Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Buildkitehttps://buildkite.com |
Bamboohttps://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo |
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| Unique feature |
Runs on own infrastructure, API
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Atlassian suite integration
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| Type of product |
SaaS
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On Premise
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes Free for open source projects and selected organizations |
Yes The full Atlassian suite is free for open source projects (https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request). For all others, they offer a minimal free trial. |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes Clearly defined monthly and annual plans |
Yes They price their product based on number of build agents (more concurrency, more expensive). Given the notoriety and depth of the Atlassian suite, the pricing can be steep for small companies. |
| Support / SLA |
Yes Depending on the plan, ranging from community support, all the way to an assigned Technical Manager, SLAs and live chat support. |
Yes Dedicated tehnical support. |
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Paralellism
Every CI servers tends to address this differently (parallel, distributed, build matrix). Some of it is just marketing, and some is just nuance. For this table, parallel means that tasks can be run concurrently on the same machine, distributed means that tasks can be scaled horizontally, on multiple machines How to split tests in parallel in the optimal way with Knapsack Pro |
Yes Run an unlimited number of concurrent agents, and an unlimited number of concurrent jobs. You can run your tests in isolated Docker container per agent. |
Yes Up to 100 parallel agents |
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Distributed builds
distributed means that tasks can be scaled horizontally, on multiple machines How to split tests in parallel in the optimal way with Knapsack Pro |
Yes Run an unlimited number of concurrent agents, and an unlimited number of concurrent jobs |
Yes Agents can run on multiple machines. |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Since the agents run on your own infra, you're free to do whatever |
Yes By default, they offer Docker support for the CI/CD job runners. |
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Analytics / Status overview
Analytics and overview referrs to the ability to, at a glance, see what's breaking (be it a certain task, or the build for a specific project) |
Yes The Buildkite UI features great vizualisations that feature build times, error rates, and more. |
Yes Excellent dashboards, even more so thanks to integrations with the other tools in the Atlassian arsenal |
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes
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Yes Great management support, built for large scale companies, even allows setting per-environment permissions (ie: QA team can only deploy to their own, isolated environment) |
| Self-hosted option |
No
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Yes
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| Hosted plans / SaaS |
Yes
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No
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Build pipelines
A continuous delivery pipeline is a description of the process that the software goes through from a new code commit, through testing and other statical analysis steps all the way to the end-users of the product. |
Yes Pipelines are defined using an Yaml config file and allow for great flexibility in defining what each step of the process does. |
Yes Advanced pipeline support - with features built for feature branch support, various triggers, schedules, external notifications and more. |
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Reports
Reports are about the abilty to see specific reports (like code coverage or custom ones), but not necesarily tied in into a larger dashboard. |
Yes
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Yes
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Ecosystem
Besides the official documentation and software, is there a large community using this product? Are there any community-driven tools / plugins that you can use? |
Yes Integrations for GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket as well as SSO support (Google Suite, SAML, GraphQL API). Growing number of community plugins: https://buildkite.com/plugins |
Yes Large selection (~200) of apps that integrate with Bamboo, available on the official marketplace for Bamboo: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/app/bamboo |
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Specific language support: Ruby
Some CI servers have built-in support for parsing RSpec or Istanbul output for example and we mention those. Some others make it even easier by detecting Gemfiles or package.json and automate parts of the process for the developer. |
Yes You can find useful plugins like https://github.com/sj26/rspec-buildkite https://github.com/ticky/simplecov-buildkite etc |
Yes (partial) It looks like the documentation and features for Ruby are lagging behind. All I could find is this repo: https://github.com/drscream/bamboozled-ruby-plugin, following this support ticket: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-10948 from this documentation stub page: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo0601/getting-started-with-ruby-and-bamboo-935580774.html |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
No
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No No specific support, beyond some documentation on integrating Selenium (not marked as partial support since that documentation is only promoted in the Atlassian docs, but is hosted by BrowserStack) |
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Integrations for GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket as well as SSO support (Google Suite, SAML, GraphQL API) |
Yes Deep integration with the Atlassian product stack (Jira, etc.). |
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API
Custom integreation is available, via an API or otherwise, it's mentioned separately as it allows further customization than any of the Ecosystem/Integration options |
Yes Great GraphQL API, allows building your own dashboard with ease |
Yes
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| Auditing |
Yes
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Yes
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| Additional notes |
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Not really something that should be purchased separatelly from the Atlassian stack. |