BuildMaster vs Jenkins X: What are the differences?
What is BuildMaster? An application release automation tool. It is a fully-functional Continuous Integration tool for a variety of platforms allowing your organization to start using CI/CD today, even with legacy applications. It runs automated testing for your applications and notify key team members if those tests fail.
What is Jenkins X? A CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes. Jenkins X is a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes.
BuildMaster and Jenkins X can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by BuildMaster are:
- Static Analysis & Reporting
- Automated UI Tests
On the other hand, Jenkins X provides the following key features:
- Automated CI and CD - Rather than having to have deep knowledge of the internals of Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins X will default awesome pipelines for your projects that implements fully CI and CD
- Environment Promotion via GitOps - Each team gets a set of Environments. Jenkins X then automates the management of the Environments and the Promotion of new versions of Applications between Environments via GitOps
- Pull Request Preview Environments - Jenkins X automatically spins up Preview Environments for your Pull Requests so you can get fast feedback before changes are merged to master
Jenkins X is an open source tool with 2.93K GitHub stars and 518 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jenkins X's open source repository on GitHub.