Buildbot vs Shippable: What are the differences?

Buildbot: Python-based continuous integration testing framework. BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure; Shippable: Shippable is a SaaS platform that lets you easily add Continuous Integration/Deployment to your Github & Bitbucket repos. 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.

Buildbot and Shippable belong to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Buildbot are:

• run builds on a variety of slave platforms
• arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
• minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted

On the other hand, Shippable provides the following key features:

• 1-Click Setup
• Docker Containers
• Responsive UI

"Highly configurable builds" is the primary reason why developers consider Buildbot over the competitors, whereas "Free private repositories" was stated as the key factor in picking Shippable.

Buildbot is an open source tool with 4K GitHub stars and 1.37K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.

esa, Reviewable, and Algorithmia are some of the popular companies that use Shippable, whereas Buildbot is used by Mozilla, Animoto, and Fetch Robotics. Shippable has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Buildbot, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.