Jenkins Alternatives for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Introduction and Comparisons
Alternatives
Cloud Native CI/CD
Integration with other CI/CD engines
Images
Slides
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

Concourse

Atlassian CI/CD

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

ShuttleOps

HashiCorp Waypoint

OneDev

TeamCity

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 DevOps Platform

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

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

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

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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