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score 51 · Answer 1

GitLab CI

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Free and open source

All of GitLab CI's code is open source and under the MIT license. See More

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Parallel builds lessen test times

Tests are parallelized across multiple machines in order to reduce test times considerably. See More

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Highly scalable

The tests of GitLab CI run parallel to each other and are distributed on different machines. Developers can add as many machines as they want or need, making GitLab CI highly scalable to the development team's needs. See More

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Docker Intergration

Good integration with Docker. See More

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Quick setup for projects hosted on GitLab

Since it uses the GitLab API for setting up hooks, the setup of GitLab CI for projects hosted on GitLab can be done in one click. See More

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File based configuration

All build setup are stored in .gitlab-ci.yml file, which is versioned and stored in the project. Like Travis do. See More

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Kubernetes integration

Easy to test and deploy on Kubernetes. See More

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score 22 · Answer 2

Wercker

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Ability to create and use custom environments

Wercker is based on Docker and it allows developers to create their own deployment stacks inside Docker containers. These stacks range from programming languages, to services, and even to notifications. See More

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Free unlimited number of private repositories CI while in Beta

While in beta, Wercker offers unlimited free public and private repositories. See More

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Social networking elements

Wercker has an activity feed with which different team members can see and follow everything their colleagues have been doing. This gives the tool a certain social network feel, much like GitHub itself. See More

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score 14 · Answer 3

Bitrise

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GitHub and Bitbucket integration, also supports other Git services

Webhook server is also open source. See More

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Free plan available

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Visual configuration editor

The configuration can be specified without the need to change the code repository See More

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Dozens of service integrations

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Quick setup

Automatic repository scanner, to generate a base configuration. See More

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score 9 · Answer 4

AppVeyor

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Free for open-source projects

AppVeyor is free for public GitHub repositories. See More

Top Con

Not free

This is open-source but not free. See More

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Supports Windows build enviroment

AppVeyor has a build environment for Windows available. See More

Top Con

Configuration is limited

AppVeyor's configuration (which is done from the .yaml file in the root of the project) is unfortunately very limited. The configuration is either tied to a branch or, in other cases, it's global. This limits the developer to a single build process. However, since you can use arbitrary scripts for building, all those limitations can be overcome. Configuration can also be done from the web UI without a .yaml file. See More

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Clear, straight-forward user interface

Well I suggest you check it out for yourself, but what I like most is that it's simple yet effective: no bells and whistles, simple black/grey/light-blue/white color scheme, it's immediately clear where you have to go for each specific task, and build settings pages are like that as well. Getting a 'standard' build running literally took me a minute the first time I used it. See More

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Easy access to build VM

AppVeyor allows the user to login to the actual build VM. See More

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The initial setup is easy

There's practically no setup involved prior to working with AppVeyor: simply sign in, add the project, and start a new build. See More

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score 38 · Answer 5

Shippable

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Builds are faster

The fact that Shippable runs inside of Docker means that it keeps a persistent state and every build will not have to revert to initial state where it needs to install every dependency from the ground up. Classic CI tools that run on virtual machines need to reset their environment every time and every time install the gems, packages and services needed. See More

Top Con

Requires way to much permissions when logging in using Bitbucket

It even requests the permission to "Delete your repositories". See More

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GitHub and Bitbucket integration

Shippable supports both BitBucket and GitHub. Repositories uploaded on either of those services can be built using Shippable. See More

Top Con

No Direct Deploy to S3

Currently, Shippable does not allow for build artifacts to be natively deployed to S3. This can be gotten around, however it is a rather large hole when compared to Travis. In order to deploy to S3 you have to add a couple of lines to the yml file. For example: env: global: #secure variable contains values for AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - secure: HKwYujx/qmsyQQdHvR2myu8HLUDtcLeDyYV149YJuxIV4J7Hk3SxeY8X3D6aTlR8mvMnd/ZFY+tGNUh4G0xtLLjjZcPsBgvFlB build: on_success: - aws s3 sync $SHIPPABLE_BUILD_DIR "s3://bucket_name" --region "us-east-1" See More

