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  5. GitHost CI vs Jenkins vs Semaphore

GitHost CI vs Jenkins vs Semaphore

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Overview

Semaphore
Semaphore
Stacks190
Followers187
Votes83
Jenkins
Jenkins
Stacks59.2K
Followers50.4K
Votes2.2K
GitHub Stars24.6K
Forks9.2K
GitHost CI
GitHost CI
Stacks0
Followers7
Votes5

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Detailed Comparison

Semaphore
Semaphore
Jenkins
Jenkins
GitHost CI
GitHost CI

Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

We handle installing, updating, hosting, and backing up your own private and secure GitLab CE & CI instances in the cloud, starting at $7/month.

Docker, Kubernetes, iOS support & 100+ preinstalled Tools;Customizable Continuous Delivery Pipelines;Customizable Stages, Parallel Execution and Control Flow Switches;Secrets and Dependency Management;Powerful Command Line Interface;Autoscale and Pay Only What you Use;Project Timeline Shows All Development Activities at a Glance;Dashboard Shows You All Projects That You Participate in;Seamless GitHub Integration - One Click To Add a Project;Automatically Test Your App After Every Change;New Branches are Added & Removed Automatically;Know If a Pull Request Is Good To Merge;Review Every Version in Branch History;Easily Run Your Tests in Parallel Threads;Projects are Autoconfigured for Testing;
Easy installation;Easy configuration;Change set support;Permanent links;RSS/E-mail/IM Integration;After-the-fact tagging;JUnit/TestNG test reporting;Distributed builds;File fingerprinting;Plugin Support
Create a Coordinator and link it to any GitLab CE install, whether GitLab Cloud, a GitHost instance, or your own private install.;eed extra build capacity? Move the slider and click update. Done. Instant runners to build all your CI jobs.;All GitHost instances run on SSD drives, giving you the fastest build times available.;Uptime Monitoring;Automatic Backups;Instance Metrics
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
24.6K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
9.2K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
190
Stacks
59.2K
Stacks
0
Followers
187
Followers
50.4K
Followers
7
Votes
83
Votes
2.2K
Votes
5
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 20
    Easy setup
  • 15
    Fast builds
  • 14
    Free for private github repos
  • 8
    Great customer support
  • 6
    Free for open source
Pros
  • 523
    Hosted internally
  • 469
    Free open source
  • 318
    Great to build, deploy or launch anything async
  • 243
    Tons of integrations
  • 211
    Rich set of plugins with good documentation
Cons
  • 13
    Workarounds needed for basic requirements
  • 10
    Groovy with cumbersome syntax
  • 8
    Plugins compatibility issues
  • 7
    Lack of support
  • 7
    Limited abilities with declarative pipelines
Pros
  • 2
    Github Integration
  • 1
    Affordable
  • 1
    Integrated CI
  • 1
    Easy setup
Integrations
GitHub
GitHub
Slack
Slack
Heroku
Heroku
Docker
Docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
No integrations availableNo integrations available

What are some alternatives to Semaphore, Jenkins, GitHost CI?

Travis CI

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

Codeship

Codeship

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.

CircleCI

CircleCI

Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.

TeamCity

TeamCity

TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.

Drone.io

Drone.io

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.

wercker

wercker

Wercker is a CI/CD developer automation platform designed for Microservices & Container Architecture.

GoCD

GoCD

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers business a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility.

Shippable

Shippable

Shippable is a SaaS platform that lets you easily add Continuous Integration/Deployment to your Github and BitBucket repositories. It is lightweight, super simple to setup, and runs your builds and tests faster than any other service.

Buildkite

Buildkite

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.

Snap CI

Snap CI

Snap CI is a cloud-based continuous integration & continuous deployment tool with powerful deployment pipelines. Integrates seamlessly with GitHub and provides fast feedback so you can deploy with ease.

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