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Azure Pipelines vs Buildkite: What are the differences?
What is Azure Pipelines? Continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and cloud. Fast builds with parallel jobs and test execution. Use container jobs to create consistent and reliable builds with the exact tools you need. Create new containers with ease and push them to any registry.
What is Buildkite? Fast, secure and scalable CI/CD for all your software projects. 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.
Azure Pipelines and Buildkite can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Azure Pipelines are:
- Any language, any platform
- Containers and Kubernetes
- Extensible
On the other hand, Buildkite provides the following key features:
- Fast and stable builds
- Open source agent runs on almost any machine and architecture
- Freedom to use your own internal or pre-release tools and services
According to the StackShare community, Buildkite has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 8 developers stacks; compared to Azure Pipelines, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
We are currently using Azure Pipelines for continous integration. Our applications are developed witn .NET framework. But when we look at the online Jenkins is the most widely used tool for continous integration. Can you please give me the advice which one is best to use for my case Azure pipeline or jenkins.
If your source code is on GitHub, also take a look at Github actions. https://github.com/features/actions
Pros of Azure Pipelines
- Easy to get started4
- Unlimited CI/CD minutes3
- Built by Microsoft3
- Yaml support2
- Docker support2
Pros of Buildkite
- Great customer support18
- Github integration17
- Easy to use16
- Easy setup16
- Simplicity12
- Simple deployments10
- Simple and powerful configuration9
- Bitbucket integration4
- Github enterprise integration3
- Amazing swag3
- Integrates with everything2
- Sourcecode is hosted by source code owner.1
- Configuration in cloud1
- Run your own test containers with their AWS stack file1
- Superior user experience1
- Great ui1