Semaphore cloud-based platform simplifies the cloud testing process and places it more often in a single workflow. Automate each continuous power line. Get complete control with customizable steps, parallel execution, control flow, secrets and dependency control — automatic scaling and payment only for what you use. The platform allows you to add projects, servers, manage equipment, etc. The user experience is often hidden from the tools on which the developers have a significant influence. It is also fast, always up-to-date and easily integrated with other services. After sending your code to GitHub, tests are quickly launched on the platform with the support of world-class Docker and Kubernetes and more than 100 pre-installed tools. Automate each continuous power line. Get complete control with customizable steps, parallel execution, control flow, secrets and dependency control. Use the CLI for traffic lights to start compilations, view records, create SSH directly in jobs, or create custom tables. Thousands of companies around the world already trust the platform and can help you and your team faster.
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| Deployment | SaaS/Web/Cloud | Category | Continuous Integration Software |
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Semaphore is Continuous Integration Software. Semaphore offers the following functionalities:
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Yes, Semaphore provides API.
There are different tools in the market provide CI & CD Services, but what I feel good about semaphore is Support and Documentation. you don't need to spend days to setup semaphore. Friendly Support Staff and easy documentation make it hassle free.
just want to suggest a feature to manage the manual deployment/promotions in 2.0 in a better way like it was in classic version. It has already been reported in the proper forum.
I'm using mainly for Testing and deployment. its effortless and smooth.
I love having beefy servers available. Semaphore allows us to pay for beefy hardware (we use the e1-standard-8 machine type exclusively) for fast CI without taking on the burden of self-hosting. Because we're only paying for usage (to the second) we don't incur the fixed cost of scaling to match our peak so although on paper it's more expensive per unit time, it's worked out being cheaper for us than dedicated CI hosts ever was.
On top of that, the basic unit of the environment is a VM rather than a docker container. That means that we don't need to worry about docker-in-docker weirdness, and can just run builds like we do on our desktops.
I would love it if there were more CPU optimized hosts. The e1-standard-8 machine has 8vCPUs and 16 GiB of RAM. Our tests aren't very memory heavy but are CPU heavy so I think we'd benefit from 16vCPUs with 8/16 GiB RAM.
We found ourselves with a dilemma in our CI/CD. We could either self-host for better hardware or pay for more minutes of crappy hardware on other CI platforms. Even still, docker-in-docker seemed like the approach that was being advocated for managing CI on our own hardware and we've run into enough trouble with that in the past that we were leery to do it again.
Semaphore let us have simple to use VMs with fast hardware without the burden of supporting them. It's also let us drop docker-in-docker from our CI processes - which before had been a source of pain.
I’ve been working as a web engineer for more than 20 years and I’ve tried a lot of different products in the CI/CD space, but I always come back to Semaphore. They’ve done an incredible job with the latest release of their product, improving it in every possible aspect: from UI to ease of use, from speed to pricing.
It’s very easy to get started, documentation is exhaustive and clear, and workflows can be augmented and improved to cover pretty much any build requirements. On top of that, Semaphore has one of the best customer support in the industry, always fast to respond and very helpful.
Nothing really, I’ve been a user and a fan for years and the product definitely ticks all the boxes.
Semaphore takes care of CI/CD for all the products my company has developed in the past years, and their platform gives us the confidence to release multiple times a day and has greatly improved the speed of our release cycles.
- Lots of flexibility when building workflows
- Personalised interface
- Run jobs in parallel with dependencies to reduce build time
- Cache files between jobs
- Can commit config to git repo
- v2 web app is sometimes slow to load
- Navigating between projects / branches could be easier in 2.0
- Running tests in parallel (reduced time waiting for builds)
- Building web pack on semaphore instead of local environment (less conflicts)
The Semaphore concepts are really easy to understand which helped me build a great workflow for our PHP project.
I found that the documentation covered all of the areas that I was interested in such as Laravel, composer, Heroku, phpunit and private repository access so I wasn't left stratching my head on how to get something working.
