Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Github Actionshttps://github.com/features/actions |
TeamCityhttps://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ |
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| Unique feature |
Best GitHub integration possible
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Technology awareness
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| Type of product |
SaaS / On Premise
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On Premise
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes The on premise plan (not yet available) will be free, 2000 build minutes included in the free cloud plan. Completely free plan for open source projects. |
Yes They offer a great free professional plan, limited to 100 build configurations and 3 build agents. From there, you pay for each aditional agent you want (discounts if you purchase more than 1 agent at a time). They also provide a free plan for open source, non commercial projects, and steep 50% discounts for startups. |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes (partial) While it's clear what the cost is (priced per build-minute), figuring out costs can be a hassle, especially as the price can vary quite a bit depending on commits to the project. One advantage for GitHub Actions is that the tiers define a maximum amount of minutes, so it's easier to predict the final cost. You can also purchase aditional runners with pricing dependent on the platform (MacOS, Linux, Windows) |
Yes They have a clear list of prices per number of agents. |
| Support / SLA |
Yes Community support available for any tier, unclear at what point and if dedicated support is available. Safe to assume that eneterprise clients can access technical support. |
Yes
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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 Matrix builds allow concurrent jobs, even multi-platform. |
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 |
N/A No specific mention, but given the fact that tasks can be run on multiple platforms, it's likely that distributed builds are also available. |
N/A No specific mention that we could find, but judging by the wording used it would appear that tasks can be divided accross different machines. |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Linux, macOS, Windows, and containers, or run directly in a VM. |
Yes First class Docker support, among others |
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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 Minimal status overview definitely available, with live logs and GitHub integration. Unclear how far it goes. |
Yes Great system overview, even allows building your own dashboards in order to see everything you're interested in at a glance. |
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
N/A Unclear from the available documentation |
Yes Allows assigning roles, LDAP and Windows domain integrations and more. |
| Self-hosted option |
Yes Coming soon, not available yet. |
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 Called GitHub Action Workflows, they are defined in separate Docker containers, using the YAML syntax (they used to support HCL, but they're migrating away from that) |
Yes Unlike most options in the CI/CD space, TeamCity allows defining pipelines using a Kotlin-based DSL. This unlocks a lot of potential, such as templates for common CI/CD tasks, and deep integration with various IDEs (not just JetBrains IDEs) |
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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 Unclear from the available documentation |
Yes Something that stands out from the rest, allows integrating third party reports, as long as they produce HTML output. |
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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 Thanks to the large following, GitHub Actions already enjoys a wide varierty of available pre-made workflows, which you can browse right on the homepage: https://github.com/features/actions |
Yes JetBrains has a rich ecosystem of plugins in general. |
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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 Unclear how, but they mention Ruby support specifically on the homepage |
Yes Using what they call 'Technology Awareness', promises great intehration with Ruby projects, with features such as testing framework support, static analysis and code coverage available out of the box, with no additional work required: https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/features/technology_awareness.html |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
Yes Unclear how, but they mention Javascript (Node.js) support specifically on the homepage |
No (partial) Unlike Ruby, there's no first class support for Javascript, although they do advertise the fact that their large collections of plugins can cover any use case for Javascript projects: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/teamcity |
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Integrations made possible via the shared third party workflows available (AWS, Azure, Zeit, Kubernetes and many more) |
Yes Great cloud integrations (Google Cloud, AWS, VMWare, etc) as well as 'key' integrations (VSCode, Jira, even NuGet) |
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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 |
N/A Unclear at the moment, but assume GitHub Actions will be integrated with the GitHub GraphQL API (one of the more mature GraphQL API implementations available) |
Yes Unlike most tools, which offer just a Rest API, TeamCity provides ample opportunity for extension via plugins, their own API, and service messages (formatted messages on stdout) |
| Auditing |
N/A
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Yes
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| Additional notes |
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Great ecosystem, with a strong focus on integration with other tools (not only JetBrains). |