Blue Ocean vs Buildbot: What are the differences?
Blue Ocean: A reboot of the Jenkins CI/CD User Experience. Designed from the ground up for Jenkins Pipeline and compatible with Freestyle jobs, Blue Ocean reduces clutter and increases clarity for every member of your team; Buildbot: Python-based continuous integration testing framework. BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure.
Blue Ocean and Buildbot can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Blue Ocean are:
- Sophisticated visualizations of CD pipelines, allowing for fast and intuitive comprehension of software pipeline status.
- Pipeline editor (In Development) that makes automating CD pipelines approachable by guiding the user through an intuitive and visual process to create a pipeline.
- Personalization of the Jenkins UI to suit the role-based needs of each member of the DevOps team.
On the other hand, Buildbot provides the following key features:
- run builds on a variety of slave platforms
- arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
- minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted
"Beautiful interface" is the primary reason why developers consider Blue Ocean over the competitors, whereas "Highly configurable builds" was stated as the key factor in picking Buildbot.
Blue Ocean and Buildbot are both open source tools. Buildbot with 4K GitHub stars and 1.37K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Blue Ocean with 2.49K GitHub stars and 435 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Blue Ocean has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to Buildbot, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
