Netlify Buildhttps://www.netlify.com/products/build/ |
GoCDhttps://www.gocd.org |
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Unique feature |
Deploy your sites to global Netlify infrastructure Every commit gets its own deployed version. Automatically attach a new Deploy Preview at a unique permanent URL whenever you submit a Pull/Merge Request. Set Netlify Build to deploy every branch in the repository for unlimited staging environments. |
Free, open source CI/CD server
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Type of product |
SaaS
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On Premise
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Offers a free plan |
Yes 300 build minutes/month, 1 concurrent CI build |
Yes Free, open source software. They provide some Enterprise add-ons and support at a cost though. |
Predictable pricing |
Yes Extra 500 build minutes costs $7/month. User seat $15/user/month. |
Yes For the Enterprise plans, they specify very clear tiers depending on the number of pipelines (directly correlated with the size of the organization) |
Support / SLA |
Yes 99.99% uptime SLA for Starter and Pro plan. Business plan has negotiable SLA. |
Yes Paid support available for enterprise plans |
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 Starter plan (free) has only 1 concurrent build but Pro plan has 3 concurrent builds included. |
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 |
Yes High-Performance Builds - The premium build environment gives more concurrency, processing power and asynchronous deploys. |
Yes They specify supporting tools like TLB (http://test-load-balancer.github.io/) which would require distributed builds. |
Containers support / Build environment |
Yes When you trigger a build on Netlify, their buildbot starts a Docker container to build your website. The buildbot will look for instructions about required languages and software needed to run your command before running build command. The instructions are called dependencies, and how you declare them depends on the programming languages and tools used in build. Build image selection is available. Until recently, all Netlify sites were built using the same build image. Netlify is experimenting with allowing customers to select from multiple Docker images with different operating systems and software versions. |
Yes Native Docker and Kubernetes support |
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 Simple dashboard to see CI builds. Other than CI analytics Netlify has Netlify Analytics that brings data captured directly from their servers for your website. |
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. |
Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes Team members managment. Role-based access control only in business plan. |
Yes Allows managing users, assigning roles, and even defining user groups with specific rights for certain pipelines. |
Self-hosted option |
No
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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, partially Simple steps, define your own steps in bash commands |
Yes Fairly advanced support, from config files (YML, Groovy, JSON, etc) to API and UI interface for building and managing pipelines. |
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. |
No
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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? |
No There are only small helpful things like incoming webhooks so other services can trigger Netlify deploys, and send outgoing webhooks as a deploy starts, succeeds, or fails. |
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) |
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 It has support for Ruby. |
Yes Available via plugins, such as the Gem repository poller: https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#package-repo |
Specific language support: JavaScript |
Yes It has support for JavaScript. |
Yes Available via plugins, such as the npm repository poller: https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#package-repo |
Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Netlify has incoming webhooks so other services can trigger Netlify deploys, and send outgoing webhooks as a deploy starts, succeeds, or fails. For instance you can integrate it with Slack. |
Yes Integrations are also available via plugins (for notifications, LDAP authorization, Elastic agents and more): https://www.gocd.org/plugins/#notification |
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 |
No
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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. |
Auditing |
N/A
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Yes
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Additional notes |
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