Drone.io
Chris Saylor
Aug 3, 2015
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CommentsWhat is 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.
Drone.io is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Free for open-sourceGitHub, BitBucket integrationBrowser testingDeplot with Amazon, Heroku, Google AppEngineFlexible scriptingTeam billing
Drone.io Pros & Cons
Pros of Drone.io
- ✓Open source
- ✓Built on docker
- ✓Free for open source
- ✓GitHub integration
- ✓Easy Setup
- ✓Flexible scripting
- ✓Hosted internally
- ✓Bitbucket integration
- ✓GitLab integration
- ✓Works with Heroku
Cons of Drone.io
- ✗Very basic documentation
Drone.io Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Drone.io?
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.
GitHub Actions
It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
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.
