When comparing Spinnaker vs AppVeyor, the Slant community recommends AppVeyor for most people. In the question“What are the best continuous deployment services?” AppVeyor is ranked 2nd while Spinnaker is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose AppVeyor is:
AppVeyor is free for public GitHub repositories.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can manage big environments
Pro Fast deployments
Pro Integrations
Supports a variety of other products.
Pro Free for open-source projects
AppVeyor is free for public GitHub repositories.
Pro Supports Windows build enviroment
AppVeyor has a build environment for Windows available.
Pro 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.
Pro Easy access to build VM
AppVeyor allows the user to login to the actual build VM.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con Not Windows oriented
Con Configuration
An external tool (halyard) is needed for configuration and a machine with at least 12GB of memory on which to install Halyard, this can be a local machine or VM (Ubuntu 14.04/16.04, Debian, or macOS), or it can be a Docker container.
Con Not free
This is open-source but not free.
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.