss, let us know in the comments below or directly at support@buddy.works.
Jarek Dylewski

Jarek Dylewski

Customer Support

A journalist and an SEO specialist trying to find himself in the unforgiving world of coders. Gamer, a non-fiction literature fan and obsessive carnivore. Jarek uses his talents to convert the programming lingo into a cohesive and approachable narration.

Aug 19th 2021
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