awesome-kubernetes/docs/jenkins-alternatives.md

Jenkins Alternatives for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

1. Introduction and Comparisons
2. Alternatives
   1. Circle CI
   2. Travis CI
   3. Concourse
   4. Atlassian CI/CD
   5. GitHub Actions
   6. Ketpn
   7. Azure DevOps
   8. ShuttleOps
   9. HashiCorp Waypoint
   10. OneDev
   11. TeamCity
   12. Octopus Deploy
   13. JFrog
       1. JFrog DevOps Platform
   14. Semaphore
   15. Devtron
3. Cloud Native CI/CD
   1. Jenkins X
   2. Spinnaker
   3. ArgoCD
   4. Tekton
   5. Jenkins X and Tekton on OpenShift
   6. HAT is the acronym for Helm, ArgoCD and Tekton
   7. Dagger
4. Integration with other CI/CD engines
5. Images
6. Slides
7. Tweets

Introduction and Comparisons

• lambdatest.com: 21 Of The Best Jenkins Alternatives For Developers
• dzone: Which CI is Best For My Team?
• inovex.de: Spinnaker vs. Argo CD vs. Tekton vs. Jenkins X: Cloud-Native CI/CD
• medium: Top 7 Best CI/CD Tools you should get your hands on in 2020
• dzone: Jenkins vs GitLab CI: Battle of CI/CD Tools The battle of CI/CD tools rages on — come and find out which is the right tool for your DevOps testing needs.
• lambdatest.com: TeamCity vs. Jenkins: Picking The Right CI/CD Tool
• cBamboo vs Jenkins: Showdown Of CI/CD Tools
• blog.thundra.io: The CI/CD War of 2021: A Look at the Most Popular Technologies
• lambdatest.com: CircleCI Vs. GitLab: Choosing The Right CI/CD Tool
• ==acloudguru.com: Azure DevOps vs GitHub: Comparing Microsoft’s DevOps Tools== 🌟
• medium: Choosing a CI that grows at the same pace as a scale-up 🌟
• cloud.redhat.com: Top Open Source CI/CD Tools for Kubernetes to Know 🌟
  • Tekton
  • Argo
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins X
  • OpenShift Pipelines
  • Circle CI
  • GitLab
• devops.com: Best of 2021 – 7 Popular Open Source CI/CD Tools
• lambdatest.com: Jenkins vs Travis vs Bamboo vs TeamCity: Clash Of The Titans

Alternatives

• Cloudbees Flow
• GitLab CI
• Prow
• Agola
• harness.io
  • harness.io: AutoStopping Rules For Kubernetes Clusters Harness Intelligent Cloud AutoStopping Rules help manage your resources automatically to make sure that they run only when used, never when idle.
  • harness.io: Migrating CD Jenkins Pipelines To Harness Using Helm
• Drone
  • medium: Goodbye Jenkins: How Drone Simplifies CI/CD for Engineering Teams Everywhere
• Buildbot
• GoCD
• Codefresh
• skaffold Local Kubernetes Development. Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application, allowing you to focus on what matters most: writing code.
• AWS DevOps - CICD
• Google Cloud Build
• Kubeflow The Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes
• Screwdriver API Screwdriver is a self-contained, pluggable service to help you build, test, and continuously deliver software using the latest containerization technologies.

Circle CI

• Circle CI
• Getting started with Kubernetes: how to set up your first cluster
• Adding approval jobs to your CI pipeline
• Building CI/CD pipelines using dynamic config
• Managing reusable pipeline configuration with object parameters
• dev.to: CI/CD: Automating our build and deploy process
• towardsdatascience.com: How to Build an Automated Development Pipeline A playbook for developing software with minimum frustration
• circleci.com: Performing database tests on SQL databases

Travis CI

• Travis CI
• lambdatest.com: How To Build Your First CI/CD Pipeline With Travis CI?
• lambdatest.com: Building A CI/CD Pipeline With Travis CI, Docker, And LambdaTest

Concourse

• Concourse
• Building a continious deployment pipeline with Kubernetes and Concourse-CI

Atlassian CI/CD

• Atlassian CI/CD
• Bamboo
• lambdatest.com: How To Setup CI/CD Pipeline With Bamboo For PHP Projects

GitHub Actions

• GitHub Actions CI/CD
• docs.github.com: Learn GitHub Actions
• blog.bitsrc.io: Github Actions or Jenkins? Making the Right Choice for You GitHub Actions and Jenkins both get the job done. Let’sfind out whether it’s worth considering moving from Jenkins.
• openshift.com: Deploying to OpenShift using GitHub Actions
• particule.io: Automatic build with Github Actions and Github Container Registry
• proandroiddev.com: Improving CI/CD pipeline for Android via Fastlane and GitHub Actions
• redhat-actions
• redhat-actions/openshift-actions-runner
  • redhat.com: Red Hat and GitHub Collaborate to Expand the Developer Experience on Red Hat OpenShift with GitHub Actions Industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform now integrates with GitHub, bringing DevOps automation tools from the world’s largest developer platform into the OpenShift ecosystem
• Awesome GitHub Actions
• yokawasa/action-setup-kube-tools A GitHub Action that setupKubernetes tools (kubectl, kustomize, helm, kubeval, conftest, yq) and cache them on the runner. It is like a typescriptversion of stefanprodan/kube-tools with no command input param, but it's very fast as it installs the tools asynchronously.
• summerwind/actions-runner-controller This controller operatesself-hosted runners for GitHub Actions on your Kubernetes cluster.
• towardsdatascience.com: Jenkins for CI Is Dead: Why Do People Hate It and What’s the Alternative? GitHub actions How toautomatically build your Docker images; a case study.

