This page details and compares available CI-as-a-Service (CISaaS) platforms for open source communities.
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Work in progress as I (Trevor Bramwell ) compile research and slides from multiple presentations. |
SCM Support by Platform
This table details the support for CI systems to report back the status of builds to SCM providers.
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Builds, agents, runners: these are all different names providers use to refer to the compute machine CI/CD builds run on.
| Builder Size | ARM Builders | External Builders | |
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| Jenkins | N/A | N/A | Yes |
| CircleCI | 2 vCPUs, 4-8 Gb RAM, larger sizes | Yes/No | |
| Azure Pipelines | 2 vCPUs, 7 Gb RAM | Yes | |
Drone.io | Yes |
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| Github Actions | 2 vCPUs, 7 Gb RAM | Yes | |
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| GitLab-CI | 1 vCPU, 3.75 Gb RAM | Yes |
SaaS | VMs | Docker | Attach External | Platform + Arch | vCPUs | Ram (Gb) | Disk (Gb) | |
CircleCI | ✓ | ✓ | ✕* | Linux, OSX | 2 | 100 | ||
Gitlab-CI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Linux | 3.75 | 25 | ||
Azure Pipelines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Linux, OSX, Win | 7 | 10 |
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Linux
N/A
4-8
N/A
Drone.io (Cloud) | ✕ | ✓ | ✕* | Linux: x86, ARM | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Github Actions |
| yes |
| yes |
| yes |
| Linux, OSX, Win | 2 |
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| 7 | 10 |
Notes on Other Systems
There are several other CI SaaS platforms out there not included in this comparison for various reasons.
- Travis-CI
After the majority of senior staff was laid off when the company was acquired, Travis-CI has essentially been put into standby mode. No new major feature or changes are expected. - Bitbucket Pipelines
Bitbucket Pipelines requires code be hosted in Bitbucket and only provides 50 free minutes per-month for open source projects. - Appveyor
Originally the only place to get free Windows builds. There's little need to use them when Azure Pipelines provides all-if-not-more of the same services.