When comparing Buildkite vs FinalBuilder, the Slant community recommends Buildkite for most people. In the question“What are the best continuous integration tools?” Buildkite is ranked 23rd while FinalBuilder is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Buildkite is:
The web UI allows writing a build script inline, running a script from your repository, or creating a whole pipeline. Docker support is built-in.
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Pros
Pro Very easy to set up
The web UI allows writing a build script inline, running a script from your repository, or creating a whole pipeline. Docker support is built-in.
Pro Allows parallel jobs
Buildkite allows you to configure your build in order to run parallel jobs and obtain considerably faster results.
Pro Scheduled builds
Run builds on a cron-like schedule to rebuild a master branch or run an import process.
Pro Run your own build servers
Run an agent on your own servers (AWS, etc) so that you have control over what your builds can access.
Pro Intergrates with VCS
Integrates with GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Server, GitLab, Codebase, or any custom Git repository.
Pro Affordable
One plan that gives you everything at a reasonable price.
Pro Plugin support for docker and docker-compose
Pro Concurrency control
Make sure only one deploy build runs at a time with concurrency control.
Pro Config driven build process
While you can define your build process in the dashboard, you can also run it from config files in the repository.
Pro Responsive support
Support respond quickly and listen to feedback.
Pro Well documented
One of the few websites with useful information about Code Signing with USB Tokens.
Pro Pre-written scripts available
FinalBuilder has more than 600 pre-written scripts (known as actions) available. These actions help automate common tasks in a build process. This saves a lot of development time because you don't have to write those common tasks yourself.
Cons
Con Not free nor open source
Con Diff on finalbuilder projects are clumsy
Con "Click button" interface
Con Builds are a little unintuitive
The language used in the documentation is a little ambiguous and FinalBuilder feels a little clunky when setting up builds.