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Buildkite vs Semaphore: What are the differences?
What is Buildkite? Fast, secure and scalable CI/CD for all your software projects. CI and build automation tool that combines the power of your own build infrastructure with the convenience of a managed, centralized web UI. Used by Shopify, Basecamp, Digital Ocean, Venmo, Cochlear, Bugsnag and more.
What is 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.
Buildkite and Semaphore can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Buildkite are:
- Fast and stable builds
- Open source agent runs on almost any machine and architecture
- Freedom to use your own internal or pre-release tools and services
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
"Great customer support" is the primary reason why developers consider Buildkite over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Semaphore.
According to the StackShare community, Semaphore has a broader approval, being mentioned in 40 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Buildkite, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of Buildkite
- Great customer support18
- Github integration17
- Easy to use16
- Easy setup16
- Simplicity12
- Simple deployments10
- Simple and powerful configuration9
- Bitbucket integration4
- Github enterprise integration3
- Amazing swag3
- Integrates with everything2
- Sourcecode is hosted by source code owner.1
- Configuration in cloud1
- Run your own test containers with their AWS stack file1
- Superior user experience1
- Great ui1
Pros of Semaphore
- Easy setup20
- Fast builds15
- Free for private github repos14
- Great customer support8
- Free for open source6
- Organizations ready5
- Slack integration4
- SSH debug access2
- GitHub Integration2
- Easy to use1
- Continuous Deployment1
- Pipeline builder GUI1
- BitBucket integration1
- Docker support1
- Simple UI1
- Parallelism1
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