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Free plan available

Unlimited builds for unlimited public repos and up to 5 private repositories. See More

Top Con

Docker security measures may be a hindrance

Shippable runs inside Docker containers. Docker has some specific security measures which may or may not become a hindrance in using Shippable. It may be harder for users who are not very comfortable with a Linux container environment and that can create some security problems. Even for more advanced users, it's still something more that they have to address while using Shippable. See More

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Docker integration

Shippable is built using Docker, a popular open source Linux container. It was originally built using it's own container but when that started to become too complex, they switched to using Docker. Since the beginning Shippable was different from other CI tools because while Shippable uses a container (Docker), traditionally CI tools have used virtual machines to manage their workloads. See More

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Quick setup

All Shippable needs for it's setup is a shippable.yml file in the root of the repository that needs to be built. The bare minimum Shippable needs is the language and the version number specified in that file. See More

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Integrated code coverage and test results visualization

No need to use coveralls or any other tool for code coverage visualization. Code coverage and test results are integrated into the product. See More

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Build as Code

Builds are described in the shippable.yml file located in the root of your project. This empowers engineers to take responsibility for code delivery. If you are coming from Travis CI, Shippable reads your .travis.yml file directly so you can try it out painlessly. See More

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Build on your own host

Teams can set up Docker containers on their own servers and run Shippable in there. See More

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Supports monitoring and tracking utilization and system performance for your devops automation infrastructure

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Cheaper than competitors

Plans are significantly cheaper than competitors. See More

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Testing against multiple runtimes, versions and environments

Supports builds against multiple runtimes, environment variables, and platforms. See More

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2X faster than any other platform

The accuracy & speed is 2x more compared to all the other available CI & CD platforms. See More

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score 7 · Answer 6

Solano CI

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Extremely fast parallel testing

Solano CI offers safe parallel execution and dynamic task distribution which finish builds automatically and up to 80x faster. See More

Top Con

No free OSS plan.

There is only a 14-day free trial available for Solano CI. See More

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Excellent customer support

Solano CI offer highly-responsive customer support, while extensive documentation and tutorial materials help customers keep Solano CI running in optimal condition. See More

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CLI interface

Solano CI has a CLI interface available, making it less time-consuming to work with and allowing for remote usage over the internet. See More

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Highly compatible and integrates easily with existing workflows

Solano CI supports popular languages seamlessly such as Java, C/C++, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Scala, PHP, and Go. It also works with Mercurial, Git, and Perforce via Git Fusion. See More

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Fully-managed cloud infrastructure

Solano CI provides cost-effective and resizable capacity. It also manages time-consuming systems' administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. See More

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Simple dashboard view and intuitive UI

Solano CI has a simple dashboard view that allows you to see test results in real-time, providing all relevant system output for failed tests. See More

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Build Pipelines feature

Build Pipelines allow users to chain together multiple Solano CI sessions into a Continuous Deployment pipeline. Each step represents a separate session, so each can run with its own set of parallel workers. See More

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score 3 · Answer 7

Google Cloud Source Repositories

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Integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services

Trigger deployments using Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Check out code securely (Service Accounts) from your Cloud Compute instances or Container Engine images. See More

Top Con

No inline editing

Unlike some other popular repositories, there is no way to edit inline directly from the source browser. Although, you can use the Cloud Console (web based terminal and web based editor) to check out your code; edit it using your favorite command line editor (or the web based editor); then save and commit your changes. See More

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Excellent security

Everything is stored encrypted in Google's datacenters. You can give fine grained control to other Google accounts and collaborate. See More

Top Con

Must set-up billing account

For all Google Cloud Platform projects you must enable Billing. This isn't uncommon for cloud hosting providers but it still could be considered a CON. See More

