Buildkite Pipelines | Build the flexible workflows you need

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Buildkite Pipelines

Flexible pipelines that adapt to the speed and scale of AI

Buildkite gives platform teams the tools to handle code at scale—unlimited concurrency, dynamic workflows that adapt at runtime, and guardrails to keep teams in control.

Buildkite powers the most demanding and sophisticated software companies in the world.

Scale on demand

Effortlessly provision the exact capacity you need with no limits on parallel builds.

Process workloads at unmatched speeds

Connect unlimited agents to blast through the volume of AI-generated code and scale to thousands of parallel jobs instantly as your development velocity increases.

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Operational controls to scale confidently

Monitor, control, and visualize all your pipelines in one dashboard that shows the health and performance of your pipelines.

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Smart scaling for monorepos

Process only what's changed across your repository, reducing build times and costs for large monorepos.

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Unlimited scale, predictable costs

Our P95 billing ensures you only pay for typical usage while ignoring occasional spikes, removing financial barriers to scaling your CI infrastructure.

The ability for Tinder to deliver software quickly and consistently is a strategic priority. To support our business, we require a software delivery system that can handle our scale and adapt to our unique requirements. Buildkite’s platform was the standout choice for us. It’s not just a solution for today; it’s an investment in our long-term strategy.

Aaron He

Aaron He
Senior Engineering Manager, Tinder

Composable primitives for adaptive pipelines

Construct CI/CD workflows that evolve in real-time, using code instead of YAML, to handle the dynamic needs of AI-accelerated development.

Flexible components that scale

Build pipelines that scale with your team’s needs using flexible, adaptable components and no limits on concurrency.

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Pipelines that adapt in real-time

Ultimate flexibility with agents that modify workflows on the fly as conditions change, responding dynamically to the probabilistic nature of AI-driven development.

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Create pipelines-as-code

Define workflows in your preferred programming language using the Buildkite SDK, unlocking powerful logic and flexibility impossible with static configuration files.

Build without boundaries

Choose where and how pipelines run-for each step of the build. Build agents can be self-hosted in your cloud environment or on-prem, or hosted by Buildkite with optimized solutions for macOS and Linux.

Buildkite provides us the scalability and flexibility we need to address the unique software delivery challenges we face, empowering our engineering teams to innovate and deliver value swiftly without getting bogged down by complexity. We’ve halved our build times with Buildkite.

Shesh Patel

Shesh Patel
Engineering Manager II

Developer-first CI experience

Empower your entire team with intuitive tools that eliminate CI complexity and accelerate delivery.

Visual clarity at every step

Analyze build dependencies, timelines, and bottlenecks through advanced visualization tools, with rich logs and emoji-laden annotations that provide instant, intuitive feedback.

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Accelerate with actionable feedback

Identify issues instantly through rich, searchable logs with quick feedback loops, early failure detection, and clear, actionable error messages that pinpoint solutions.

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Developer autonomy with guardrails

Empower teams to independently control their workflows while maintaining organization-wide security and compliance standards through flexible permission boundaries.

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Full control over your security

With self-hosted, fully hosted and hybrid options available, you can leave the orchestration to us while retaining full control over your code, secrets and security perimeter.

Hybrid, self-hosted and hosted options

Retain full control over your code, secrets, and security perimeter.

Set security boundaries

Fine-grained permissions to separate workflows based on organization requirements.

Embed security into your pipelines

Add governance and security checks in workflow definitions.

Enterprise ready security

Best in class security practices and reliability to keep your code inaccessible.

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