Buildbot vs. CloudBees Codeship

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Buildbot
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Buildbot is an open source build automation tool and continuous integration framework.N/A
CloudBees Codeship
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Codeship from CloudBees is a build automation platform from the Austrian company of the same name.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Open Source
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CloudBees
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
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CloudBees
  • 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
Open Source
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CloudBees
  • 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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CloudBees
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
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CloudBees
  • 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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ScreenShots

CloudBees Codeship Screenshots

Screenshot of Get an overview of all your builds, identify failed builds easily and take action right from the dashboard.Screenshot of Information for a single build, inspect log files for each step and notice at a glance which pipeline and step are failing.Screenshot of Simply enter your setup and test commands, or choose from templates available for a wide range of stacks.Screenshot of Deploy to various web services without having to worry about the process. Simply choose your deployment target, which branch you want to deploy and off you go.Screenshot of We take care of all the complicated parts of the deployment. You simply fill in the blanks and you're all set.Screenshot of Get notifications for your builds on a multitude of services. You can also ping your own services to implement custom logic.