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  5. AWS CodePipeline vs Bazel

AWS CodePipeline vs Bazel

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Overview

Bazel
Bazel
Stacks314
Followers579
Votes133
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline
Stacks551
Followers933
Votes30

AWS CodePipeline vs Bazel: What are the differences?

AWS CodePipeline: Continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates. CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define; Bazel: Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone. Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.

AWS CodePipeline and Bazel are primarily classified as "Continuous Deployment" and "Java Build" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by AWS CodePipeline are:

  • Workflow Modeling
  • AWS Integrations
  • Pre-Built Plugins

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

  • Multi-language support: Bazel supports Java, Objective-C and C++ out of the box, and can be extended to support arbitrary programming languages.
  • High-level build language: Projects are described in the BUILD language, a concise text format that describes a project as sets of small interconnected libraries, binaries and tests. By contrast, with tools like Make you have to describe individual files and compiler invocations.
  • Multi-platform support: The same tool and the same BUILD files can be used to build software for different architectures, and even different platforms. At Google, we use Bazel to build both server applications running on systems in our data centers and client apps running on mobile phones.

"Simple to set up" is the top reason why over 3 developers like AWS CodePipeline, while over 18 developers mention "Fast" as the leading cause for choosing Bazel.

Bazel is an open source tool with 12.4K GitHub stars and 2.03K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Bazel's open source repository on GitHub.

Volta Industries, ChromaDex, and PouchNATION are some of the popular companies that use AWS CodePipeline, whereas Bazel is used by Google, Asana, and Square. AWS CodePipeline has a broader approval, being mentioned in 29 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to Bazel, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Bazel
Bazel
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline

Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.

CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.

Multi-language support: Bazel supports Java, Objective-C and C++ out of the box, and can be extended to support arbitrary programming languages;High-level build language: Projects are described in the BUILD language, a concise text format that describes a project as sets of small interconnected libraries, binaries and tests. By contrast, with tools like Make you have to describe individual files and compiler invocations;Multi-platform support: The same tool and the same BUILD files can be used to build software for different architectures, and even different platforms. At Google, we use Bazel to build both server applications running on systems in our data centers and client apps running on mobile phones;Reproducibility: In BUILD files, each library, test, and binary must specify its direct dependencies completely. Bazel uses this dependency information to know what must be rebuilt when you make changes to a source file, and which tasks can run in parallel. This means that all builds are incremental and will always produce the same result;Scalable: Bazel can handle large builds
Workflow Modeling;AWS Integrations;Pre-Built Plugins;Custom Plugins;Declarative Templates;Access Control
Statistics
Stacks
314
Stacks
551
Followers
579
Followers
933
Votes
133
Votes
30
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 28
    Fast
  • 20
    Deterministic incremental builds
  • 17
    Correct
  • 16
    Multi-language
  • 14
    Enforces declared inputs/outputs
Cons
  • 3
    No Windows Support
  • 2
    Bad IntelliJ support
  • 1
    Learning Curve
  • 1
    Lack of Documentation
  • 1
    Constant breaking changes
Pros
  • 13
    Simple to set up
  • 8
    Managed service
  • 4
    GitHub integration
  • 3
    Parallel Execution
  • 2
    Automatic deployment
Cons
  • 2
    No project boards
  • 1
    No integration with "Power" 365 tools
Integrations
Java
Java
Objective-C
Objective-C
C++
C++
Runscope
Runscope
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitHub
Jenkins
Jenkins
CloudBees
CloudBees
BlazeMeter
BlazeMeter
Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2

What are some alternatives to Bazel, AWS CodePipeline?

Buddy

Buddy

Git platform for web and software developers with Docker-based tools for Continuous Integration and Deployment.

Apache Maven

Apache Maven

Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.

Gradle

Gradle

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.

Cloud 66

Cloud 66

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more.

DeployBot

DeployBot

DeployBot makes it simple to deploy your work anywhere. You can compile or process your code in a Docker container on our infrastructure, and we'll copy it to your servers once everything has been successfully built.

Pants

Pants

Pants is a build system for Java, Scala and Python. It works particularly well for a source code repository that contains many distinct projects.

Deployer

Deployer

A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box

Spinnaker

Spinnaker

Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers.

JitPack

JitPack

JitPack is an easy to use package repository for Gradle/Sbt and Maven projects. We build GitHub projects on demand and provides ready-to-use packages.

SBT

SBT

It is similar to Java's Maven and Ant. Its main features are: Native support for compiling Scala code and integrating with many Scala test frameworks.

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