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CI/CD Tools Comparison: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildbot, Drone, and Concourse

Published on July 25, 2017
πŸ‘ CI/CD Tools Comparison: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildbot, Drone, and Concourse

Introduction

Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment are strategies designed to help increase the velocity of development and the release of well-tested, usable products. Continuous integration encourages development teams to test and integrate their changes to a shared codebase early to minimize integration conflicts. Continuous delivery builds off of this foundation by removing barriers on the way to deployment or release. Continuous deployment goes one step further by deploying every build that passes the test suite automatically.

While the terminology above is primarily concerned with strategies and practices, software tooling plays a large role in allowing organizations to accomplish these goals. CI/CD software can help teams advance new changes through a series of stages automatically to reduce the time to feedback and remove friction from the process.

In this guide, we will compare some popular free and open-source continuous integration, delivery, and deployment servers designed to make collaborative software development easier. We will take a look at Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildbot, Drone, and Concourse.

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[Alex from Buddy] Hey Justin, if you ever decide to expand your list beyond free/open-source software we recommend to give a shot to our tool: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/projects/buddy-works-build-test-and-deploy-code-in-seconds. We decided to take a radically different approach from other commercial tools by making this whole CI/CD thing super-easy for newcomers (check out the GUI) + we do have a free plan for freelancers with no limit to resources. Take care & stay awesome!

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Great article, thanks a lot for sharing)

Why not? It is pretty interesting list as for me, esspecially I am really glad to see GitHub in itΠ± because many users forget about it at all

Hey Justin, great article. Thanks for the taking the time to do these comparisons. :)

This is a compendium of continuous integration software that supports a software engineering practice, continuous integration,[1] in which developers’ changes are immediately tested and reported when they are added to the mainline code base. The comparison of various continuous integration tools is done on the basis of platform, license, builders and Integration IDEs.

It’s unfortunate but I would not consider Drone.io going forward as their License and SourceCode model is changing drastically (source).

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