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Free tier

Cloud Source Repositories is free for up to 5 project-users per billing account. The free tier comes with up to 50GB free storage total and 50GB free egress per month. See More

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score 3 · Answer 8

Bitbucket Pipelines

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Provides time taken for each step

Eg: ./1.setup.sh 48s ./2.build.sh 56s With this information, it's easy to find out which line of the script is the bottleneck of the build process. See More

Top Con

Only 50 mins/month free usage

The Free plan only gives you 50 minutes per month to run the build. See More

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Great Jira integration

The same company Atlassian built Jira, which provides top-tier integration with Jira. See More

Top Con

Sparse documentation and examples

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Combined service: source control and CI

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score 27 · Answer 9

Kiln

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SSH support

Kiln offers you an option between HTTPS and SSH for security. See More

Top Con

Non-free

Kiln is not free, but it has the option for two users to try it for free first. See More

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User permissions features

With Kiln, teams can be created and individual users can be given different kinds of access to the repositories, this allows for a much tighter security. See More

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Git:Yes

SVN:No

Mercurial:Yes

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score 36 · Answer 10

Semaphore CI

Top Pro

Automatic Testing

Whenever a new push is made on GitHub or Bitbucket, Semaphore automatically runs tests on that branch. See More

Top Con

Proprietary with private project for $30/month

Semaphore is not free and nor is it open source. Pricing starts at $29 per month. However, there is a free option for private projects which have less than 100 builds per month and it's free for open source projects. See More

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Free for open source

Semaphore supports open source and offers unlimited open source projects. See More

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Complete customer support

Semaphore offers all-around customer support for its commercial users. See More

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Free 100 builds per month for private projects

Semaphore offers 100 builds every month for private projects. This package is free for an unlimited time and offers: free & unlimited deploys, unlimited collaborators and running tests in parallel. See More

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GitHub integration

Projects can be imported from GitHub and Semaphore will automatically connect with that repository, once that's done, it will automatically trigger for every code commit. See More

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Docker support

Out of the box Docker support. Additionally, Semaphore can cache Docker images by using included docker-cache commands. See More

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Easy to configure

Semaphore is quite easy to configure and work with. It easily integrates with GitHub and a first build is only a few clicks away. Semaphore is configured using .yaml configuration files which can be added from the web UI. There are a lot of tutorials out there that help developers configure Semaphore to their preference. See More

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score 19 · Answer 11

Drone.io

Top Con

Does not allow you to configure two projects using the same GitHub repo

Drone.io does not let developers configure two different projects against the same repository. Instead, one must fork that repository into a new one and use that to create a new Drone.io project. See More

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Easy self-hosted setup

Drone can be easily set up locally: all that's needed is Docker. See More

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Integrated with GitHub, BitBucket, and Google Code

Drone.io integrates perfectly with GitHub, BitBucket and Google Code. See More

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Docker integration simplifies deployment

Drone uses Docker containers to build and test code. Using Docker containers makes it easier for developers to then deploy this code to production. See More

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Gitea support

Supports Gitea (Git server). See More

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score 25 · Answer 12

Bamboo

Top Con

Very limited basic license.

Although they have $10 license it is very limited even for modest shops. Even next step of commercial license is very expensive for what you get. See More

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Fine-grained control over each environment the project needs to be deployed to

Bamboo is the only build server to offer first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery. Deployment projects automate the tedium right out of releasing into each environment, while letting you control the flow with per-environment permissions. See More

Top Con

Bamboo Cloud is going away in Jan. 2017

Migration to Bamboo Server is non-trivial and may not be worth the effort. See More

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End-to-end visibility when linked to JIRA, Stash and HipChat

When connecting Bamboo with Stash and JIRA, details like JIRA issues, commits, reviews and approvals follow each release from development to production. If HipCHat is part of the integration, team members get notified right away in addition to email notifications. See More

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Free open-source require application to use

