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Drone.io vs wercker: What are the differences?
What is Drone.io? Open source continuous integration platform built on Docker. Drone is a hosted continuous integration service. It enables you to conveniently set up projects to automatically build, test, and deploy as you make changes to your code Drone integrates seamlessly with Github, Bitbucket and Google Code as well as third party services such as Heroku, Dotcloud, Google AppEngine and more..
What is wercker? Build, test, and deploy container-native applications. Wercker is a CI/CD developer automation platform designed for Microservices & Container Architecture.
Drone.io and wercker can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Drone.io are:
- Free for open-source
- GitHub, BitBucket integration
- Browser testing
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.
"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider Drone.io over the competitors, whereas "Automatic Deployments" was stated as the key factor in picking wercker.
Packet, Geocodio, and Clay.io are some of the popular companies that use Drone.io, whereas wercker is used by FashionUnited, Hazeorid, and Wantedly. Drone.io has a broader approval, being mentioned in 47 company stacks & 20 developers stacks; compared to wercker, which is listed in 40 company stacks and 23 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 Drone.io
- Open source51
- Built on docker50
- Free for open source27
- GitHub integration23
- Easy Setup18
- Hosted internally17
- Flexible scripting17
- Bitbucket integration10
- GitLab integration7
- Works with Heroku7
- Gogs integration6
- Browser testing4
- Works with Google AppEngine4
- Active Community4
- Works with Amazon3
- Works with Cloud Foundry2
- Gitea Integration2
- Configuration as code1
- Eazy to use1
- Easy tool to automate CI pipeline. Running in an hour1
- Easy pipelines1
- Only need yml config1
- Written in Go1
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
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Cons of Drone.io
- Very basic documentation3