Familiarize yourself with the basics of how pipelines operate.

Learn how to create your first pipeline in Buddy, trigger builds, and configure basic pipeline settings.

Your first step into using Buddy - creating a pipeline

Creating a pipeline

Discover how to use YAML templates in Buddy to streamline pipeline creation using reusable configurations and parameters.

YAML templates

New pipeline

Explore all pipeline trigger types in Buddy, including manual, Git-based, scheduled, pattern-based, webhooks, API, and cross-pipeline triggers.

Learn how to trigger pipelines manually, on Git events, on schedule, or using pattern-based rules.

For production pipelines, it is best to set them to manual mode and restrict access rights to senior devs only.

Manual trigger

Event triggers allow you to automate pipelines making them run whenever specific changes to repository are made

On git event

You can set your pipeline to be triggered at a certain time of the day or to run in specific intervals

On schedule

You can use a pattern to define which branches or tags will trigger the pipeline. The patterns support ref names and ref paths.

Wildcards

Basic trigger modes

Advanced trigger modes are for users with more technical know-how, giving you more control over when pipeline triggers

Webhooks automate real-time communication between web applications, enabling seamless integration and efficient information exchange.

Webhooks

Another way of triggering the pipelines is using Buddy's external REST API

REST API

Pipelines can also be run remotely from the terminal with commands attached to commit messages.

Commit commands

Integrating Buddy with Slack will let you run pipelines with slash commands.

Slack slash commands

Advanced trigger types

Trigger pipeline lets you create advanced workflows, where several pipelines interact with each other across the whole workspace.

Trigger pipeline action

Triggering pipelines

Each pipeline has its own configuration and filesystem attached. You can create multiple pipelines that will run different tasks within one repository.

Pipeline list

The Runs tab displays the recent history of executions and configuration changes of the given pipeline.

Pipeline history

Pipeline filesystem

Analytics tab provides you with more information about the perofrmance of your builds.

Analytics

Advanced settings

Introduction

Check out how Buddy caches your files to speed up the deployments.

Each pipeline has its own filesystem. On the first pipeline run, the repository is cloned to the filesystem.

Filesystem cache

Builds, tests, and other commands defined in the build action are executed in the context of the filesystem containing the repository. This is the primary cache of the pipeline.

Build action cache

All layers created in Docker-building actions are cached. During subsequent builds, Buddy adds only the layers that have not been built in the previous step.

Docker cache

Sometimes you may want to clear the cache – for example, if you need to regenerate the artifacts. In such case, you can either clear the cache manually, or select an option which will do that automatically before every execution.

Cache maintenance

Cache

Learn more about builds and tests you can perform in Buddy

Builds & testing

Run multiple pipelines and actions in parallel to speed up your workflow.

Concurrency & parallelism

Learn how pipelines and actions can be configured to run on specific conditions.

Conditional runs

Migrate databases and run custom scripts on remotes with the SSH action.

DB migrations & custom scripts

Variables are pairs of keys and values that can be used to customize the build and to store sensitive data.

Variables in Buddy are highly customizable not only in their function but also scope

Scope and configuration

Variables can be combined with other words to create longer phrases than can be used

Combining phrases

For effective workflow automation, you may want to sometimes pass variables between pipelines and actions.

Passing variables

Variables

Parameterized pipelines offer a powerful way to customize and configure your workflows in Buddy.

Passing parameters on run

Passing parameters between pipelines

Manual approval

Parameterized pipelines

Learn how to organize your Buddy pipelines with application folders

Folders

Learn how to upload and use SSH keys to authenticate deployment and script execution on remote servers.

SSH keys

Learn more about personalizing GitHub status badges in Buddy

Status badges

Learn more about private dependencies and submodules configuration.

Learn more about managing private dependencies in Buddy.

Private dependencies

Learn about using submodules in Buddy to integrate between different projects.

Submodules

Learn about deploying submodules and private dependencies in Buddy.

Deployment

Learn how to use private modules from an npm registry in your Node projects.

Node.js packages

Learn how to download private Composer packages and use them in your PHP actions.

Composer PHP packages

Buddy lets you easily reproduce both individual actions and complete pipelines without the need to manually configure actions every time you do it.

When you duplicate a pipeline, Buddy creates an exact copy of all the pipeline's actions and settings.

Duplicating

You can export pipeline configuration to YAML files that can be easily used in any new project or workspace.

Export / Import

Copy pipeline

Detailed use cases showcasing how you can use Buddy in actual development process.

Learn how to invalidate cache after deployment with Buddy's pipelines

CDN invalidation

Creating a delivery automation pipeline in Buddy is simple and effortless. Here's an example of a Continuous Delivery pipeline setup in Buddy.

Continuous Delivery

An example of how to build a Continuous Deployment pipeline in Buddy.

Continuous Deployment

Learn how simply you can create a daily integration tests pipeline using Buddy.

Daily integration tests

See how easy it is to automate your process using Buddy deployment pipeline.

Deployment pipeline

Learn how to validate the URLs on your website using the dedicated Link Checker action.

Link validation pipeline

Create a simple monitoring pipeline using Buddy and automate your maintenance.

Monitoring pipeline

Check how simple it is to run pull-request tests using Buddy.

Pull requests testing

Learn how to configure conditional pipeline triggering by using tags in Buddy

Release after every tag push

Learn how easily you can create on-push tests using Buddy.

Run tests after every push

Learn how to attach Selenium services to your builds and run browser tests on your apps and websites.

Selenium tests

Learn about using settable variables for semantic versioning in Buddy.

Semantic versioning and settable variables

There is nothing more frustrating than taking your app down for maintenance. See how you can reduce the application downtime to zero using a zero downtime deployment configuration in Buddy.

Pipelines