JetBrains s.r.o., a developer of extended integrated development environments for many programming languages, today announced the launch of TeamCity Cloud, a software-as-a-service product aimed at helping DevOps teams streamline continuous integration and continuous delivery for software development.

TeamCity Cloud helps DevOps teams during the build, test and deployment phases of software by making it easier to automate routine developer tasks in the lifecycle of development. It also provides tools to configure, monitor and optimize the release process.

TeamCity Cloud is based on JetBrains TeamCity, a general-purpose CI/CD solution from JetBrains that provides high flexibility for DevOps teams for many workflows and development practices. It’s designed to integrate multiple version control systems into a single build pipeline. That allows a single TeamCity instance to maintain visibility for DevOps pipelines across an entire organization.

TeamCity has specialized views for every member of DevOps teams including developers, engineers, testers, managers and administrators. And its interfaces and back ends are designed to integrate the tools needed to hook in and automate the tasks needed to alert the people who need to know and either push forward or pull back issues in the pipeline in the CI/CD lifecycle to keep things moving.

In this manner, tedious manual processes can be automated away by scripting them, potential pitfalls can be detected beforehand by detecting them beforehand by mapping them out in team views with teamwide visibility and the people who “need to know” remain “in the know” when issues arise.

All of this is also done in the cloud based on a product JetBrains already offered in an on-premises version that integrates with tools, back-ends, IDEs and other tools its customers have been using for years.

During its yearlong beta program, TeamCity Cloud onboarded more than 5,000 companies. As a result, JetBrains is confident that the service can run smoothly at large scale, across multiple platforms and with key integrations in place for its inaugural launch.

“We recently embarked on this entire rewrite of our core functionality,” said Michael Squitieri, vice president of Engineering at RealtyCrunch Inc. “And we started with such a large focus on CI/CD and TeamCity Cloud from day one. We decided, okay, TeamCity is going to be the product that we want to use. I’ve used TeamCity now across four different companies. And we’ve always appreciated their really clean, simple interface.”

Following a 14-day free trial, TeamCity Cloud users can run an unlimited number of builds concurrently and have an unlimited number of users accessing the service.

Pricing is based on the number of committers – that is, users that make more than 10 code commits over a 30-day period. It starts at $45 per month for three committers and 24,000 build credits, which provides up to 2,400 build minutes per month.

JetBrains is a well-known company that has worked across the industry with its IDEs and tools. TeamCity itself is in use by more than 30,000 customers, including Citibank, Ubisoft Entertainment SA, Facebook Inc.’s Oculus VR, Wargaming Group Ltd. and Ferrari S.p.A.

“We believe that TeamCity Cloud will bring the power and the deep expertise of the on-premises TeamCity to the cloud CI/CD market, allowing the companies of all sizes to orchestrate and streamline their DevOps pipelines,” said JetBrains Chief Executive Max Shafirov.

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