TravisCI vs BuildBot vs Bamboo vs Jenkins

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 22-2-2017 01:32, Alan Somers 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?

Hi Alan,

Using Jenkins for my Ceph building....
	http://cephdev.digiware.nl:8180/jenkins/

More or less to give the other Ceph-developers access to errors/warnings
that Clang on FreeBSD generates with their code.
And it will alert me when there are commits on ceph/master that will
break the master build.

Setup/install was rather painless.
Integration with GitHub from my end was rather simple, and I just poll
GitHub to see if code has been added. That was a simple tick in a box.
Could even integrate it the other way around, and have GitHub ping me if
new versions needed to be build. But That I considered too much.

The Java stuff runs big, but I did not have to touch it.
I would not like to start doing things in Java, but up till now I did
not have to.

--WjW