LayerCI vs Jenkins X: What are the differences?
LayerCI: CI that’s faster, easier and shareable as demo environments. Turn your CI pipelines into instant demo environments per commit.We take memory snapshots of your CI pipelines to turn them into hyper-efficient lambdas & demo environments; Jenkins X: A CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes. Jenkins X is a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes.
LayerCI and Jenkins X can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by LayerCI are:
- Start your whole stack in seconds
- Automatic demo environments
- Speed without needing Docker
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 3.63K GitHub stars and 699 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jenkins X's open source repository on GitHub.