Codeship vs Strider

Codeship vs Strider: What are the differences?

What is Codeship? 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.

What is Strider? *Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server *. Strider is an Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform. It is written in Node.JS / JavaScript and uses MongoDB as a backing store. It is published under the BSD license.

Codeship and Strider can be categorized as "Continuous Integration" tools.

Some of the features offered by Codeship are:

• 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.

On the other hand, Strider provides the following key features:

• add hooks to perform arbitrary actions during build.
• modify the database schema to add custom fields.
• register their own HTTP routes.

"Simple deployments" is the top reason why over 214 developers like Codeship, while over 5 developers mention "Free Open Source" as the leading cause for choosing Strider.

Strider is an open source tool with 4.33K GitHub stars and 434 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Strider's open source repository on GitHub.