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    AWS CodePipeline

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/AAWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps users automate release pipelines. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of the release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model a user defines.

    $1

    per active pipeline/per month

    Codeship (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACodeship was a hosted Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform designed to automate software building, testing, and deployment workflows. Acquired by enterprise software delivery provider CloudBees in February 2018, the cloud-based service integrated with source code repositories—including GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket—to execute automated test suites and deploy application updates to hosting environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and…N/A
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    AWS CodePipeline
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    Chose AWS CodePipeline
    We selected AWS CodePipeline mainly because we wanted to keep the application stack completely native to AWS, and CodePipeline provided the best integrations with AWS services that we were using, such as S3, Elastic Beanstalk, and Lamba. Furthermore, AWS CodePipeline provided …
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    Codeship is easier to use than Jenkins because it does not require you to set up your own server, and it provides a large amount of out-of-the-box integrations for version control systems and cloud environments. AWS CodePipeline is native to AWS and cannot deploy applications …
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    Small Businesses
    Codeship (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    CircleCI
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CircleCI
    Score8.9 out of 10
    AWS CodePipeline
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    CircleCI
    Score8.9 out of 10
    CircleCI
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    9.0
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    6.8
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    9.1
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    Ease of integration
    7.4
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Codeship is extremely well suited for projects that are version controlled on public hosting such as Github or Bitbucket, and for situations where you need to pick up code from these systems and deploy it to different cloud environments. For example, we had two projects for the same client that were hosted on Github and needed to be deployed to AWS and Heroku. The native CI/CD tools of these cloud environments could not provide a holistic solution to deploy to both environments the way Codeship did.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • It is reliable and works without errors
    • It integrates well with our repository and all other AWS functions as well as our end database
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    • Codeship provides a set of tools for quickly creating and building our deployment artifacts and push them to the designated servers.
    • Codeship's hooks allows our developers to simply push tags from our git repositories to initiate a deployment of code to a server. No one outside of the devops team needs any expertise to get our code packages delivered.
    • Codeship allows us to tie in behat and unit tests easily to prevent delivery of buggy code.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Ease of use - things like CircleCI or other tools are a bit easier to learn.
    • Ability to build from more sources.
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    • I would like to see a little bit more than the green/red status. If there are tests, it would be good to see how many have failed on a red build.
    • To improve build times (and reduce feedback times), it would be good to see how long build, tests, and deployment take over time. An overview like that could very easily point to potential areas of improvement. I think Codeship users do not want to bother with the build process, but, if there is anything to improve and increase productivity it's very unlikely that users wouldn't want to do this.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    Our company uses Jenkins for all internal deployment processes for one very important reason - it's hosted internally. But Codeship is great for personal use - it has intuitive UI, easy setup and tons of integrations.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
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    • Having the code tested thoroughly. While it's obviously a part of the job that still requires the developer to sit down and to actually have some decent and thorough tests implemented, by using codeship we were able to guarantee 100% that our code was being tested each and every time it got commited and pushed onto our repositories. Leading to a faster, shorter and sure implementation iterative cycle.
    • Fewer 'man in the middle' processes which required more steps and people involved just to get the code shipped onto our deployment servers.
    • Almost inexistent learning curve. Codeship is simple to use and very intuitive. Nobody in our development department had a hard time figuring out how to have it properly configured for each new project created there.
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