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Semaphore vs Test Kitchen: What are the differences?
Developers describe Semaphore as "The continuous integration and delivery platform powering the world’s best engineering teams". Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams. On the other hand, Test Kitchen is detailed as "Integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms". Test Kitchen has a static, declarative configuration in a .kitchen.yml file at the root of your project. It is designed to execute isolated code run in pristine environments ensuring that no prior state exists. A plugin architecture gives you the freedom to run your code on any cloud, virtualization, or bare metal resources and allows you to write acceptance criteria in whatever framework you desire.
Semaphore and Test Kitchen belong to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.
"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 19 developers like Semaphore, while over 3 developers mention "Automated testing" as the leading cause for choosing Test Kitchen.
Test Kitchen is an open source tool with 1.62K GitHub stars and 543 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Test Kitchen's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Semaphore
- Easy setup20
- Fast builds15
- Free for private github repos14
- Great customer support8
- Free for open source6
- Organizations ready5
- Slack integration4
- SSH debug access2
- GitHub Integration2
- Easy to use1
- Continuous Deployment1
- Pipeline builder GUI1
- BitBucket integration1
- Docker support1
- Simple UI1
- Parallelism1
Pros of Test Kitchen
- Automated testing6
- Detect bugs in cook books4
- Integrates well with vagrant2
- Can containerise tests in Docker2
- Integrates well with puppet1