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    CloudBees Codeship

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACodeship from CloudBees is a build automation platform from the Austrian company of the same name.N/A

    GNU Make

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AGNU Make is an open source and free build automation tool.N/A
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    CloudBees CodeshipGNU Make
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    CloudBees CodeshipGNU Make
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    CloudBees CodeshipGNU Make
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.1
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    Support Rating
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    7.1
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    User Testimonials
    CloudBees CodeshipGNU Make
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CloudBees
    Codeship is extremely well suited for projects that are version controlled on public hosting such as Github or Bitbucket, and for situations where you need to pick up code from these systems and deploy it to different cloud environments. For example, we had two projects for the same client that were hosted on Github and needed to be deployed to AWS and Heroku. The native CI/CD tools of these cloud environments could not provide a holistic solution to deploy to both environments the way Codeship did.
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    GNU Make is a great tool for simple builds where language-specific options are not available, or to provide shortcuts for common commands (e.g., "make build" as shorthand for "go build ..." with a bunch of flags). However, it is complementary to other build systems. It does not replace them, which is perhaps one of its greatest strengths as well (works with existing ecosystem instead of trying to do everything). GMU Make it simple to get started with, and the philosophy of understanding how sources map to outputs, as well as the dependency graph, are beneficial.
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    Pros
    CloudBees
    • Codeship provides a set of tools for quickly creating and building our deployment artifacts and push them to the designated servers.
    • Codeship's hooks allows our developers to simply push tags from our git repositories to initiate a deployment of code to a server. No one outside of the devops team needs any expertise to get our code packages delivered.
    • Codeship allows us to tie in behat and unit tests easily to prevent delivery of buggy code.
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    Cons
    CloudBees
    • I would like to see a little bit more than the green/red status. If there are tests, it would be good to see how many have failed on a red build.
    • To improve build times (and reduce feedback times), it would be good to see how long build, tests, and deployment take over time. An overview like that could very easily point to potential areas of improvement. I think Codeship users do not want to bother with the build process, but, if there is anything to improve and increase productivity it's very unlikely that users wouldn't want to do this.
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    Open Source
    • No dependency management tools (but there are no cross-platform tools of this type anyway)
    • Tedious to do cross-compilation (Debug & Release builds, 32- and 64-bit builds, x86/ARM builds)
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    CloudBees
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    Alternatives Considered
    CloudBees
    Our company uses Jenkins for all internal deployment processes for one very important reason - it's hosted internally. But Codeship is great for personal use - it has intuitive UI, easy setup and tons of integrations.
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    Open Source
    I'm a full-stack developer that has used various build tools, including Maven, Gradle, and NPM/yarn. For our C projects, I also investigated CMake and Ninja, but they seemed more difficult to learn and more tedious to work with. GNU Make is a single binary that can be easily downloaded, even for Windows under MingW32, is straightforward to learn, and works pretty well despite its age.
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    Return on Investment
    CloudBees
    • Having the code tested thoroughly. While it's obviously a part of the job that still requires the developer to sit down and to actually have some decent and thorough tests implemented, by using codeship we were able to guarantee 100% that our code was being tested each and every time it got commited and pushed onto our repositories. Leading to a faster, shorter and sure implementation iterative cycle.
    • Fewer 'man in the middle' processes which required more steps and people involved just to get the code shipped onto our deployment servers.
    • Almost inexistent learning curve. Codeship is simple to use and very intuitive. Nobody in our development department had a hard time figuring out how to have it properly configured for each new project created there.
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    ScreenShots

    CloudBees Codeship Screenshots

    Screenshot of Get an overview of all your builds, identify failed builds easily and take action right from the dashboard.Screenshot of Information for a single build, inspect log files for each step and notice at a glance which pipeline and step are failing.Screenshot of Simply enter your setup and test commands, or choose from templates available for a wide range of stacks.Screenshot of Deploy to various web services without having to worry about the process. Simply choose your deployment target, which branch you want to deploy and off you go.Screenshot of We take care of all the complicated parts of the deployment. You simply fill in the blanks and you're all set.Screenshot of Get notifications for your builds on a multitude of services. You can also ping your own services to implement custom logic.