Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Rancher Pipelineshttps://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/project-admin/tools/pipelines/ |
Scrutinizer CIhttps://scrutinizer-ci.com |
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| Unique feature |
DevOps tool for container orchestration
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Ongoing statical analysis
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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 project |
Yes Free for open source projects |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes It's free! |
Yes Three different paid monthly tiers |
| Support / SLA |
Yes Paid support available: https://rancher.com/pricing/ |
N/A Not specifically mentioned, probably not. |
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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 You can run multiple parallel steps within a build stage |
Yes Automated parallalelization for code analysis, as well as support for running tasks in parallel |
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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 Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
N/A Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes
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Yes Tests run in isolated containers. Docker support available. |
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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 Not particularly clear, but it appears you can monitor stats in a Grafana dashboard: https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/project-admin/tools/monitoring/ |
Yes Besides classic CI overview, they also provide static code analysis insights, which is a differentiator for Scrutinizer |
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes User management is available, with specific roles assigned, or permissions to certain resources and projects |
Yes Additional seats available for every plan at $14.90 per seat, per month. |
| 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 Pipelines as code (YML files), but also manageable via the UI |
Yes Pipelines as code (YML files) |
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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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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? |
N/A
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No
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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. |
N/A Pipelines / CI is just a small part of Rancher. No specific support mentioned. |
Yes Code analysis (automated code reviews) are available for Ruby, as well as specific documentation for setting up a Ruby project: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/guides/ruby. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails are supported. They also provide tools like bundler-audit, for identifying vulnerable gems: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/tools/ruby/bundler-audit/ |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
N/A Pipelines / CI is just a small part of Rancher. No specific support mentioned. |
Yes Automated code reviews are available for Javascript as well as specific documentation for setting up a Node.js project: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/guides/javascript. Typescript is also supported. |
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Integrations available for GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket |
Yes Light integration with third party systems, mainly code management frameworks like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab. |
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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 REST API available. It provides introspection and documentation: https://github.com/rancher/api-spec/blob/master/specification.md#filtering. It should offer enough access to allow building whatever customizations or integrations with 3rd party tools deemed necessary. |
Yes Comprehensive REST API available: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/docs/api/ |
| Auditing |
Yes Allows logging to various systems (Kafka, Elastic, etc) which should make audit possible |
N/A Unclear from the documentation, but most likely available. |
| Additional notes |
Rancher is a full software stack for container orchestration, going as far as building their own Linux distribution (RancherOS). Using Rancher seems more like a decision to be made considering all other features Rancher offers, not just the CI server. Also worth noting that Rancher uses Jenkins under the hood, but the engine is locked so projects can't just be migrated between the two. |
The code analysis features seem great, the offer for similar tools is quite light. Seems similar to lgtm.com |