Beanstalk vs Semaphore

Overview

Beanstalk

Stacks85

Followers270

Votes51

Semaphore

Stacks190

Followers187

Votes83

Beanstalk vs Semaphore: What are the differences?

Beanstalk: Private code hosting for teams. A single process to commit code, review with the team, and deploy the final result to your customers; Semaphore: The continuous integration and delivery platform powering the world’s best engineering teams. Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.

Beanstalk belongs to "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category of the tech stack, while Semaphore can be primarily classified under "Continuous Integration".

Some of the features offered by Beanstalk are:

Setup and manage repositories- Import or create Subversion and Git repositories that are instantly available to your team.
Invite team members, partners & clients- Restrict access to certain repos and provide read-only or full read/write permissions.
Browse files and changes- Every version of every file you’ve committed to Beanstalk is just a click away. See a timeline of who made changes and view the differences between revisions. Syntax highlighting for over 70 languages.

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

Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools
Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches

"Ftp deploy" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Beanstalk, while over 19 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Semaphore.

According to the StackShare community, Semaphore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Beanstalk, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Beanstalk	Semaphore
A single process to commit code, review with the team, and deploy the final result to your customers.	Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.
Setup and manage repositories- Import or create Subversion and Git repositories that are instantly available to your team.;Invite team members, partners & clients- Restrict access to certain repos and provide read-only or full read/write permissions.;Browse files and changes- Every version of every file you’ve committed to Beanstalk is just a click away. See a timeline of who made changes and view the differences between revisions. Syntax highlighting for over 70 languages.;Preview, Compare & Share- Instantly preview HTML and image files in Beanstalk, compare versions side by side, and share them with your team, colleagues or clients, even if they don’t have a Beanstalk account.;Code Editing- Make and commit changes directly in the web interface of Beanstalk.;Blame Tool- View the line-by-line history of every file using Beanstalk's blame tool. Quickly see who was responsible for each line of code and which revision it belonged to.;Instantly deploy static assets from Beanstalk to your development, staging and production servers via Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Heroku, DreamObjects;	Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools;Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines;Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches;Secrets and Dependency Management;Powerful Command Line Interface;Autoscale and Pay Only What you Use;Project Timeline Shows All Development Activities at a Glance;Dashboard Shows You All Projects That You Participate in;Seamless GitHub Integration - One Click To Add a Project;Automatically Test Your App After Every Change;New Branches are Added & Removed Automatically;Know If a Pull Request Is Good To Merge;Review Every Version in Branch History;Easily Run Your Tests in Parallel Threads;Projects are Autoconfigured for Testing;
Statistics
Stacks 85	Stacks 190
Followers 270	Followers 187
Votes 51	Votes 83
Pros & Cons
Pros 14 Ftp deploy 9 Deployment 8 Easy to navigate 4 HipChat Integration 4 Code Editing	Pros 20 Easy setup 15 Fast builds 14 Free for private github repos 8 Great customer support 6 Free for open source
Integrations
Amazon S3 Amazon CloudFront Basecamp Campfire FogBugz Lighthouse Harvest Zendesk HipChat Bugify	GitHub Slack Heroku Docker Kubernetes

What are some alternatives to Beanstalk, Semaphore?

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

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.

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.

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

Codeship

Codeship runs your automated tests and configured deployment when you push to your repository. It takes care of managing and scaling the infrastructure so that you are able to test and release more frequently and get faster feedback for building the product your users need.

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.

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.

Drone.io

Drone is a hosted continuous integration service. It enables you to conveniently set up projects to automatically build, test, and deploy as you make changes to your code. Drone integrates seamlessly with Github, Bitbucket and Google Code as well as third party services such as Heroku, Dotcloud, Google AppEngine and more.

wercker

Wercker is a CI/CD developer automation platform designed for Microservices & Container Architecture.

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Some of the features offered by Beanstalk are:

Setup and manage repositories- Import or create Subversion and Git repositories that are instantly available to your team.
Invite team members, partners & clients- Restrict access to certain repos and provide read-only or full read/write permissions.
Browse files and changes- Every version of every file you’ve committed to Beanstalk is just a click away. See a timeline of who made changes and view the differences between revisions. Syntax highlighting for over 70 languages.

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

Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools
Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches

"Ftp deploy" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Beanstalk, while over 19 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Semaphore.

Beanstalk vs Semaphore