Shippablehttps://www.shippable.com |
Dronehttps://drone.io |
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Unique feature |
N/A
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Customization
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Type of product |
SaaS / On Premise
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SaaS / On Premise
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Offers a free plan |
Yes Free unlimited builds for open source projects, 150 builds per month for all others (hosted plan). For the on-premise solution they only offer a 30 day trial. |
Yes The cloud version is free for open source projects. Also offers a free plan for any project, with a limit of 5000 builds per year. The on-premise version is available as a Docker image. |
Predictable pricing |
Yes Clear pricing based on number of concurrent jobs. They also allow a varied combination of platforms you want to run (Ubuntu, Windows, MacOS, CentOS) and provide a Bring Your Own Node option (so you can run builds on your own infrastructure) |
Yes Predictable pricing based on number of users and repositories. They have a calculator to help determine cost. |
Support / SLA |
Yes One of the few competitors to offer support tiers with clearly defined SLAs: https://www.shippable.com/premium-support.html as well as Services and Training: https://www.shippable.com/devops-services.html |
N/A It's not clear what their support commitment is. They have a fairly active community on Discourse, for community 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 One thing that stands out, is the shipctl CLI tool, which can automatically determine which tests to run in parallel, based on previous performance, such that a minimal amount of time is ensured: http://docs.shippable.com/ci/running-parallel-tests/#running-tests-in-parallel |
Yes Pipeline task configuration allows running tasks in parallel |
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 No specific mention. From the wording, multiple environments are certainly available, but it's unclear if the tasks can be distributed to multiple containers/VMs on the same machine, or multiple machines. |
Yes Pipelines can be configured to run on multiple machines, although they recommend that to be an option only if paralellizing tasks and scaling vertically doesn't suffice. They even support multi-platform distribution (ie: running tasks on various operating systems) |
Containers support / Build environment |
Yes Native Docker 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 Detailed statistics available at multiple levels (job, account, project, etc.). They also include a view they call SPOG (Single Pane of Glass) which allows viewing a real-time representation of all of the pipelines in the organization, from where you can drill-in to the leaf nodes you're interested in. |
Yes
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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 They offer in-depth documentation for user and server management. A lot of it can be done via the drone CLI tool, which seems to be the focal point of the docs. |
Self-hosted option |
Yes
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Yes
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Hosted plans / SaaS |
Yes
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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 Configurable via an YML file (called Assembly Lines) |
Yes Easily configurable pipelines via YML files. |
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 https://www.shippable.com/integrations.html |
Yes Drone CI allows integrating plugins into the CI/CD process. They have a list of available community plugins and provide documentation on building your own. Plugins are Docker containers which plug directly into the CI/CD process. |
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 Ruby is available by default on the Shippable container images. They also provide support for tools such as Cucumber or RSpec. Specific documentation for Ruby available on the website: http://docs.shippable.com/ci/ruby-continuous-integration/ |
No (partial) No specific support, but they do provide sufficient documentation on getting a Ruby project up and running, including a multi-platform example. |
Specific language support: JavaScript |
Yes Specific documentation for Node.js available: http://docs.shippable.com/ci/ruby-continuous-integration/ |
No (partial) No specific 1st party support, but the plugin marketplace features an NPM authoring and an NPM authentication plugin. |
Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes http://docs.shippable.com/ci/ruby-continuous-integration/ |
Yes Integrates well with source code management platforms (1st party support for GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket) as well as other systems via 3rd party plugins. |
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 Provides a straight-forward REST API: http://docs.shippable.com/platform/api/api-overview/. They also provide ways to integrate notifications in your workflow, via webhooks or specific channels (IRC, Slack, Email, etc): http://docs.shippable.com/ci/send-notifications/ |
Yes Drone provides a feature-rich REST API, as well as an official Go SDK for it. |
Auditing |
Yes
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Yes
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Additional notes |
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The fact that Drone works with any source code manager, as well as the fact that it can run tasks on multiple platforms makes it stand out from the rest. Very nifty! |