Bitrise vs Laravel Homestead: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bitrise as "Automate your mobile app development from building through testing to deployment". It is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step. On the other hand, Laravel Homestead is detailed as "The official Laravel local development environment (Vagrant box)". Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 5.6, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.

Bitrise can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Continuous Integration" category, while Laravel Homestead is grouped under "Virtual Machine".

Some of the features offered by Bitrise are:

• Continuous Delivery
• Hosted Environment
• Customizable Workflows

On the other hand, Laravel Homestead provides the following key features:

• Ubuntu 14.04
• PHP 5.6
• HHVM

"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider Bitrise over the competitors, whereas "Easy to setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Laravel Homestead.

Laravel Homestead is an open source tool with 3.67K GitHub stars and 1.46K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Laravel Homestead's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Laravel Homestead has a broader approval, being mentioned in 31 company stacks & 229 developers stacks; compared to Bitrise, which is listed in 99 company stacks and 160 developer stacks.