Knapsack Pro

Solano CI pros & cons features of Continuous Integration server
Why choose Solano CI? See product overview

Solano CI

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

N/A

Type of product

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Offers a free plan

No

Their website only mentions a free trial

Predictable pricing

No

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

Support / SLA

N/A

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.

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

Containers support / Build environment

Yes

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.

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

N/A

Self-hosted option

N/A

Hosted plans / SaaS

N/A

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.

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

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.

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

Specific language support: JavaScript

N/A

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

N/A

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

Auditing

N/A

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/

Run tests in parallel on Solano CI in the optimal way and avoid bottleneck parallel jobs.

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