Buildbot vs Codeship: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Codeship? A Continuous Integration Platform in the cloud. Codeship runs your automated tests and configured deployment when you push to your repository. It takes care of managing and scaling the infrastructure so that you are able to test and release more frequently and get faster feedback for building the product your users need.
Buildbot and Codeship can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Buildbot are:
- run builds on a variety of slave platforms
- arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
- minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted
On the other hand, Codeship provides the following key features:
- Run you automated tests | Easily set up Codeship with Github or Bitbucket and trigger your automated tests with a simple push to your repository.
- 100 builds & 5 private projects free per month.
- Free for OSS.
"Highly configurable builds" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Buildbot, while over 214 developers mention "Simple deployments" as the leading cause for choosing Codeship.
Buildbot is an open source tool with 4K GitHub stars and 1.37K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Codeship has a broader approval, being mentioned in 277 company stacks & 82 developers stacks; compared to Buildbot, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
