Semaphore vs Buildkite

Overview

Semaphore

Stacks190

Followers187

Votes83

Buildkite

Stacks210

Followers231

Votes115

Buildkite vs Semaphore: What are the differences?

What is Buildkite? Fast, secure and scalable CI/CD for all your software projects. CI and build automation tool that combines the power of your own build infrastructure with the convenience of a managed, centralized web UI. Used by Shopify, Basecamp, Digital Ocean, Venmo, Cochlear, Bugsnag and more.

What is Semaphore? The continuous integration and delivery platform powering the world’s best engineering teams. Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.

Buildkite and Semaphore can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.

Some of the features offered by Buildkite are:

Fast and stable builds
Open source agent runs on almost any machine and architecture
Freedom to use your own internal or pre-release tools and services

On the other hand, Semaphore provides the following key features:

Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools
Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches

"Great customer support" is the primary reason why developers consider Buildkite over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Semaphore.

According to the StackShare community, Semaphore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Buildkite, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Semaphore	Buildkite
Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.	CI and build automation tool that combines the power of your own build infrastructure with the convenience of a managed, centralized web UI. Used by Shopify, Basecamp, Digital Ocean, Venmo, Cochlear, Bugsnag and more.
Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools;Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines;Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches;Secrets and Dependency Management;Powerful Command Line Interface;Autoscale and Pay Only What you Use;Project Timeline Shows All Development Activities at a Glance;Dashboard Shows You All Projects That You Participate in;Seamless GitHub Integration - One Click To Add a Project;Automatically Test Your App After Every Change;New Branches are Added & Removed Automatically;Know If a Pull Request Is Good To Merge;Review Every Version in Branch History;Easily Run Your Tests in Parallel Threads;Projects are Autoconfigured for Testing;	Fast and stable builds; Open source agent runs on almost any machine and architecture; Freedom to use your own internal or pre-release tools and services; Powerful distributed build tools; Key/value targeting of agents; Dynamic job allocation allows adding and removing build machines; Shared key/value and binary artifact stores for easily distributing build jobs regardless of machine or network; Integration with pull requests, deployments and releases; GitHub, Github Enterprise, Bitbucket, Gitlab or your own SCM; Slack, Hipchat, Webhooks, and LIFX notifications; Extensible per-project with agent hooks, webhooks and the rest API; GitHub Enterprise is supported standard; SSO
Statistics
Stacks 190	Stacks 210
Followers 187	Followers 231
Votes 83	Votes 115
Pros & Cons
Pros 20 Easy setup 15 Fast builds 14 Free for private github repos 8 Great customer support 6 Free for open source	Pros 18 Great customer support 17 Github integration 16 Easy to use 16 Easy setup 12 Simplicity
Integrations
GitHub Slack Heroku Docker Kubernetes	Slack GitHub Docker GitLab Heroku HipChat Bitbucket Git GitHub Enterprise TestFlight

What are some alternatives to Semaphore, Buildkite?

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

Codeship

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.

CircleCI

Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.

TeamCity

TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.

Drone.io

Drone is a hosted continuous integration service. It enables you to conveniently set up projects to automatically build, test, and deploy as you make changes to your code. Drone integrates seamlessly with Github, Bitbucket and Google Code as well as third party services such as Heroku, Dotcloud, Google AppEngine and more.

wercker

Wercker is a CI/CD developer automation platform designed for Microservices & Container Architecture.

GoCD

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers business a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility.

Shippable

Shippable is a SaaS platform that lets you easily add Continuous Integration/Deployment to your Github and BitBucket repositories. It is lightweight, super simple to setup, and runs your builds and tests faster than any other service.

Snap CI

Snap CI is a cloud-based continuous integration & continuous deployment tool with powerful deployment pipelines. Integrates seamlessly with GitHub and provides fast feedback so you can deploy with ease.