When comparing Spinnaker vs Drone.io, the Slant community recommends Drone.io for most people. In the question“What are the best continuous deployment services?” Drone.io is ranked 5th while Spinnaker is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Drone.io is:
Drone.io integrates perfectly with GitHub, BitBucket and Google Code.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can manage big environments
Pro Fast deployments
Pro Integrations
Supports a variety of other products.
Pro Integrated with GitHub, BitBucket, and Google Code
Drone.io integrates perfectly with GitHub, BitBucket and Google Code.
Pro Easy self-hosted setup
Drone can be easily set up locally: all that's needed is Docker.
Pro 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.
Pro Gitea support
Supports Gitea (Git server).
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 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.