CodeFresh CIhttps://codefresh.io |
AppVeyorhttps://www.appveyor.com |
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Unique feature |
Built for Kubernetes
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Supports NuGet packages / Windows build environment
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Type of product |
SaaS / On Premise
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SaaS / On Premise
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Offers a free plan |
Yes Offers a minimal free plan (only one concurrent job, 3 users, various other limitations) |
Yes Free SaaS plan for open source projects. There is also a free on premise version, but it's quite limited (1 user, 1 team, community support) |
Predictable pricing |
Yes Easy price calculator, based on the number of machines, concurrent jobs and special features. |
Yes Very simple pricing plans: 3 options for the SaaS version, two options for the on premise option. No variable pricing. |
Support / SLA |
Yes Paid support for enterprise plans |
Yes All paid on premise plans offer support, as well as the two higher priced SaaS plans. Only community support available for the free on premise version and the lowest SaaS tier. |
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
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Yes Allows splitting tests to run on different VMs in parallel. |
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 Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
N/A
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Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Built for Kubernetes, so containers are a must. |
Yes Runs every build in a VM, and it offers several options depending on the plan (SaaS or self-hosted) as well sa personal preference. |
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 They seem to provide pretty great status overview, depending on the type of plan you're using. |
Yes The dashboard is not as great as for other options in the market, but allows seeing project status at a glance. |
Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes
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Yes Allows creating teams and assigning roles. There is some integration with GitHub Teams but the concepts are different which might be tricky depending on how the GitHub project is managed, for instance. |
Self-hosted option |
Yes Only available for enterprise plans |
Yes
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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 as code (YML files) |
Yes There is a single predefined possible pipeline, which defines various hooks (such as before_build / after_build). The pipeline can be configured via the UI or via an appveyor.yml file. The two are mutually exclusive, so it's either one or the other. |
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 Notifications are highly configurable, but visual reports such as code coverage is not easy to implement. |
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 Every step in a CodeFresh pipeline is a Docker image. A wide array of steps is available over at https://steps.codefresh.io/ |
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 Specific documentation for a sample Ruby-on-Rails project: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/learn-by-example/ruby/ |
Yes Many Ruby gems use AppVeyor as their CI server of choice. Among the features for Ruby are the pre-installed Ruby versions on both Windows and Ubuntu servers, as well as the appveyor-worker gem which makes it easy to report status during the build process. |
Specific language support: JavaScript |
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) |
Yes Comes with node.js and io.js versions pre-installed. Also offers documentation on npm integration on their website. |
Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes https://steps.codefresh.io |
Yes Probably the most notable aspect here is the large array of deployment integrations available (from simple FTP uploads to Azure servers or NuGet packages). |
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 Rich REST API available, well documented at https://g.codefresh.io/api/ |
Yes Offers a basic CRUD REST API for querying projects and builds as well as a real-time Build Worker API which can send updates on build status. |
Auditing |
Yes Audit logs available: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/enterprise/audit-logs/ |
N/A
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Additional notes |
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Very Windows oriented |