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1,824 views|1,672 comparisons
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639 views|779 comparisons
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Unhelpful support, unclear billing, and has offers ability to track usage
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Bamboo vs. Travis CI vs. Circle CI vs. Codeship
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    Bamboo vs. Travis CI vs. Circle CI vs. Codeship
    Continuous integration is a hot topic across the web right now and most conferences have at least a few devops talks that touch on CI and build tools. They usually go something along the lines of, use Phing with Jenkins and touch on the fact that Jenkins used to be called Hudson, has been around for ever and has a plugin for just about everything. I’m not going to mention Jenkins as we explore a few hosted CI solutions Hosting Your Own CI Server Managing any server is a timely process and a CI server is no different. Those Jenkins plugins don’t configure themselves. Smalls teams like ours don’t have the resources to commit to managing infrastructure and that is pretty scary when you’re talking about such a crucial aspect of the business. We’ve recently moved to a hosted continuous integration platform and below I’ve summarised the R&D I did before we made the big move. Bamboo I didn’t look at Bamboo again this time round so I don’t have much to say but I have given it a good test drive previously (about 18 months ago). Probably quite surprising that we didn’t give it more of a look since we use JIRA extensively but I wasn’t that impressed with it last time round. Bamboo is expensive, you have to pay Atlassian’s costs and then the cost of your AWS usage as well. You have to manage your own AWS images and instances. Configuring those instances isn’t as trivial as it could be and is just another way to waste time. Overall, the UI felt… Read more →
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    What do you like most about CircleCI?
    Top Answer:The solution offers continuous integration and continuous delivery.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CircleCI?
    Top Answer:Beware of skyrocketing bills as CircleCI does not provide transparency into how they charge refills. Their monthly billing statement is almost unreadable and their online dashboard doesn't provide… more »
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    What needs improvement with CircleCI?
    Top Answer:We've had occasional connectivity issues with cloud resources and build failure due to its own internal system setup and environment. That costs us credits. Support engineers do not thoroughly read… more »
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    Overview

    CircleCI is a leading platform for automating continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), valued for its capability to manage software updates efficiently. With an easy-to-configure system using YAML files and robust Docker support, CircleCI streamlines backend updates, frontend developments, and mobile app testing across devices. Its parallelism feature and insightful dashboard reduce processing times and improve workflow visibility, respectively, enhancing team collaboration and productivity while maintaining high-quality outputs across development stages.

    Easily sync your GitHub projects with Travis CI and you'll be testing your code in minutes. Travis CI for private repositories has plans for every size project. With Travis CI testing your open source project is 100% free.
    Sample Customers
    Shopify, Zenefits, Concur Technologies, CyberAgent
    Facebook, Heroku, Mozilla, Zendesk, twitter, Rails
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    CircleCI is ranked 11th in Build Automation with 5 reviews while Travis CI is ranked 17th in Build Automation. CircleCI is rated 6.6, while Travis CI is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of CircleCI writes "Unhelpful support, unclear billing, and has offers ability to track usage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Travis CI writes "Bamboo vs. Travis CI vs. Circle CI vs. Codeship". CircleCI is most compared with TeamCity, Tekton, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild, whereas Travis CI is most compared with Tekton, GitLab, Jenkins and TeamCity.

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