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.

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:

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

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

Buddy will create two pipeline groups, feature and bugfix:

Grouping by branch prefix

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.