Bamboo does offer a free option for open source projects though it requires the user to apply for it in order to use it past the free trial. See More

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Integration with Docker

Bamboo allows using Docker containers to create build agents. Using Docker agents lets you run multiple remote agents on the same host without conflicting requirements. It makes it easier to duplicate and distribute changes to build agents, and to use scripts for creating and maintaining agents. How can you define and build your own image and push it to a registry to share? This is when Bamboo’s Docker tasks come into play. Docker tasks make it possible to build an image, run a container, and push a Docker image to a registry from within your build or deployment project. See More

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Out-of-the-box support for Git branching workflows

Bamboo allows you to automatically detect and build new branches, merge branches together when tests pass and continuously deploy code to staging and production servers based on branch name. See More

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Test automation

Out-of-the-box features that let developers perform parallel testing on elastic agents and quarantine flakey tests. See More

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Easy enterprise-grade administration

Avoid plugin hell by having most important capabilities as out-of-the-box features, not plugins. Bamboo is not just built for teams, but teams-of-teams. It has the administrative features you need to manage and maintain CI at scale. Enterprise model for access control, management, and support. See More

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Bundled AWS CodeDeploy task

Deploying applications with AWS CodeDeploy was always possible by using Bamboo script tasks, and it's now an easier process with a bundled add-on and its accompanying CodeDeploy task. See More

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Integration with Amazon S3

Bamboo can also be integrated with Amazon S3 for unlimited storage. See More

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score 64 · Answer 13

Codeship

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GitHub & Bitbucket integration

Support for public and private GitHub and BitBucket repositories. It also has support for multi-user teams. See More

Top Con

Too many permissions on Bitbucket

When registering with Bitbucket Codeship it requests way to many permissions, even "Read and write to your team's projects and move repositories between them". Before giving all these permissions you have to be sure you can trust this service. See More

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Headless browser support

Alongside latest Chrome and Firefox, Codeship supports the use of Selenium, PhantomJS, CasperJS as well as tools like Capybara. See More

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Build status GIF

There's a continuously updated GIF of the build status of the repository allowing you to determine whether build was successful or not. See More

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Support for multiple tools, languages and databases

Support for e-mail, HipChat, Slack, Campfire, Flowdock, Grove, Webhook, Github Status API. Support for Ruby, Python, Node, Dart, PHP, Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Go. Support for: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, ElasticSearch, SQLite. See More

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Supports 7 cloud providers

Support for AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Google Compute, Joyent, Softlayer, Openstack. See More

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Docker support

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Simple deployments with a choice of 5 deployment tools

Support for Capistrano, Fabric, Chef, Puppet, Ansible and allows for writing your own scripts to deploy and manage your infrastructure. See More

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Supports 10 hosting providers

Support for Heroku, Engine Yard, Nodejitsu, dotCloud, App Engine, AppFog, Modulus, Openshift, Cloud Foundry, Fortrabbit and you can also run your own script to deploy anywhere. See More

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FTP, SFTP, SCP, RSYNC and SSH support

You can use FTP, SFTP, SCP, RSYNC and SSH for Continuous Deployment. See More

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Code Climate & Coveralls support

Automated code review for RoR and JavaScript and test coverage history and statistics with Code Climate and Coveralls. See More

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score 82 · Answer 14

Travis

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Free for open source projects

Travis is free for all public repositories on Github. See More

Top Con

Only GitHub support

It does not support BitBucket. So it's not in list for companies using BitBucket private or public repositories. See More

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Easy to set up and configure

All that is needed to set up Travis is a configuration file (travis.yml) in the root of the repository where it will be installed and Travis takes care of the rest. See More

Top Con

Non-free for private repos

Travis CI was first built to serve and help Open Source Projects, but now they also have added support for Closed Source which unfortunately is not free. See More

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Github integration

Travis registers every push to GitHub and automatically builds the branch by default. See More