Ketpn

• Keptn

Azure DevOps

• Azure DevOps
• k21academy.com: Azure pipelines VS Jenkins

ShuttleOps

• shuttleOps
• thenewstack.io: ShuttleOps: No-Code Docker and Kubernetes

HashiCorp Waypoint

• HashiCorp Waypoint
• hashicorp.com: Announcing HashiCorp Waypoint

OneDev

• onedev
• Hands-on GitOps with OneDev and Kubernetes

TeamCity

• TeamCity
• jetbrains.com: Storing Project Settings in Version Control
• blog.jetbrains.com: Configuration as Code, Part 1: Getting Started with Kotlin DSL
• github.com/OctopusDeploy/Octopus-TeamCity: JetBrains TeamCity plugin to trigger releases on build completion

Octopus Deploy

• Octopus Deploy - deployment tool
• octopus.com: Octopus Configuration-as-Code with a language based on Hashicorp's HCL
• octopus.com: Deployment process as code If youwant to do Octopus configuration as code today, we recommend using our .NET SDK which will always be supported. The Terraformprovider will be a simpler, more declarative approach, that we will support in the future.
• registry.terraform.io: octopusdeploy Provider
• github.com/OctopusDeploy/go-octopusdeploy Go API Client for OctopusDeploy. A Go client for the Octopus Deploy API. This client is used by the Octopus Deploy Terraform Provider.

JFrog

• JFrog Pipelines
• Shippable (now part of JFrog Pipelines)

JFrog DevOps Platform

• jfrog.com: JFrog DevOps Platform
• jfrog.com: Pipelines CI/CD and the JFrog Platform Difference
• jfrog.com: How I Leaped Forward My Jenkins Build with JFrog Pipelines
• youtube: jfrog - Modern App Deployments: How to use NGINX and JFrog to Automate your Blue/Green deployments
• cloud.redhat.com: Cloud DevOps With OpenShift and JFrog

Semaphore

• Semaphore Hosted CI/CD for teams that don’t like bottlenecks
• semaphoreci.com: Revving up Continuous Integration with Parallel Testing Is your CI/CD pipeline slow? Do wait times make you feel unproductive? Parallel testing is an indispensable technique for reducing wait times. And mastering it is key to getting the most out of CI/CD.

Devtron

• https://devtron.ai
• devtron-labs/devtron is an open source software delivery workflow for kubernetes written in go. Web based CI/CD Platform for Kubernetes.

Cloud Native CI/CD

• tynybay.com: ArgoCD vs FluxCD vs Jenkins X: Which GitOps implementation tool suits you the best?
• csweichel/werft Werft is a Kubernetes-native CI system. It knows no pipelines, just jobs and each job is a Kubernetes pod. What you do in that pod is up to you. We do not impose a "declarative pipeline syntax" or some groovy scripting language. Instead, Werft jobs have run Node, Golang or bash scripts in production environments.

Jenkins X

• jenkins-x.io
• cloudbees.com: what is jenkins-x
• devopstoolkitseries.com
  • youtube: Jenkins X: The Recipe For Continuous Delivery
• Book: The DevOps 2.6 Toolkit: Jenkins X
• Traces for your pipelines: Jenkins X v3 now comes with tracing support for your pipelines out of the box

Spinnaker

• spinnaker.io deployment tool
• Deploy Spinnaker CD Pipelines in Kubernetes
• speakerdeck.com: Introduction to Spinnaker Managed Pipeline Templates
• speakerdeck.com: Spinnaker Application management by Terraform Plugins
• medium: Spinnaker The Hard Way
• opensource.com: Why Spinnaker matters to CI/CD Spinnaker provides unique building blocks to create tailor-made,and highly-collaborative continuous delivery pipelines.
• medium: How we rolled out our Kubernetes platform in Adevinta Spain
• harness.io: Best Spinnaker Alternatives to Consider
• armory.io: Build a Deployment Pipeline with Spinnaker on Kubernetes
• jenkins-x.io: Traces for your pipelines Jenkins X v3 now comes with tracing support for your pipelines out of the box,using Grafana and Tempo directly to store and visualize traces.
• gspann.com: Significance of Using Spinnaker When Adopting a Kubernetes Environment 🌟 Spinnaker acts as a multi-cloud deployment tool to support continuous workflows in a Kubernetes nvironment. Understand the Spinnaker architecture and learn about the best practices that can help you better deploy applications on Kubernetes clusters.

ArgoCD

• ArgoCD Declarative GitOps CD for Kubernetes

Tekton

• Tekton

Jenkins X and Tekton on OpenShift

• Jenkins-X + Tekton on OpenShift
• CI/CD OpenShift and Tekton
• github.com/openshift/pipelines-tutorial
• https://github.com/jenkins-x/jenkins-x-openshift-image
• medium: Dailymotion’s journey from Jenkins to Jenkins X

HAT is the acronym for Helm, ArgoCD and Tekton

• empathy.co: HAT: CI/CD for Deploying Cloud Native Applications

Dagger

• ==dagger.io== CI/CD as Code that Runs Anywhere
• ==dagger/dagger: Dagger is a portable devkit for CICD== Using Dagger, software teams can develop powerful CICD pipelines with minimal effort, then run them anywhere.

Integration with other CI/CD engines

• CloudBees Integrates Software Delivery Management Platform With Google Cloud Build and Tekton to Break Down Development Silos

Images

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Slides

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Tweets

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THREAD: Is it possible that Kubeflow pipeline is one of the best CI/CD tools for Kubernetes?

I spent some time playing with Kubernetes & @kubeflow pipelines, and they have one feature which is just great:

You can define the pipeline with real code! pic.twitter.com/gNDzvvkCij

— Daniele Polencic (@danielepolencic) July 22, 2020

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