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Appveyor vs Buildbot: What are the differences?

What is Appveyor? Continuous Integration and Deployment service for busy Windows developers. AppVeyor aims to give powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment tools to every .NET developer without the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own build server.

What is Buildbot? Python-based continuous integration testing framework. BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure.

Appveyor and Buildbot belong to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Appveyor are:

  • Scriptless, repetitive, one-click deployment of build artifacts to multiple environments
  • YAML configuration
  • Backed by Windows Azure platform

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

  • run builds on a variety of slave platforms
  • arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
  • minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted

"Github integration" is the primary reason why developers consider Appveyor over the competitors, whereas "Highly configurable builds" was stated as the key factor in picking Buildbot.

Buildbot is an open source tool with 4K GitHub stars and 1.37K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.

Trustpilot, Snipcart, and Exceptionless are some of the popular companies that use Appveyor, whereas Buildbot is used by Mozilla, Animoto, and Fetch Robotics. Appveyor has a broader approval, being mentioned in 19 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to Buildbot, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of Appveyor
Pros of Buildbot
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    Github integration
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    Simple, reliable & powerful
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    Hosted
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    YML-based configuration
  • 10
    Nuget support
  • 6
    Windows support
  • 4
    Free for open source
  • 4
    Automatic deployment
  • 3
    Great product, responsive people, free for open-source
  • 2
    Easy PowerShell support
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    Easy handling of secret keys
  • 1
    Remote Desktop into Build Worker
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    Advanced build workers available
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    Highly configurable builds
  • 5
    Hosted internally
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    Beautiful waterfall
  • 4
    Free open source
  • 3
    Python
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    No external web fonts by default

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Cons of Appveyor
Cons of Buildbot
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    Complex user interface
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    Poor documentation
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    What is Appveyor?

    AppVeyor aims to give powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment tools to every .NET developer without the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own build server.

    What is Buildbot?

    BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure.

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    What are some alternatives to Appveyor and Buildbot?
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Azure DevOps
    Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support.
    GitLab
    GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
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