Semaphore vs Jenkins X

Overview

Semaphore

Stacks190

Followers187

Votes83

Jenkins X

Stacks147

Followers370

Votes16

GitHub Stars4.7K

Forks800

Jenkins X vs Semaphore: What are the differences?

Jenkins X: A CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes. Jenkins X is a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes; 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.

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

Some of the features offered by Jenkins X are:

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

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

"Kubernetes integration" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Jenkins X, while over 19 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Semaphore.

Jenkins X is an open source tool with 2.8K GitHub stars and 498 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jenkins X's open source repository on GitHub.

GrowthHackers, CrowdFlower, and Lost My Name are some of the popular companies that use Semaphore, whereas Jenkins X is used by letgo, Zetaops, and Proente. Semaphore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Jenkins X, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Advice on Semaphore, Jenkins X

Stratos

Jan 13, 2020

Needs advice

We are a mid-size startup running Scala apps. Moving from Jenkins/EC2 to Spinnaker/EKS and looking for a tool to cover our CI/CD needs. Our code lives on GitHub, artifacts in nexus, images in ECR.

Drone is out, GitHub actions are being considered along with Circle CI and GitLab CI.

We primarily need:

Fast SBT builds (caching)
Low maintenance overhead (ideally serverless)
Everything as code

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Detailed Comparison

Semaphore	Jenkins X
Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.	Jenkins X is a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes
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;	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; Feedback on Issues and Pull Requests - Jenkins X automatically comments on your Commits, Issues and Pull Requests with feedback as code is ready to be previewed, is promoted to environments or if Pull Requests are generated automatically to upgrade versions
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 4.7K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 800
Stacks 190	Stacks 147
Followers 187	Followers 370
Votes 83	Votes 16
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 7 Kubernetes integration 5 Scripted Pipelines 4 GitOps Cons 1 Complexity
Integrations
GitHub Slack Heroku Docker Kubernetes	Kubernetes macOS Linux Mint Ubuntu Debian Fedora

What are some alternatives to Semaphore, Jenkins X?

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.

Buildkite

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.