Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
GoCDhttps://www.gocd.org |
Semaphore CIhttps://semaphoreci.com |
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| Unique feature |
Free, open source CI/CD server
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Autoscaling made easy / Great CLI
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| Type of product |
On Premise
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SaaS
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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 1,300 service minutes every month. Plans to release a free tier for open source projects. |
| 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 Semaphore doesn't have traditional pricing tiers, instead it lists the types of machines you can use and their pricing per second of service. They plan to release an annual plan at some point. |
| Support / SLA |
Yes Paid support available for enterprise plans |
N/A Not clear if they offer any real SLA on 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
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Yes Allows defining a custom build matrix such that your build can be parallelized accross several different environments. |
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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 They specify supporting tools like TLB (http://test-load-balancer.github.io/) which would require distributed builds. |
N/A
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| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Native Docker and Kubernetes support |
Yes Allows running builds inside docker containers |
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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 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
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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
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| Self-hosted option |
Yes
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No
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| Hosted plans / SaaS |
No
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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 Fairly advanced support, from config files (YML, Groovy, JSON, etc) to API and UI interface for building and managing pipelines. |
Yes Allows defining complex build workflows with ease |
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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 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) |
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 Available via plugins, such as the Gem repository poller: https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#package-repo |
Yes Provides rich documentation on integrating Semaphore CI in Ruby projects. Also provides sudo access if you need to install system dependencies or C extensions. |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
Yes Available via plugins, such as the npm repository poller: https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#package-repo |
Yes Provides rich documentation on integrating Semaphore CI in Javascript projects |
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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 Integration with GitHub and Slack. They allow building iOS projects via their macOS Mojave VM image. |
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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 You can build on top of GoCD in a variety of ways, from writing custom plugins to using the CCTray feed provided by it. |
No
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| Auditing |
Yes
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Yes
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| Additional notes |
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List of features is based on Semaphore 2.0 |