Top Con

Relatively expensive

Commercial plans for Travis are relatively expensive compared to other tools. They start at $129/month. See More

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Supports most technological stacks

Supports the most widely used technological stacks (Node, Ruby, PHP, Python etc...) for free. See More

Top Con

No Windows support

Travis can only run tests on Linux and OS X operating systems; running tests on Windows is not currently supported. See More

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OSX & Ubuntu support

Travis' VM are built on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit Server Edition, with the exception of Objective-C builds, which are based on Mac OS X Mavericks. See More

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Multiple test environments for different runtime versions

Travis supports testing for different versions of the same runtime. All it takes is some lines in the travis.yml file. See More

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Supports more than a dozen languages

Support for C, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. See More

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Great community

Travis CI has a large and helpful community which is quite accepting to new users and provides a great number of tutorials. See More

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Private repositories and personal support w/ TravisPro

Starting at $129 you can use TravisPro, that adds the option of closed-source, private, repositories and personal support. See More

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Excellent website user experience

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score 1 · Answer 15

Distelli

Top Pro

Can deploy to any server, on any platform

Distelli suports all of the popular platforms and can be deployed to any server. See More

Top Con

Security concerns

Although Distelli is very easy to use and helps developers who don't want to spend time setting up their build environment, there are a number of security concerns regarding the tool. This is because you have to host an agent that allows RPC with a relatively unknown third party. See More

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Allows tracking deployments

Through Distelli, the user can track who deployed what application to what environment, as well as when it happened. See More

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Environment-specific commands

In Distelli, the user can set up environment-specific commands to run before, during, or after a deployment. See More

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Displays real-time logs

As the user deploys, real-time logs are displayed, providing useful information and giving the user an intuitive means off which he/she can operate. See More

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score 7 · Answer 16

Concourse CI

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Local iteration

Debugging on remote build agents is a nightmare (especially without isolated builds). Concourse CI can be run locally. When there are problems with the pipeline definition, it can be run and debugged locally. That means it takes less time to find and fix problems. See More

Top Con

Limited infrastructure options

The downside of building on BOSH is that a full, scalable deployment of Concourse CI requires AWS, vSphere, or OpenStack. If you don't already have these, any one of them can be a big effort to set up, just to get a build server running. Might not be a good fit for smaller teams. See More

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Flexible

Resources are to Concourse as plugins are to Jenkins. In other words, resources allow Concourse CI to do just about any work necessary in a build. But resources follow a "service provider interface" that makes them easy to build in any language (not just JVM languages) and have a clearly defined computing model, built for composition. Resources don't clutter UI or tax performance. See More

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Scalable, reproducible deployment

BOSH is an open source tool for release engineering, deployment, lifecycle management, and monitoring of distributed systems. Since Concourse CI is built on top of BOSH, Concourse can scale across many servers or be run in the Cloud. See More

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Isolated builds

Build isolation keeps workers "clean". There's no configuration drift of agents. Or flaky interactions between build jobs. See More

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Usable

Visual pipeline view makes it clear what the automation does. Simple navigation to logs makes it easy to understand what happened in a build. See More

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Simple

Concourse defines three primitives that, together, can express arbitrary features and pipelines. See More

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score 38 · Answer 17

RhodeCode

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High security

It's open source and it can be installed on your own machine, which gives high security and isolated environment for the codes. Whole application installation is super easy and independent from the Linux distribution. See More

Top Con

Hard to maintain and upgrade

The documentation is not very clear and it's hard to troubleshoot if there is a failure. See More

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Supports 3 major version control systems

RhodeCode supports Mercurial, Git and Subversion in a unified way that allows you to do code-reviews and other stuff on each of them. See More

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Centralized user management

User management is centralized around administrators which can give granular permissions to individual users or user groups/. These permissions can be related to allowing contributions, editing, or simply giving read-only access to users. See More

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Powerful and flexible code review

