TravisCI vs BuildBot vs Bamboo vs Jenkins
Oleksandr Tymoshenko
gonzo at bluezbox.com
Wed Feb 22 06:54:22 UTC 2017
Alan Somers (asomers at freebsd.org) wrote:
> All of the cool kids are hosting their projects on Github and using
> TravisCI for continuous testing. The integration is fairly slick.
> But TravisCI only supports OSX and Linux. Every time a user opens a
> feature request for FreeBSD support
> (https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1818,
> https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5473,
> https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/6671), it gets closed by
> a Travis employee who thinks that FreeBSD is a Linux distro.
>
> One overachiever managed to trick Travis into running FreeBSD by using
> QEMU to fire up a VM as an unprivileged user process and run his tests
> inside of that.
> https://erouault.blogspot.com/2016/09/running-freebsd-in-travis-ci.html
>
> And a few projects are even doing this very thing, though it seems
> like a bit abusive to me.
> https://travis-ci.org/rust-lang/libc/jobs/203950308
>
>
> So my question is, what's the best alternative?
>
> BuildBot can run on pretty much anything, and supposedly it can hook
> into all of the popular code hosting platforms.
> https://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/cfg-wwwhooks.html
>
> Bamboo is also very portable, and has a slick GUI to connect to
> Bitbucket. Unfortunately, it's closed-source, but free licenses are
> available for open-source developers. Unfortunately, it's written in
> Java.
> https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/totw-connecting-bamboo-and-bitbucket-cloud/
>
> Jenkins is free and portable and has some level of Github and
> Bitbucket integration. Unfortunately it's also written in Java.
> https://jenkins.io/solutions/github/
>
>
> Does anybody have experience with any of these solutions? Are there
> alternatives I've overlooked?
FreeBSD's CI is built using Jenkins: https://ci.freebsd.org also
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins so it must be working fine with
FreeBSD.
I've been using Jenkins for number of years (not in *BSD world though)
and I kind of like it despite somewhat trashy UI. My main complaint is
that you can't have CI pipeline description/settings in file in version
control (like in GitLab for instance) and have to set it up manually
via web UI or API. Other than that it's fairly good system.
--
gonzo
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