Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Semaphore CIhttps://semaphoreci.com |
Rancher Pipelineshttps://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/project-admin/tools/pipelines/ |
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| Unique feature |
Autoscaling made easy / Great CLI
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DevOps tool for container orchestration
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| Type of product |
SaaS
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On Premise
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes 1,300 service minutes every month. Plans to release a free tier for open source projects. |
Yes Free, open source project |
| Predictable pricing |
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. |
Yes It's free! |
| Support / SLA |
N/A Not clear if they offer any real SLA on support. |
Yes Paid support available: https://rancher.com/pricing/ |
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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 Allows defining a custom build matrix such that your build can be parallelized accross several different environments. |
Yes You can run multiple parallel steps within a build stage |
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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
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N/A Unclear from the documentation (probably not) |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Allows running builds inside docker containers |
Yes
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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
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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/ |
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes
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Yes User management is available, with specific roles assigned, or permissions to certain resources and projects |
| 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 Allows defining complex build workflows with ease |
Yes Pipelines as code (YML files), but also manageable via the UI |
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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
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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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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 Provides rich documentation on integrating Semaphore CI in Ruby projects. Also provides sudo access if you need to install system dependencies or C extensions. |
N/A Pipelines / CI is just a small part of Rancher. No specific support mentioned. |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
Yes Provides rich documentation on integrating Semaphore CI in Javascript projects |
N/A Pipelines / CI is just a small part of Rancher. No specific support mentioned. |
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Integration with GitHub and Slack. They allow building iOS projects via their macOS Mojave VM image. |
Yes Integrations available for GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket |
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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 |
No
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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. |
| Auditing |
Yes
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Yes Allows logging to various systems (Kafka, Elastic, etc) which should make audit possible |
| Additional notes |
List of features is based on Semaphore 2.0 |
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. |