Bitbucket vs. Spinnaker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bitbucket
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Bitbucket from Australian-headquartered Atlassian offers source code management and version control.
$0
per month
Spinnaker
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery platform with a range of cluster management and deployment management features, originally developed at Netflix.N/A
Pricing
BitbucketSpinnaker
Editions & Modules
Free (up to 5 users)
$0
per month
Standard
$3
per user/per month
Premium
$6
per user/per month
Data Center
1,980
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BitbucketSpinnaker
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
BitbucketSpinnaker
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(63 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BitbucketSpinnaker
Likelihood to Recommend
Atlassian
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.
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Netflix
Spinnaker suits well for applications which are stateless and can adapt to an immutable architecture of deployment. But for applications which are stateful and cannot afford to spin up new servers for every deployment doesn't go well with Spinnaker. It can handle only deployments which are VM based and cannot support deployments to serverless architecture like AWS Lambda etc.
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Pros
Atlassian
  • 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.
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Netflix
  • Fast deployments.
  • Can be integrated with a good variety of other products.
  • Also provides some insights from your environment.
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Cons
Atlassian
  • 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.
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Netflix
  • It does NOT support CFN based deployments
  • Windows based systems finds it difficult to onboard to Spinnaker.
  • Pipeline level access authorisation is not there.
  • Support for EBS volume encryption is probably missing.
  • Attach/detach EBS volumes during deployments is difficult.
  • No support to deploy the artifacts without re-creating the servers. Only pure immutable deployment are allowed.
  • Open-source - so good and bad!
  • Spinnaker on its own has 10 underlying micro services. Managing Spinnaker needs a focussed platform approach.
  • User authentication is easy but authorisation management is not straight forward.
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Likelihood to Renew
Atlassian
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.
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Netflix
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Usability
Atlassian
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.
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Netflix
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Support Rating
Atlassian
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.
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Netflix
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Alternatives Considered
Atlassian
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.
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Netflix
• Pipeline Expressiveness • Self-Service/Override • Visibility of Client Teams • Operability of Client Teams - • High-Quality Integrations (AWS, IHP, Google) • Extensibility – (Ability to add code) • The maturity of Deployment Process • Speed/Ease of Onboarding
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Return on Investment
Atlassian
  • 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
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Netflix
  • By using Spinnaker we are able to deploy new versions of our product quickly.
  • A deployment takes in average 2 minutes.
  • Our investment on Spinnaker was just time learning it.
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