Jenkins X vs Strider: What are the differences?
Developers describe Jenkins X as "A CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes". Jenkins X is a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes. On the other hand, Strider is detailed as "*Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server *". Strider is an Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform. It is written in Node.JS / JavaScript and uses MongoDB as a backing store. It is published under the BSD license.
Jenkins X and Strider 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, Strider provides the following key features:
- add hooks to perform arbitrary actions during build.
- modify the database schema to add custom fields.
- register their own HTTP routes.
"Kubernetes integration" is the primary reason why developers consider Jenkins X over the competitors, whereas "Free Open Source" was stated as the key factor in picking Strider.
Jenkins X and Strider are both open source tools. It seems that Strider with 4.33K GitHub stars and 434 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Jenkins X with 2.8K GitHub stars and 498 GitHub forks.