Code reviews can be done via Pull Requests, or simply commit-by-commit. There are voting rules, random reviewers pools, and smart comment invalidation logic. Pull requests are also versioned so it's easy to review partial changes after the author has updated his code. When you create a Pull-request you can add set of reviewers. They all have to vote and approve the PR. There's some flexibility on how the voting is accepted, it can be majority wins, or all-agree. Good practice is to add BOT accounts like jenkins, that also will vote on the review, based on for example tests run, and can forbid a merge because of a negative vote. In addition users can leave special type of comments that will also prevent merges, aka TODO notes. Once TODOs are resolved a Pull Request can be merged. See More

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Free and Open Source

RhodeCode CE (Community Edition ) is free and open source. Enterprise Edition (EE) adds premium support, corporate authentication. and tool integrations on top of the RhodeCode CE. See More

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Integrates fully with LDAP/AD and others

RhodeCode has auth plugins, now supported include: LDAP, LDAP with user groups, TOKEN, Container auth, PAM See More

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Online editing with preview

Files can be added, modified and deleted from the web interface, including adding directories, and uploading files. See More

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Best in class permission system

RhodeCode have the most advanced Permission system on the market, allowing things like permission inheritance, permission delegation. All comes in a format that doesn't get hard to manage at scale. See More

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Header authentication plugin allows auth delegation to 3rd party systems

The builtin header auth can delegate authentication to other existing systems for further validation chain. See More

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score 94 · Answer 18

CircleCI

Top Pro

Very fast parallel testing

Tests can be parallelized across multiple machines reducing test times drastically. They support up to 8-way parallelization. Additionally, CircleCI caches the build environment. See More

Top Con

Changes the environment without warning

Unless you count forum posts as a warning. A mysql upgrade caused days of debugging. See More

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Easy configuration with YAML

In most cases CircleCI automatically get settings from your code. When it fails, edit circle.yml. See More

Top Con

Does not cache docker images

The way to fake it is to save the image on disk, in the cache folder (it tars it), and restore it afterwards. But in tests it was slower than not caching. See More

Top Pro

Quick setup

CircleCI excels with its setup process. All that's needed is a GitHub login and CircleCI automatically detects the settings for Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java and Clojure. The setup process is their most widely praised feature. See More

Top Con

Docker is way outdated on the VM provided

Currently (October 5th 2016), Docker installed on the VM is: 1.9.1-circleci-cp-workaround, build 517b158, and docker-compose is 1.5.2, build 7240ff3. docker-compose in particular is almost too old to be used. See More

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Simple and intuitive GitHub integration

CircleCI can be connected to any project that is hosted on GitHub by logging in using the GitHub OAuth and adding the desired repository. Whenever a new commit is pushed to GitHub, CircleCI runs the tests that have been already defined and if none of them fails, the build is deployed to the runtime environment. See More

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SSH support

Users can access the Virtual Machine via SSH and run commands. See More

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Clean, intuitive UI

Circle CI's web UI is clean and easy to use. It gives all the information for a single build in a feed and gives the explanation for each step of the build, what it's doing and what the step is related to. On the top it displays author information and the time and date when the build was started and finished. This is all done by giving only the most essential information without clogging the screen. See More

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Supports 8 languages and 16 databases

Support for Ruby, Python, Node, Java, PHP, RoR, DJ, JavaScript. It also detects settings for Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java and Clojure. It als has support for: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Riak, Redis, SQLite, Solr, CouchDB, ElasticSearch, Neo4j, Couchbase, Lucene, Sphinx, ThriftDB, Memcache. See More

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Headless browser support

Alongside latest Chrome, Firefox and Webkit (installed using xvfb), CircleCi supports the use of Selenium, PhantomJS as well as tools like Capybara and Cucumber. See More

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Support for Queues

Support for RabbitMQ, Beanstalk and Resque through Redis. See More

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Supports Docker

CircleCI can continuously deliver Docker images to hosts that support Docker containers. See More

