Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Cirrus CIhttps://cirrus-ci.org |
Scrutinizer CIhttps://scrutinizer-ci.com |
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| Unique feature |
FreeBSD support
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Ongoing statical analysis
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| Type of product |
SaaS / On Premise
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SaaS
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes Free for open source projects |
Yes Free for open source projects |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes Besides the seat (per-user access) you need to buy compute credits for running the build, priced differently depending on the machine you're running builds on. |
Yes Three different paid monthly tiers |
| Support / SLA |
N/A Not clear if they offer any real SLA on support. |
N/A Not specifically mentioned, probably not. |
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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 There are limits on how many tasks can be run in parallel for the free tier builds: https://cirrus-ci.org/faq/#are-there-any-limits |
Yes Automated parallalelization for code analysis, as well as support for running tasks in parallel |
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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 |
N/A
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N/A Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Allows containers or VMs for every major operating system. |
Yes Tests run in isolated containers. Docker support available. |
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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
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Yes Besides classic CI overview, they also provide static code analysis insights, which is a differentiator for Scrutinizer |
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
N/A
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Yes Additional seats available for every plan at $14.90 per seat, per month. |
| Self-hosted option |
Yes
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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 Defined via YML config files |
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. |
N/A
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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? |
N/A
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No
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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. |
No (partial) No specific support from what I can gather, but it does provide documentation for Ruby, including integration with the knapsack_pro gem. |
Yes Code analysis (automated code reviews) are available for Ruby, as well as specific documentation for setting up a Ruby project: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/guides/ruby. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails are supported. They also provide tools like bundler-audit, for identifying vulnerable gems: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/tools/ruby/bundler-audit/ |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
No No specific support and no documentation on setting up a CI/CD process for a Javascript project. |
Yes Automated code reviews are available for Javascript as well as specific documentation for setting up a Node.js project: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/guides/javascript. Typescript is also supported. |
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Integrates well with GitHub - the whole CI/CD process starts with a commit to a GitHub repo. |
Yes Light integration with third party systems, mainly code management frameworks like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab. |
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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 Provides a pretty nifty GraphQL API which allows querying the Cirrus CI Schema, as well as webhooks support for other types of custom integrations (such as Slack or IRC notifications, for example). They also added support for GitHub actions |
Yes Comprehensive REST API available: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/api/ |
| Auditing |
N/A From what we can tell, there's no specific support for auditing changes in the Cirrus CI config (other than what is traceable via git commits to the YML config file) |
N/A Unclear from the documentation, but most likely available. |
| Additional notes |
Seems to be used by companies with a solid engineering background (Google) |
The code analysis features seem great, the offer for similar tools is quite light. Seems similar to lgtm.com |