AWS CodePipeline vs Capistrano

AWS CodePipeline vs Capistrano: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Capistrano? A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby. Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows.

AWS CodePipeline belongs to "Continuous Deployment" category of the tech stack, while Capistrano can be primarily classified under "Server Configuration and Automation".

Some of the features offered by AWS CodePipeline are:

• Workflow Modeling
• AWS Integrations
• Pre-Built Plugins

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

• Reliably deploy web application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set
• Automate audits of any number of machines (checking login logs, enumerating uptimes, and/or applying security patches)
• Script arbitrary workflows over SSH

"Simple to set up" is the primary reason why developers consider AWS CodePipeline over the competitors, whereas "Automated deployment with several custom recipes" was stated as the key factor in picking Capistrano.

Capistrano is an open source tool with 11.1K GitHub stars and 1.72K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Capistrano's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Capistrano has a broader approval, being mentioned in 295 company stacks & 81 developers stacks; compared to AWS CodePipeline, which is listed in 30 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.