Knapsack Pro
Knapsack Pro
TeamCityhttps://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ |
Google Cloud Buildhttps://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/ |
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| Unique feature |
Technology awareness
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Security / speed
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| Type of product |
On Premise
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SaaS
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| Offers a free plan |
Yes They offer a great free professional plan, limited to 100 build configurations and 3 build agents. From there, you pay for each aditional agent you want (discounts if you purchase more than 1 agent at a time). They also provide a free plan for open source, non commercial projects, and steep 50% discounts for startups. |
Yes Google offers a generous 120 build-minutes per day plan, not including time spent waiting in the queue. |
| Predictable pricing |
Yes They have a clear list of prices per number of agents. |
Yes (partial) While it's clear what the cost is (priced per build-minute), figuring out costs can be a hassle, especially as the price can vary quite a bit depending on commits to the project. |
| Support / SLA |
Yes
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Yes Even available as a paid add-on, for 24/7 phone support for example: https://cloud.google.com/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 |
Yes
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Yes
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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 No specific mention that we could find, but judging by the wording used it would appear that tasks can be divided accross different machines. |
N/A
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| Containers support / Build environment |
Yes First class Docker support, among others |
Yes Native Docker and Packer support |
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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 Great system overview, even allows building your own dashboards in order to see everything you're interested in at a glance. |
Yes
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Management support
How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on |
Yes Allows assigning roles, LDAP and Windows domain integrations and more. |
Yes
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| Self-hosted option |
Yes
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No (partial) While there's no self hosted variant, they provide a local Cloud Build image which allows you to build locally, very valuable for debugging. |
| 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 Unlike most options in the CI/CD space, TeamCity allows defining pipelines using a Kotlin-based DSL. This unlocks a lot of potential, such as templates for common CI/CD tasks, and deep integration with various IDEs (not just JetBrains IDEs) |
Yes Configurable via YML and/or JSON 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 Something that stands out from the rest, allows integrating third party reports, as long as they produce HTML output. |
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? |
Yes JetBrains has a rich ecosystem of plugins in general. |
Yes There are predefined images built for Cloud Build, which can be integrated right away in your build process. Some of them are first party: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-builders and others are community contributed: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-builders-community |
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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 Using what they call 'Technology Awareness', promises great intehration with Ruby projects, with features such as testing framework support, static analysis and code coverage available out of the box, with no additional work required: https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/features/technology_awareness.html |
N/A Nothing specific as far as we can tell |
| Specific language support: JavaScript |
No (partial) Unlike Ruby, there's no first class support for Javascript, although they do advertise the fact that their large collections of plugins can cover any use case for Javascript projects: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/teamcity |
Yes (partial) npm, yarn and jasmine-node support via predefined Cloud Build steps. |
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Integrations
1st party support for common tools (like Slack notifications, various VCS platforms, etc) |
Yes Great cloud integrations (Google Cloud, AWS, VMWare, etc) as well as 'key' integrations (VSCode, Jira, even NuGet) |
Yes Various integrations available via custom Build Steps, as well as natively (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) |
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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 Unlike most tools, which offer just a Rest API, TeamCity provides ample opportunity for extension via plugins, their own API, and service messages (formatted messages on stdout) |
Yes REST API and comprehensive CLI tool, as well as a pub/sub system for build notifications. |
| Auditing |
Yes
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Yes
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| Additional notes |
Great ecosystem, with a strong focus on integration with other tools (not only JetBrains). |
Not unlike other Google tools, there's a strong emphasis on allowing developers to build on top of the service. Becomes more valuable if you're using other Google Cloud services as well. |