This meant I had a working workflow covering branches and deployments to dev, staging and production in a few hours.
Compared with Semaphore 1 the speed of the builds is really nice and we're only on the lowest tier.
I thought that the SEM CLI was really useful and meant I was able to SSH onto servers to debug issues really easily.
I had to contact support once and they offered me two solutions to a problem I was facing in simple terms that I was able to implement quickly.
Nothing to be honest, so far experience has been good and enabled me to automate tests, qa and deployment meaning the rest of the team can just focus on development.
I think it would be nice if there were example docs on getting xdebug code coverage and lighthouse frontend analysis into the build
Read the documentation and understand the core concepts
We have a PHP Laravel project, consisting of the application, testing and QA tools. We basically need to know that the tests (Unit, API and Dusk) pass and the code follows a pre-defined standard.
Then we need to deploy the project through the environments testing the application before progressing to the next environment.
Once the workflow was created we are able to benefit from the automation on every commit and focus on development and delivering value in a consistent way.
- Fast & responsive customer support. Among the best in the industry!
- Excellent API and documentation if you are trying to do something complicated
- Very beginner-friendly as well to get you started as quickly as possible
- The UI can be a little slow / buggy sometimes
- Performance of their machines can sometimes vary
We are a team that deploys to production multiple times a day and so a rock-solid CI/CD pipeline is mission-critical. Semaphore helps us be agile and confidently shipping code.
- Extremely Fast Deploys
- The Caching feature is amazing as all %90 of my workflows involve building docker images.
- Non-Cluttered UI
- Understandable pipeline/promotions workflow
- Feels under-priced for the speed & benefits provided
- Parallelism %100
- Documentation could offer some additional examples of full configs and their functionality, but as-is you can quickly get proficient in creating workflows.
- More featured tutorial for those using Semaphore as their first CI/CD service
-No longer relying on self-hosted CI/CD service
-Worries regarding previous CI/CD crashing have vanished.
- Code Push -> Deployed time greatly decreased.
I found Semaphore through on their deployment tutorials. After having spent hours fighting with a competitor's CI/CD feature, using Semphore to deploy a docker image to Kubernetes was a breeze. Semaphore builds Docker images much faster than any of the tools I tried and their UI is easy to navigate.
I ran into a technical issue with deployment and reached out to support. My issue was thoroughly researched by their customer support team and the reply I received provided a detailed explanation on how to fix the issue.
We have a very simple deployment pipeline and I'm yet to run into anything I don't like about the tool.
Semaphore has significantly decreased how long it takes us to deploy to production. Docker Images are built quickly and using their workflows we're able to deploy into production
It's really fast. We used CircleCI and I have feelings Semaphore is more than twice faster for less money.
Sometimes UI freeze or I have to reload the page.
We gave more check jobs to our system and auto promotion for deploy to testing environment. It's very easy to add new jobs and incredible fast, so our flow doesn't take a lot of minutes to end. So people doesn't have to wait long time to see if their work passed all checks
- RSpec boosters to automatically split and balance our test suite was the main attraction for us.
- The workflow/pipelines UI is great, we love the promotions feature.
- Support for private docker CI/CD environment and the abstraction S2 provides really simplified our setup.
- Caching is super fast and works great, it helped us reduce build time.
- Customer support has been great so far.
- It would be nice to have "steps" within a job for visual feedback in the IU. Currently the only way that's support is with multiple jobs, which in some cases isn't efficient since jobs are completely isolated and need to pull/setup all containers again.
- Restarting a single job isn't supported, the only option currently is to re-rerun the entire build.
We used to manually split our test suite to run as parallel jobs, it was difficult to maintain and balance. Semaphore's RSpec boosters solved this issue for us with a one-liner in our yaml config!
We're also making use of the pipelines and promotions to help automate our deployments.
We used to manually split our test suite to run as parallel jobs, it was difficult to maintain and balance. Semaphore's RSpec boosters solved this issue for us with a one-liner in our yaml config!
We're also making use of the pipelines and promotions to help automate our deployments.
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