Category Semaphore News

In large teams and multi-project organizations, setting up and managing teams and projects can be a tedious and time-consuming errand. To make these tasks easier for our users, we are now providing all the CRUD actions for your teams through Semaphore API v2. This means that if you’re an admin or an owner in an […]

This post was written by Scott Anderson. It was originally published on the Nanobox blog. Semaphore is a continuous integration (CI) platform that runs your automated code tests and triggers specific actions based on the results. This article walks through how to use Nanobox and Semaphore to test your code and automate deployment.

We’re happy to announce the release of Semaphore API v2. The new API brings greater clarity, improves usability, and fixes the key issues in API v1. This new version is a complete rewrite of our API, both in terms of functionality, and the underlying design principles. Why is Semaphore releasing a new API version? Semaphore […]

We’re happy to announce that Semaphore’s continuous integration and continuous delivery service is now part of the GitHub Marketplace. GitHub is a key platform for millions of development teams, and it gathers one of the largest communities of developers. We’re proud to be one of the partners featured on their Marketplace. The Marketplace allows you […]

If you take heed of any of the many reports relating to cloud-native computing, then you’d be forgiven for thinking that every organization, large or small, is well on the way to a microservices-oriented application nirvana.

We’ve recently started redesigning Semaphore’s public API, and we’ve established some general guidelines and semantics for elements in the URI path. A good understanding of URI path element semantics can ease API usage, so we are presenting it here.

As any application grows in features, running all automated tests in the continuous integration (CI) environment begins to take a significant amount of time.

Fast feedback on the work we’ve done minimizes developer context switching and keeps us in the state of flow. Waiting for all the jobs to finish in order to see that a job has failed can waste a lot of time. If a job fails, the developer should have the option to be notified right […]

For a long time, Semaphore has been limiting your build command execution time to a fixed 60 minutes. This restriction worked great for the majority of builds on Semaphore, however there are some cases when this limit is simply not good enough.

By popular demand, we’re happy to announce that we’ve made some tweaks to Slack notifications coming from Semaphore. Here’s what our build and deployment notifications now look like: We experimented with different approaches, ranging from minimal to multi-line, rich format messages, and used them for our projects for several weeks. In the end, we settled […]

In the last week, news has spread throughout the CI/CD community about the announced shutdown of Snap CI, one of our highly-respected competitors. If you’re a Snap CI user looking for a new hosted CI/CD solution, here’s a comparison of Semaphore’s and Snap CI’s offering to help you decide if Semaphore is the right choice […]