Jenkins vs Red Hat Codeready Workspaces

Overview

Red Hat Codeready Workspaces

Stacks343

Followers461

Votes868

Jenkins

Stacks59.2K

Followers50.4K

Votes2.2K

GitHub Stars24.6K

Forks9.2K

Jenkins vs Red Hat Codeready Workspaces: What are the differences?

What is Jenkins? An extendable open source continuous integration server. 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.

What is Red Hat Codeready Workspaces? An in-browser IDE for rapid cloud application development (Previously known as Codenvy). Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provides developer workspaces, which include all the tools and the dependencies that are needed to code, build, test, run, and debug applications.

Jenkins and Red Hat Codeready Workspaces are primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" and "Cloud IDE" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Jenkins are:

Easy installation
Easy configuration
Change set support

On the other hand, Red Hat Codeready Workspaces provides the following key features:

Portable Developer Workspaces
Multi-Tenant
Workspace as Code

"Hosted internally", "Free open source" and "Great to build, deploy or launch anything async" are the key factors why developers consider Jenkins; whereas "Anywhere coding", "Open source and free for use" and "Java support" are the primary reasons why Red Hat Codeready Workspaces is favored.

Jenkins is an open source tool with 17.2K GitHub stars and 6.76K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jenkins's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Jenkins has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3095 company stacks & 34982 developers stacks; compared to Red Hat Codeready Workspaces, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 323 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Red Hat Codeready Workspaces	Jenkins
Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provides developer workspaces, which include all the tools and the dependencies that are needed to code, build, test, run, and debug applications.	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.
Portable Developer Workspaces; Multi-Tenant; Workspace as Code; Agile Workflow with JIRA and Microsoft VSTS; Cloud IDE with Intellisense and Refactoring; Downloadable and Hosted Deployments; Docker Machines; Integration with Developer Toolchain; Offline Development; Workspace Snapshots; Operations View; Multi-Machine; SSH / Terminal Access; RESTful Workspaces; Custom Plug-Ins; Based on Eclipse Che Open Source	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
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 24.6K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 9.2K
Stacks 343	Stacks 59.2K
Followers 461	Followers 50.4K
Votes 868	Votes 2.2K
Pros & Cons
Pros 101 Anywhere coding 87 Open source and free for use 82 Java support 69 Cloud development 43 Coding google cloud applications on my chromebook	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

What are some alternatives to Red Hat Codeready Workspaces, Jenkins?

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 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

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.

AWS Cloud9

Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.

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

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.