GitHost CI vs Jenkins X: What are the differences?
Developers describe GitHost CI as "Painless GitLab CE & CI Hosting". We handle installing, updating, hosting, and backing up your own private and secure GitLab CE & CI instances in the cloud, starting at $7/month. On the other hand, Jenkins X is detailed as "A CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes". Jenkins X is a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes.
GitHost CI and Jenkins X can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by GitHost CI are:
- 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.
On the other hand, Jenkins X provides the following key features:
- Automated CI and CD - Rather than having to have deep knowledge of the internals of Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins X will default awesome pipelines for your projects that implements fully CI and CD
- Environment Promotion via GitOps - Each team gets a set of Environments. Jenkins X then automates the management of the Environments and the Promotion of new versions of Applications between Environments via GitOps
- Pull Request Preview Environments - Jenkins X automatically spins up Preview Environments for your Pull Requests so you can get fast feedback before changes are merged to master
Jenkins X is an open source tool with 2.8K GitHub stars and 498 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jenkins X's open source repository on GitHub.