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Blue Ocean vs Codeship: What are the differences?
Developers describe Blue Ocean as "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. On the other hand, Codeship is detailed as "A Continuous Integration Platform in the cloud". 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.
Blue Ocean and Codeship can be primarily classified 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, Codeship provides the following key features:
- Run you automated tests | Easily set up Codeship with Github or Bitbucket and trigger your automated tests with a simple push to your repository.
- 100 builds & 5 private projects free per month.
- Free for OSS.
"Beautiful interface" is the primary reason why developers consider Blue Ocean over the competitors, whereas "Simple deployments" was stated as the key factor in picking Codeship.
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.
Product Hunt, InVisionApp, and Sellsuki are some of the popular companies that use Codeship, whereas Blue Ocean is used by CityLiv, Nexus National Security Network, and iCodeBetter. Codeship has a broader approval, being mentioned in 277 company stacks & 82 developers stacks; compared to Blue Ocean, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.
Pros of Blue Ocean
- Beautiful interface7
Pros of Codeship
- Simple deployments215
- Easy setup179
- Github integration159
- Continuous deployment147
- Bitbucket integration110
- Easy ui97
- Slack integration84
- Fast builds66
- Great ui61
- Great customer support61
- SSH debug access28
- Free plan for 5 private repositories27
- Easy to get started27
- Competitively priced23
- Notifications20
- Hipchat, Campfire integrations20
- Awesome UI16
- Fast15
- Great documentation14
- Great experience13
- Free for open source12
- Great Tutorials10
- GitLab integration4
- Free4
- Easy to use, above all and its free for basic use4
- Easy for CI first timers3
- BitBucket Support3
- Very easy to get started3
- Build private Github repos on the free plan3
- Awesome3
- Super easy setup, works great with py.test/tox2
- Openshift integration2
- Great support, even on free tier2
- AppEngine integration2
- Easy debugging with ssh2
- Integrates with other free software2
- Superfast team work integration2
- Grepping Codeship = 1 day. Grepping Bamboo = 1 month2
- Easy to set up, very nice GitHub integration2
- Up and running in few minutes, and above all UI2
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Cons of Blue Ocean
Cons of Codeship
- Ui could use some polishing3
- Antiquated ui0
- Difficult to answer build questions0