GoCDhttps://www.gocd.org |
Bamboohttps://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo |
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Unique feature |
Free, open source CI/CD server
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Atlassian suite integration
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Type of product |
On Premise
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On Premise
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Offers a free plan |
Yes Free, open source software. They provide some Enterprise add-ons and support at a cost though. |
Yes The full Atlassian suite is free for open source projects (https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request). For all others, they offer a minimal free trial. |
Predictable pricing |
Yes For the Enterprise plans, they specify very clear tiers depending on the number of pipelines (directly correlated with the size of the organization) |
Yes They price their product based on number of build agents (more concurrency, more expensive). Given the notoriety and depth of the Atlassian suite, the pricing can be steep for small companies. |
Support / SLA |
Yes Paid support available for enterprise plans |
Yes Dedicated tehnical support. |
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 Up to 100 parallel agents |
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 They specify supporting tools like TLB (http://test-load-balancer.github.io/) which would require distributed builds. |
Yes Agents can run on multiple machines. |
Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Native Docker and Kubernetes support |
Yes By default, they offer Docker support for the CI/CD job runners. |
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 One of the greatest things about GoCD is their Value Stream Map which allows tracing every pipeline through every stage, from code commit, to testing and deployment. They also offer various dashboards for seeing status at a glance. |
Yes Excellent dashboards, even more so thanks to integrations with the other tools in the Atlassian arsenal |
Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes Allows managing users, assigning roles, and even defining user groups with specific rights for certain pipelines. |
Yes Great management support, built for large scale companies, even allows setting per-environment permissions (ie: QA team can only deploy to their own, isolated environment) |
Self-hosted option |
Yes
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Yes
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Hosted plans / SaaS |
No
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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 Fairly advanced support, from config files (YML, Groovy, JSON, etc) to API and UI interface for building and managing pipelines. |
Yes Advanced pipeline support - with features built for feature branch support, various triggers, schedules, external notifications and more. |
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 Wide array of plugins available: https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#artifact (although they seem to pride themselves on the fact that most common operations / needs are first class citizens, so no plugins needed) |
Yes Large selection (~200) of apps that integrate with Bamboo, available on the official marketplace for Bamboo: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/app/bamboo |
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 Available via plugins, such as the Gem repository poller: https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#package-repo |
Yes (partial) It looks like the documentation and features for Ruby are lagging behind. All I could find is this repo: https://github.com/drscream/bamboozled-ruby-plugin, following this support ticket: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-10948 from this documentation stub page: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo0601/getting-started-with-ruby-and-bamboo-935580774.html |
Specific language support: JavaScript |
Yes Available via plugins, such as the npm repository poller: https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#package-repo |
No No specific support, beyond some documentation on integrating Selenium (not marked as partial support since that documentation is only promoted in the Atlassian docs, but is hosted by BrowserStack) |
Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Integrations are also available via plugins (for notifications, LDAP authorization, Elastic agents and more): https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#notification |
Yes Deep integration with the Atlassian product stack (Jira, etc.). |
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 You can build on top of GoCD in a variety of ways, from writing custom plugins to using the CCTray feed provided by it. |
Yes
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Auditing |
Yes
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Yes
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Additional notes |
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Not really something that should be purchased separatelly from the Atlassian stack. |