Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Buildkitehttps://buildkite.com |
CodeFresh CIhttps://codefresh.io |
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| Unique feature |
Runs on own infrastructure, API
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Built for Kubernetes
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| Type of product |
SaaS
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SaaS / On Premise
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes Free for open source projects and selected organizations |
Yes Offers a minimal free plan (only one concurrent job, 3 users, various other limitations) |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes Clearly defined monthly and annual plans |
Yes Easy price calculator, based on the number of machines, concurrent jobs and special features. |
| 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 Paid support for enterprise plans |
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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
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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 |
N/A Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Since the agents run on your own infra, you're free to do whatever |
Yes Built for Kubernetes, so containers are a must. |
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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 They seem to provide pretty great status overview, depending on the type of plan you're using. |
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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
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| Self-hosted option |
No
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Yes Only available for enterprise plans |
| Hosted plans / SaaS |
Yes
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Yes
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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 Pipelines as code (YML files) |
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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 Every step in a CodeFresh pipeline is a Docker image. A wide array of steps is available over at https://steps.codefresh.io/ |
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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 Specific documentation for a sample Ruby-on-Rails project: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/learn-by-example/ruby/ |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
No
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Yes There's an 'npm publish' step available, and they also provide a few Javascript examples over at https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/learn-by-example/nodejs/ (one is just a sample, one is a little more complex, using Redis, Python, etc., and one is a React App) |
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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 https://steps.codefresh.io |
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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 Rich REST API available, well documented at https://g.codefresh.io/api/ |
| Auditing |
Yes
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Yes Audit logs available: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/enterprise/audit-logs/ |
| Additional notes |
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