Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
Solano CIhttps://xebialabs.com/technology/solano-ci/ |
Buildkitehttps://buildkite.com |
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| Unique feature |
N/A
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Runs on own infrastructure, API
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| Type of product |
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SaaS
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| Offers a free plan |
No Their website only mentions a free trial |
Yes Free for open source projects and selected organizations |
| Predictable pricing |
No Very hard to get any information on pricing. It seems like they target enterprise clients only. |
Yes Clearly defined monthly and annual plans |
| Support / SLA |
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Yes Depending on the plan, ranging from community support, all the way to an assigned Technical Manager, SLAs and live chat 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 |
N/A They mention that by paralellizing tests they get a huge performance boost (10x to 80x) but details are severly lacking. |
Yes Run an unlimited number of concurrent agents, and an unlimited number of concurrent jobs. You can run your tests in isolated Docker container per agent. |
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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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Yes Run an unlimited number of concurrent agents, and an unlimited number of concurrent jobs |
| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes
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Yes Since the agents run on your own infra, you're free to do whatever |
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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 The wording they use implies that this is possible. |
Yes The Buildkite UI features great vizualisations that feature build times, error rates, and more. |
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
N/A
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Yes
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| Self-hosted option |
N/A
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No
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| Hosted plans / SaaS |
N/A
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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 The wording they use suggests that this is possible. |
Yes Pipelines are defined using an Yaml config file and allow for great flexibility in defining what each step of the process does. |
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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 Probably not, considering how non-transparent this product is. |
Yes Integrations for GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket as well as SSO support (Google Suite, SAML, GraphQL API). Growing number of community plugins: https://buildkite.com/plugins |
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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
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Yes You can find useful plugins like https://github.com/sj26/rspec-buildkite https://github.com/ticky/simplecov-buildkite etc |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
N/A
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No
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
N/A
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Yes Integrations for GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket as well as SSO support (Google Suite, SAML, GraphQL API) |
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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 |
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Yes Great GraphQL API, allows building your own dashboard with ease |
| Auditing |
N/A
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Yes
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| Additional notes |
It seems like Solano CI has been retired, and the new solution is the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform, but which integrates Jenkins and Travis, among others: https://xebialabs.com/products/devops-platform-overview/ |
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