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Bamboo vs Capistrano: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bamboo as "Tie automated builds, tests, and releases together in a single workflow". Focus on coding and count on Bamboo as your CI and build server! Create multi-stage build plans, set up triggers to start builds upon commits, and assign agents to your critical builds and deployments. On the other hand, Capistrano is detailed as "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.

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

"Integrates with other Atlassian tools" is the primary reason why developers consider Bamboo 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 Bamboo, which is listed in 61 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

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Pros of Bamboo
Pros of Capistrano
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    Integrates with other Atlassian tools
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    Great notification scheme
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    Great UI
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    Has Deployment Projects
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    Automated deployment with several custom recipes
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    Simple
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    Ruby
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    Release-folders with symlinks
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    Multistage deployment
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    Cryptic syntax
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    Integrated rollback
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    Supports aws

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    Expensive
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    Low community support
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    Bad UI
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    Bad integration with docker
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    What is Bamboo?

    Focus on coding and count on Bamboo as your CI and build server! Create multi-stage build plans, set up triggers to start builds upon commits, and assign agents to your critical builds and deployments.

    What is Capistrano?

    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.

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