Likelihood to Recommend I think AWS CodePipeline is a great tool for anyone wanted automated deployments in a multi-server/container AWS environment. AWS also offers services like Elastic Beanstalk that provide a more managed hosting & deployment experience. CodePipeline is a good middle ground with solid, built-in automation with enough customizability to not lock people into one deployment or architecture philosophy.
Read full review As a team we need to push code into the repo on daily basis, Bitbucket has proven that is a reliable and secure server to save and get the code available in no time. The administration part is really easy and there's an extra tool for every developer profile either if you want to use the console or a GUI like
Sourcetree .
Read full review Pros It is reliable and works without errors It integrates well with our repository and all other AWS functions as well as our end database Read full review Very easy to integrate with other DevOps tools like Jenkins and with project/workflow management tools like JIRA. Very efficient in managing security and compliance standards for code, especially during pull requests, merge requests, branching, etc. Very robust in performance, especially the cloud and datacenter versions hardly hit any performance issues and supports more than 2000+ developers in my company. Read full review Cons Ease of use - things like CircleCI or other tools are a bit easier to learn. Ability to build from more sources. Read full review The code management UI is a bit rough around the edges and difficult to work with. BitBucket does not have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors. It's not as easy to integrate 3rd party apps as other competitors. Read full review Likelihood to Renew All products have room for improvement. The system improves over time with better and better integrations and I look forward to even more features without paying extra! The system has increased transparency across my organization and with this transparency comes increased throughput on projects. I don't think I can go back to any other system and we are definitely married to this product.
Read full review Usability Overall, I give AWS Codepipeline a 9 because it gets the job done and I can't complain much about the web interface as much of the action is taking place behind the scenes on the terminal locally or via Amazon's infrastructure anyway. It would be nicer to have a better flowing and visualizable web interface, however.
Read full review The architecture of Bitbucket makes it more easily scalable than other source code management repositories. Also, administration and maintaining the instance is very easy. It integrates with
JIRA and other CI/CD applications which makes it more useful to reduce the efforts. It supports multiple plugins and those bring a lot of extra functionality. It increases the overall efficiency and usefulness of Bitbucket.
Read full review Performance Our pipeline takes about 30 minutes to run through. Although this time depends on the applications you are using on either end, I feel that it is a reasonable time to make upgrades and updates to our system as it is not an every day push.
Read full review Support Rating We didn't need a lot of support with AWS CodePipeline as it was pretty straightforward to configure and use, but where we ran into problems, the AWS community was able to help. AWS support agents were also helpful in resolving some of the minor issues we encountered, which we could not find a solution elsewhere.
Read full review The customer support provided by
Atlassian (Bitbucket's parent company that also makes
Jira ,
Confluence , etc.) is very helpful. They seem to be very concerned about any issues reported with their products and even just questions about functionality. They are constantly improving the products with new features in nearly every release. Plus they have a plethora of online documentation to reference.
Read full review Alternatives Considered CodeCommit and CodeDeploy can be used with CodePipeline so it’s not really fair to stack them against each other as they can be quite the compliment. The same goes for
Beanstalk , which is often used as a deployment target in relation to CodePipeline.
CodePipeline fulfills the CI/CD duty, where the other services do not focus on that specific function. They are supplements, not replacements. CodePipeline will detect the updated code and handle deploying it to the actual instance via
Beanstalk .
Jenkins is open source and not a native AWS service, that is its primary differentiator.
Jenkins can also be used as a supplement to CodePipeline.
Read full review For the features we were looking at, Bitbucket,
GitHub and
GitLab were all at par and were in a similar price range. We found that
GitHub was the most full featured should we need to scale very quickly.
GitLab was at par with
GitHub for our future needs, but
GitHub was a more familiar tool compared to
GitLab . Bitbucket won out because of its close integration with
Jira and being in the
Atlassian family. It was also cheaper than
GitHub . As we started with
Jira , Bitbucket addition became a natural next step for us. We really liked Bitbucket and stayed with it but we do know we have great options in the form of
GitHub and
GitLab should we need to scale fast.
Read full review Return on Investment CodePipeline has reduced ongoing devops costs for my clients, especially around deployment & testing. CodePipeline has sped up development workflow by making the deployment process automated off git pushes. Deployment takes very little coordination as the system will just trigger based on what is the latest commit in a branch. CodePipeline offered a lot of out-of-the-box functionality that was much simpler to setup than a dedicated CI server. It allowed the deployment process to built and put into production with much less and effort and cost compared to rolling the functionality manually. Read full review It's allowed for a lot of automation in terms of development workflows. It lets us pursue CI/CD approaches and get releases out faster It has let us get our infrastructure configuration into VCS, which further improves our automation abilities. It has aided in keeping track of changes, and allows us to keep workflows organized so we can track the status of development Read full review ScreenShots