Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Buildkitehttps://buildkite.com |
CodeShiphttps://codeship.com |
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| Unique feature |
Runs on own infrastructure, API
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Runs on own infrastructure
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| Type of product |
SaaS
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SaaS
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes Free for open source projects and selected organizations |
Yes Free for up to 100 builds per month |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes Clearly defined monthly and annual plans |
Yes Clearly defined, calculator, expensive |
| 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 Offers great dev 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 Via easy Yaml config file, limited by the specs of the machine you have purchased |
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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 |
No
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| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Since the agents run on your own infra, you're free to do whatever |
Yes Native support for Docker |
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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
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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 Full with organization and teams management |
| Self-hosted option |
No
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No
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| 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
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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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N/A
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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 |
N/A
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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 Fairly complete documentation on Ruby projects: https://documentation.codeship.com/pro/languages-frameworks/ruby/ |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
No
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Yes Fairly complete documentation on Node.js projects: https://documentation.codeship.com/pro/languages-frameworks/nodejs/ |
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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 Easy to integrate a bunch of 3rd party services, such as Code Climate, Codecov, Rancher, Pager Duty and many more: https://documentation.codeship.com/general/integrations/codeclimate/ |
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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 Custom integrations are possible: https://documentation.codeship.com/general/integrations/custom-integration/ |
| Auditing |
Yes
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N/A
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| Additional notes |
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CodeShip Pro gives you a lot more flexibility when defining your CI/CD process, plus you get your own AWS instance, so your build doesn't run on a shared server (this can be important for HIPAA or GDPR compliance, etc). |