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IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery

Score9.9 out of 10

34 Reviews and Ratings

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What is IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery?

IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Search

    Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.

    Category average: 6.4

  • Visual planning tools

    Includes visual tools such as pinboards, mind-maps, or charts for collaborative brainstorming and/or workflow planning.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Scheduling

    Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Code Review

    Product allows developers to perform code reviews.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Dependencies and Blockers

    Product allows tasks to be blocked or to block other tasks, communicating dependencies to team members.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Velocity Calculation

    Product uses historical data to calculate team velocity and help understand how much time future work will take.

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery.
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AKG-IBMCDT.

Incentivized
A. Kıvanç GülerView profile
Hybrid Cloud Automation Sales Leader, Finance in Sales at IBM (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Developer Tools and embedded CLI tool help to manage all the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services of the IBM cloud in an easy and fast way. Especially the part of the Infrastructure as a coding strategy is tightly attached to the corresponding developer tools like IBM Cloud Developer Tools and the attached CLI.

Pros

  • Infra As a code.
  • DevOps
  • Cloud Automation.
  • Security

Cons

  • Terraform Support.
  • Multi Cloud Management.
  • Development Agility.

Most Important Features

  • HybridCloud management.
  • RBAC
  • Kubernetes CLI
  • Infrastructure Management

Return on Investment

  • Development Agility.
  • Infrastructure as a code.
  • DevSecOps.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle API Platform Cloud, HashiCorp Terraform and Azure DevOps Services

Other Software Used

HashiCorp Terraform, Oracle API Platform Cloud, Azure DevOps Services

Great Collaborative Tool

Incentivized
Rajat WadhwaniView profile
Specialist Technical Data in Information Technology at Shell (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

DIY has become an integral part to automate repetitive tasks. Sending out mails whenever there are any update to the request or developing a request management tool with no coding or very low coding has enabled staff to eliminate mundane tasks and spend more time in high value tasks in their role.

Pros

  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Automate Workflows

Cons

  • More APIs required
  • Better Integration
  • Cost of cloud services

Most Important Features

  • Easy deployment and integration
  • cloud deployment
  • Easy to train staff

Return on Investment

  • Agile culture
  • Project Management
  • Collaboration increase

Alternatives Considered

Azure App Service and GitHub

Other Software Used

Google Cloud AI, Azure App Service, Microsoft Power BI

IBM Cloud Developer Tools augment Purple Squirrels acceleration into a cloud native enterprise.

Incentivized
🐿 Matthew KarstenView profile
CEO in Corporate at Purple Squirrel Media (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Developer Tools and CLI make it possible for Purple Squirrels to accelerate the journey into IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud CLI provides a substantial increase in speed and scalability when it comes to the build, deployment and maintenance of enterprise assets. IBM Cloud Developer tools offer a rich suite of integrations and plugins to be applied to a wide variety of business use cases from building, deployment, and even automation of business processes. Our enterprise utilizes the wide range of IBM Cloud Developer tools to serve clients, solutions and cloud native processes to accelerate the journey into the cloud.

Pros

  • Easy to build, deploy and maintain applications in IBM Cloud
  • Rich suite of 3rd party plugins
  • Clear pricing and many free offerings for startups

Cons

  • Searchability of developer documentations could be easier
  • learning resources could be easier to access
  • always love opening fewer tabs

Most Important Features

  • Support from IBM developers
  • Great things come in small plugins
  • remote collaboration with enterprise capabilities

Return on Investment

  • IBM cloud has a largely positive ROI for startups and enterprises with innovative solutions
  • Access, security, and enterprise solutions
  • Positive relations, knowledge acceleration, enterprise support

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, IBM Cloud Developer Tools, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server)

Best at This Price Plan Offerings

Saurabh Shukla
Python trainee in Engineering at Silvertouch Technologies (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use [the] IBM Cloud Developer tool to build AI chatbots which helps companies and users in various ways like FAQs answering, required information gathering from datasets, and documentation.

Pros

  • Voice chatbot
  • Discovery
  • App integration

Cons

  • Speech recognition in speech to text
  • Cloud pak for data

Most Important Features

  • Skills
  • Web integration
  • Text to speech
  • Nodered

Return on Investment

  • Speech to text's lack of word recognition leads to improper output sometimes
  • Nodered flow for integration of app is too good

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud AI

Other Software Used

Google Cloud AI

A secure tool for the continuous delivery process.

Incentivized
Kayla RisherView profile
Analyst in Marketing at Social Finance (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Its deployment templates are time savers and are very useful for us.
  • Its integration with Cloud applications is its strength as it helped in making our work easy.
  • It offers much flexibility.
  • It is amazing in development, deployment, and delivery.

Cons

  • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
  • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
  • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.

Most Important Features

  • Templates.
  • The flexibility it provides.
  • Integration feature, that works efficiently.

Return on Investment

  • With the help of its templates, we can save time.
  • Our developers are gladly using this tool and it enabled them to develop applications within less time.
  • For me, it has no negative impact on my team and business as well.

Alternatives Considered

Jenkins

Other Software Used

REVE Antivirus, Nutshell CRM, Cisco Meeting Server

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