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Solano CI vs CodeFresh CI comparison of Continuous Integration servers
What are the differences between Solano CI and CodeFresh CI?

Solano CI

https://xebialabs.com/technology/solano-ci/

CodeFresh CI

https://codefresh.io
Unique feature

N/A

Built for Kubernetes

Type of product

N/A

SaaS / On Premise

Offers a free plan

No

Their website only mentions a free trial

Yes

Offers a minimal free plan (only one concurrent job, 3 users, various other limitations)

Predictable pricing

No

Very hard to get any information on pricing. It seems like they target enterprise clients only.

Yes

Easy price calculator, based on the number of machines, concurrent jobs and special features.

Support / SLA

N/A

Yes

Paid support 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

N/A

They mention that by paralellizing tests they get a huge performance boost (10x to 80x) but details are severly lacking.

Yes

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

N/A

Unclear from the documentation (probably not)

Containers support / Build environment

Yes

Yes

Built for Kubernetes, so containers are a must.

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

They seem to provide pretty great status overview, depending on the type of plan you're using.

Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on

N/A

Yes

Self-hosted option

N/A

Yes

Only available for enterprise plans

Hosted plans / SaaS

N/A

Yes

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 as code (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.

N/A

Yes

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

Every step in a CodeFresh pipeline is a Docker image. A wide array of steps is available over at https://steps.codefresh.io/

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

Yes

Specific documentation for a sample Ruby-on-Rails project: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/learn-by-example/ruby/

Specific language support: JavaScript

N/A

Yes

There's an 'npm publish' step available, and they also provide a few Javascript examples over at https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/learn-by-example/nodejs/ (one is just a sample, one is a little more complex, using Redis, Python, etc., and one is a React App)

Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc)

N/A

Yes

https://steps.codefresh.io

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

N/A

Yes

Rich REST API available, well documented at https://g.codefresh.io/api/

Auditing

N/A

Yes

Audit logs available: https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/enterprise/audit-logs/

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/

How to use Codefresh matrix parallel steps to run parallel tests in Ruby on Rails

Cypress Parallel testing on Codefresh.io

CodeFresh CI parallelism integration

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