Bitbucket Pipelines vs Buildbot: What are the differences?
Bitbucket Pipelines: An Integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment for Bitbucket. It is an Integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment for Bitbucket Cloud that's trivial to set up, automating your code from test to production. Our mission is to enable all teams to ship software faster by driving the practice of continuous delivery; Buildbot: Python-based continuous integration testing framework. BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure.
Bitbucket Pipelines and Buildbot can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Bitbucket Pipelines are:
- Continuous integration and delivery
- Map the branch structure
- Run as service
On the other hand, Buildbot provides the following key features:
- run builds on a variety of slave platforms
- arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
- minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted
Buildbot is an open source tool with 4K GitHub stars and 1.37K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.
SmArtapps, Simian, and ADEXT are some of the popular companies that use Bitbucket Pipelines, whereas Buildbot is used by Mozilla, Animoto, and Fetch Robotics. Bitbucket Pipelines has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Buildbot, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
