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Blue Ocean vs wercker: What are the differences?
What is Blue Ocean? A reboot of the Jenkins CI/CD User Experience. Designed from the ground up for Jenkins Pipeline and compatible with Freestyle jobs, Blue Ocean reduces clutter and increases clarity for every member of your team.
What is wercker? Build, test, and deploy container-native applications. Wercker is a CI/CD developer automation platform designed for Microservices & Container Architecture.
Blue Ocean and wercker can be categorized as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Blue Ocean are:
- Sophisticated visualizations of CD pipelines, allowing for fast and intuitive comprehension of software pipeline status.
- Pipeline editor (In Development) that makes automating CD pipelines approachable by guiding the user through an intuitive and visual process to create a pipeline.
- Personalization of the Jenkins UI to suit the role-based needs of each member of the DevOps team.
On the other hand, wercker provides the following key features:
- Pipelines - Wercker's Pipelines enable developers to fully automate builds, tests and deployments with Docker as a first class citizen.
- Workflows - With Workflows: a collection of pipelines can be chained and triggered to achieve complex automation goals.
- Steps Store - A step is a self contained best practice for accomplishing a specific automation task. Build your own or help yourself to our community based store.
"Beautiful interface" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Blue Ocean, while over 34 developers mention "Automatic Deployments" as the leading cause for choosing wercker.
Blue Ocean is an open source tool with 2.49K GitHub stars and 435 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Blue Ocean's open source repository on GitHub.
FashionUnited, Hazeorid, and DataHero are some of the popular companies that use wercker, whereas Blue Ocean is used by CityLiv, Nexus National Security Network, and iCodeBetter. wercker has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 23 developers stacks; compared to Blue Ocean, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.
We migrated all our CI/CD pipelines to CircleCI back in 2017 and are particularly happy about it since!
Our top loved feature is unlimited parallelism. We can run as many builds concurrently as we want.
We also use orbs, pipeline parameters, reusable commands, build cache, test insights.
For some of the heavier repos, we use a larger resource class and mount RAMdisk to a file system to speed up builds.
Pros of Blue Ocean
- Beautiful interface7
Pros of wercker
- Automatic Deployments35
- Free33
- Easy config via yaml25
- Awesome UI23
- Github integration23
- Continuous Deployment22
- Supports both Github and Bitbucket16
- Easy to setup14
- Reliable12
- Bitbucket Integration11
- Community-driven components (boxes and steps)4
- Fast builds4
- Easy to get started4
- Docker based4
- Easy UI3
- Flexible configuration via YAML3
- Multi-target deploys2
- Trigger by branch name1
- Great UI, free and an active Slack channel :)1
- Docker support1
- Multiple configurable build steps1