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Provides time taken for each step

Eg: ./1.setup.sh 48s ./2.build.sh 56s With this information, it's easy to find out which line of the script is the bottleneck of the build process. See More

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Comprehensive cache dependencies

Can specify the cache dependencies on checksum "package.json" Branch BuildNum Revision Environment.variableName For more details https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/caching/ See More

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Intelligent notifications

CircleCI can notify via email, Hipchat, Campfire and more. And it does so only when necessary. See More

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Can test many code pushes concurrently

You can push multiple batches of code concurrently. See More

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Supports 10 Continuous Deployment solutions

Support for Heroku, AWS, Engine Yard, dotCloud, Fabric, Nodejitsu, AppFog, Capistrano, Rockspace, Joynet. Integration with Heroku is solid with the ability to automatically deploy or merge branches. CircleCI is also very flexible with the deployment arrangement allowing SSH key management, deployment freedom including directly to a PaaS, using Capistrano, Fabric, arbitrary bash commands, or by auto-merging to another branch, or packaging code up to S3. See More

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score 286 · Answer 19

GitHub

Top Pro

Integrated issue tracking

GitHub has integrated issue tracking that makes hunting and solving bugs easy. Each project's issues page can be filtered by closed issues, assignees, labels and milestones. Issues are also sortable by age, number of comments and update time. See More

Top Con

Only public repositories are free

Unfortunately, GitHub offers closed repositories only for premium users, and the price is not cheap at all. See More

Top Pro

Provides free hosting for static websites

GitHub Pages is a feature that allows developers to create websites for their projects or anything they need a static website for, for free. See More

Top Con

Rule of thumb: 1GB per repository, 100MB per file

For most repositories this is acceptable, but for already large repositories with a long history, this may be a limiting factor. See More

Top Pro

Nice and usable UI

GitHub's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information. For example, the repository view displays only the most crucial data about that repo - on the top it displays the number of commits, branches, releases and contributors. When clicked, each of them will take the user to a page that displays more detailed information. See More

Top Con

Using it encourages other tools to integrate only with GitHub, leading to a monopoly

Top Pro

Anyone can fork

Any user can fork a project and submit a pull request. If accepted by the owner, the fork will be merged with the master branch. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Top Pro

GitHub makes it easy to find open source projects

GitHub is the largest host in the world for open source projects. Developers from all over the world fork and work on countless projects hosted on it. GitHub's search box is a powerful tool that allows developers to find open source projects in areas they are interested in and where they can immediately start to contribute. GitHub also has a page dedicated solely at exploring and finding open source projects, grouping them by each topic they cover. In the same view, GitHub displays trending repositories and sorting them by day, week or month. See More

Top Con

Owned by Microsoft

Top Pro

Large community

GitHub is the largest code host on the planet with over 21.4 million hosted repositories and many users. It's unarguably the largest VCS used by developers worldwide and as such, it has a vibrant community that follows it resulting in many guides and tutorials for new users. Even experienced developers can always find an answer to any question they may have. See More

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No OAuth2 support

In order to sign in to GitHub, users have to sign up first with unique credentials for GitHub only, so no option to sign in with Google+ or Facebook. See More

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Gist (Snippets)

Gists is GitHub's way to easily share code, text snippets or any kind of information with the world. They are an easy way to share text and they work as Git repos, which means that they are forkable and versioned. They are also fully compatible with Git. See More

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Very inconvenient UI

Very hard to switch between projects. See More

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Simplified team management tools

GitHub has easy and useful features to control teams, large and small alike. Team members can be given different powers on different projects, ranging from the ability to create them, to only being able to have read-only access. See More

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Convenient continuous integration with Travis CI

GitHub can be integrated with Travis CI for code testing and deployment, furthermore it is free of charge for free open-source projects. See More

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Supports Two-Factor authentication

