Apache Ant vs. Azure Pipelines

Apache Ant

Apache Ant

6 Reviews and Ratings

Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines

17 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apache Ant	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications.	N/A
Azure Pipelines	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	Users can automate builds and deployments with Azure Pipelines. Build, test, and deploy Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++, .NET, Android, and iOS apps. Run in parallel on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Azure Pipelines can be purchased standalone, but it is also part of Azure DevOps Services agile development planning and CI/CD suite.	N/A

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Apache Ant	Azure Pipelines
Free Trial
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Community Pulse
	Apache Ant	Azure Pipelines
Top Pros	Pro Application development Pro Platform independent Pro Open source	Pro Continuous integration Pro Continuous delivery Pro Integration with azure
Top Cons	Minus Java based Minus Error handling Minus Lifecycle management	Minus Non microsoft Minus Code quality Minus Documentation needs

Best Alternatives
	Apache Ant	Azure Pipelines
Small Businesses	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Apache Ant	Azure Pipelines
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apache Ant	Azure Pipelines
Likelihood to Recommend	Apache Apache Ant is suitable for the scenarios where central repository is not required for your developed application and It has a great architecture with less complexity and the situation where automated configuration is needed then Apache Ant is not suitable for that use case. Apache Ant is easy to use tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft It is good tool if you are doing continuous improvements in your code and you wish it goes live whenever you push code to GitHub. So integrating Azure Pipeline, it automatically does CI/CD in the background once you push code/merge code and it is live in few minutes. It also does some automated tests if you have wrote scripts Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Apache Support non java application development as well Flexible XML scripting Support any platform Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Integration with SonarQube Integration with Azure DevOps Integration with GitHub Incentivized Matthew Budram Software Architect Read full review
Cons	Apache Better lifecycle management can be done So much configuration details needs to provide Order of the flow needs to define in advance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft The errors which we got sometimes are not clearly enough. There are some let's say hidden options, they could be more visible When the process is running we have to remember about manually refreshing to see the current status because it doesn't work automatically Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Apache Compare to other tools like Eclipse or Jenkins, Apache Ant is really easy to use tool. and It is very flexible tool which can be learn in couple of days time. And Apache ant help to write the custom java based hooks which enable more capabilities and features in the application Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft We have used the GitHub CI/CD. Earlier we were using the Azure Pipelines but after GitHub had their actions, we integrated that for CI/CD. It runs the tests and makes a production build which can be live. GitHub CI/CD is more useful because we have to make script only once then just by few changes we can deploy it onto Azure, AWS, Google anywhere so we found it more convenient Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Apache Overall positive impact Speed up the development process Easy deployment process Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft we have had outages from Azure in the past Incentivized Matthew Budram Software Architect Read full review
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