AutoRABIT vs. Azure Pipelines

AutoRABIT is well suited- 1. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 2.AutoRABIT provides a centralized platform to orchestrate and automate release activities, ensuring consistency and compliance across environments.AutoRABIT is a comprehensive DevOps platform with associated costs. Less appropriate. Organizations with limited budget or resources may find it more cost-effective to use alternative tools or manual processes for Salesforce development and release management.

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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

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• CI Jobs
• Profile Commits
• Deployments from specific commits

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• Integration with SonarQube
• Integration with Azure DevOps
• Integration with GitHub

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• user interface can be overwhelming and complex for new users
• AutoRABIT offers integration with various Salesforce tools and platforms, some users may find the integration options limited or lacking flexibility.
• Depending on the size and complexity of Salesforce orgs, some users may experience performance issues with certain AutoRABIT functionalities, such as deployments or data migrations.

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• 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

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I think there are no major differences other than cost

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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

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• AutoRABIT can significantly streamline Salesforce development and release management processes, reducing manual effort and time spent on repetitive tasks.
• By automating testing, code quality checks, and deployment processes, AutoRABIT helps ensure consistency and reliability in Salesforce deployments.
• While there is an initial investment associated with implementing and licensing AutoRABIT, the long-term cost savings from reduced manual effort, decreased deployment errors, and improved productivity can result in a positive ROI over time.

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• we have had outages from Azure in the past

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