GitHub has added another layer of security to their user accounts. This layer comes in the form of Two-Factor authentication. After it's enabled, GitHub delivers an authentication code by SMS, or by a free application for smartphones. After two-factor authentication is enabled, the authentication code is sent to the account owner's phone any time someone attempts to sign into their GitHub account. This means that only someone who has both the password and authentication code can sign into the account. See More

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Code search functionality

GitHub supports searching code. Whether it's from a specific project or from the whole website. What's more, GitHub has excellent SEO and you can easily find any line of code hosted on public repos on GitHub even from Google. See More

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Easy integration with cloud hosting services

Many widely used cloud hosting services are easily integrated with GitHub. Any project hosted on GitHub can be set up on these services in seconds. Some companies that offer this feature are: Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Heroku Windows Azure See More

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Excellent native apps

GitHub has native apps for mobile (iOS and Android), Windows and Mac, which make code deployment easier and faster. See More

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Support for mandatory code reviews

GitHub allows maintainers to make code reviews mandatory for any repository they choose. See More

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Student discounts

GitHub offers very good student discounts along with other things, such as AWS credits. See More

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Additional features for academics

For those with a valid .edu email or valid school ID there are additional benefits such as free private hosting. While it may take time for the account to be verified, it can easily be worth it. See More

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Project management tools available

GitHub has a tool called (quite intuitively) "Projects". It helps teams to organize and prioritize the work they are doing by creating roadmaps and release checklists. See More

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Bitbucket

Top Pro

Free unlimited private repositories for small teams

Bitbucket offers unlimited private repositories for free, as long as the number of members in a team is not larger than 5. In other words, it does not charge for each number of private repository, instead it charges by the number of team members. See More

Top Con

Private repositories are free for only 5 users

Private repositories are free for teams with 5 members or less. If a team is larger, then BitBucket charges for each additional team member. See More

Top Pro

Native application for both Mac and Windows

Atlassian, the company behind BitBucket is also behind SourceTree, a free application for Windows and Mac wich works as a client for both Git and Mercurial and can be connected to BitBucket and/or other code hosting services. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

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Integrated issue tracking system

BitBucket comes with an integrated issue/tickets management system. See More

Top Con

Not as stable as github

Users have experienced several half a day downtimes, almost every month. True, github is down once in a while, but when GitHub is down complaints breaks loose on Twitter, TechCrunch, and other major media outlets. For the past 5 years github has been down only three times, and two of these times they were attacked by major adversaries. See More

Top Pro

Multiple authentication methods

BitBucket supports Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Google and even GitHub authentication. See More

Top Con

Requires registration of a "universal atlassian account"

Not a big con for some, but annoying to others. See More

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JIRA integration

JIRA, the widely used project and issue tracker is developed by Atlassian, the same team that's behind BitBucket. When the two are integrated, JIRA automatically updates issues when a new commit is made in the BitBucket repo. See More

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Allows importing existing repositories

BitBucket has a feature which allows users to import an existing repository that has been hosted elsewhere. The process is very simple, either a service is selected from a dropdown menu and then a repo can be chosen and the URL for a repository can be added in the specified field. Once that's done, the repository is now uploade into BitBucket and can be edited, forked and compared to other repos hosted there. See More

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Supports hosting static websites

BitBucket supports uploading and hosting static HTML pages for it's users. See More

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Unlimited contributors for private repositories for students/educators

Atlassian offers student licenses for both students and educators for Atlassian products that will be used in a classroom setting for education. This includes BitBucket, which means that students and teachers can have unlimited private repositories with and unlimited number of contributors. See More

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Backed by a trustable company that has proved it's worth

BitBucket is developed and maintained by Atlassian, which is not an unknown venture, especially for developers. Atlassian has a great number of other products used by million of users worldwide, including JIRA, HipChat, Confluence and Stash. See More

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Mercurial support

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Easy Trello integration

You can link BitBucket with your Trello board easily. See More

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