Travis CI vs Drone comparison of Continuous Integration servers

	Travis CI https://travis-ci.org	Drone https://drone.io
Unique feature	Build Matrix, ease of use, GitHub integration	Customization
Type of product	SaaS, Self-hosted / On Premise	SaaS / On Premise
Offers a free plan	Yes Free for open source projects	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 Clearly defined monthly plans, depending on concurrent jobs needed.	Yes Predictable pricing based on number of users and repositories. They have a calculator to help determine cost.
Support / SLA	Yes Available via email, or dedicated online interface for paid plans.	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 TravisCI makes it very easy to split your build into different stages which are then run in parallel (ie: run integration tests separate from the unit tests). TravisCI calls this a build matrix: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/build-matrix/. You can also very easily split tests accross several VMs using the knapsack_pro gem.	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	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 TravisCI runs each build in a isolated virtual machine. Pre-build packages include a few which support specific languages (Ruby and JavaScript included) or other software (Git, various databases), but vanilla packages such as Ubuntu Trusty are also available.	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 Available by default in Travis (this is what most of the web UI consists of)	Yes
Management support How easy is it to manage users / projects / assign roles and permissions and so on	N/A	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	Yes
Hosted plans / SaaS	Yes	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.	No Specifically built around GitHub pull requests. Pipelines can be defined, but parts of the process need to be implemented separatelly in GitHub.	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 (partial) No persistent storage eliminates the possibility of code coverage reports on TravisCI alone. There is support for integrated 3rd parties such as Coveralls for reporting code coverage.	N/A
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?	No plugin support in TravisCI, plugins for other tools	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 TravisCI is designed to be a simple way to integrate CI/CD in your workflow so it has a couple of features aimed at specific languages, such as Ruby, starting from pre-built containers (with RVM already installed, for example) all the way to automatically running specific platform commands (such as detecting a Gemfile in the root of the project and automatically bundling dependencies). TravisCI also builds a Ruby SDK for easier use of the API.	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 TravisCI is designed to be a simple way to integrate CI/CD in your workflow so it has a couple of features aimed at specific languages, such as Javascript, starting from pre-built containers (with node already installed, for example) all the way to automatically running specific platform commands (such as detecting a package.json in the root of the project and running npm test)	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 By default, TravisCI is built to work with GitHub. Additionally, there is strong support for 3rd party tools like Coveralls, BrowserStack, etc.	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 Offers a feature-rich API that allows both reading data, as well as triggering or cancelling builds.	Yes Drone provides a feature-rich REST API, as well as an official Go SDK for it.
Auditing	N/A	Yes
Additional notes		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!

Programming Language	Supported test runners	Installation guide	Knapsack Pro Library README / Source
Ruby	RSpec, Cucumber, Minitest, test-unit, Spinach, Turnip	Install	knapsack_pro gem
JavaScript	Cypress.io	Install	@knapsack-pro/cypress
JavaScript	Jest	Install	@knapsack-pro/jest
JavaScript / TypeScript	Any test runner in JavaScript	How to build native integration with Knapsack Pro API to run tests in parallel for any test runner	@knapsack-pro/core
Any programming language	Any test runner	How to build a custom Knapsack Pro API client from scratch in any programming language	-

Travis CI vs Drone comparison of Continuous Integration servers What are the differences between Travis CI and Drone?

Travis CI

Drone

Build Matrix, ease of use, GitHub integration

Customization

SaaS, Self-hosted / On Premise

SaaS / On Premise

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Yes (partial)

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No plugin support in TravisCI, plugins for other tools

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No (partial)

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No (partial)

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Yes

N/A

Yes

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Travis CI vs Drone comparison of Continuous Integration servers
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How to run parallel tests on Travis CI and Drone
to execute 1-hour test suite in 2 minutes?

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on Travis CI and Drone?