In the world of Continuous Integration and Deployment, there are countless tools. Here is a list of 21 of them that you must know.
Bill Gates was quoted as saying:
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
The DevOps movement over the last few years seems to be
strong empirical evidence for that statement — and the numbers seem to
support it, too. An Enterprise Management Associates research report
indicates that companies in which Continuous Delivery frequency
increased by 10% or more were 2.5 times more likely to experience
double-digit (≥10%) revenue.
It's safe to say that there are compelling reasons to do your
homework on automation. Maximizing efficiency and shortening the
feedback loop are vital to creating and maintaining a competitive edge.
To help you get started, here is our list of 21 automated deployment
tools you should know.
1. Jenkins
One of the leading Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI) tools on the market, Jenkins is an automation server with a high-level of extensibility and a large community of users. Jenkins forked from Oracle’s Hudson-CI in 2011 during a time when there were some public differences of opinion expressed amongst members of the developer community and Oracle.
2. ElectricFlow
ElectricFlow
is a release automation tool that offers a free community edition you
can run on VirtualBox. ElecticFlow supports a number of plugins and Groovy-based DSL, CLI, APIs.
3. Microsoft Visual Studio
One of the cornerstones of Microsoft’s DevOps offerings is Visual Studio. Visual Studio allows users to define release definitions, run automation, track releases, and more.
4. Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy
is built with the intent of automating deployment for .NET
applications. You can install Octopus Deploy on a server or host an
instance in Azure.
5. IBM UrbanCode
Purchased by IBM in 2013, UrbanCode automates the deployment to on-premise or cloud environments.
6. AWS CodeDeploy
Amazon’s automated deployment tool, CodeDeploy, boasts an impressive list of featured customers and platform and language agnosticism.
7. DeployBot
DeployBot
connects with any Git repository and allows for manual or automatic
deployments to multiple environments. DeployBot offers a myriad of
integrations including the ability to deploy through Slack.
8. Shippable
Shippable defines their own “pillars of DevOps” and their CI platform runs builds on Docker-based containers called minions.
9. TeamCity
TeamCity
is a CI server from Jet Brains. TeamCity comes with smart configuration
features and has official Docker images for servers and agents.
10. Bamboo
Bamboo Server
is the CI offering from the people at Atlassian, the makers of Jira and
Confluence. Bamboo advertises “integrations that matter” and offers a
“small teams” package that donates proceeds to the Room to Read charity.
11. Codar
Codar is a continuous deployment solution from HP. Deployments are triggered using Jenkins.
12. CircleCI
CircleCI
is a CI solution that puts an emphasis on its flexibility, reliability,
and speed. CircleCI offers solutions from source to build to deploy and
supports a variety of languages and applications.
13. Gradle
Gradle
is a build tool used by some of the biggest names in the industry like
LinkedIn, Netflix, and Adobe. Gradle uses Groovy build scripts,
build-by-convention frameworks, and considers its build tool to be a
general purpose tool along the same lines as Apache’s Ant.
14. Automic
Automic
seeks to apply DevOps principles to some of the back-end apps allowing
them to benefit from the same practices that many front-end web-based
apps have over the past few years.
15. Distelli
Distelli specializes in deploying Kubernetes Clusters anywhere but can be used with any cloud or physical server. According to this TechCrunch article, Distelli secured $2.8 million in Series A funding in December 2015 and was founded by former AWS employee Rahul Singh.
16. XL Deploy
XL Deploy
is an application release automation tool from XebiaLabs that supports a
variety of plugins and environments and uses an agentless architecture.
17. Codeship
Codeship is a hosted CI solution that supports customization through native Docker support.
18. GoCD
A CD server with an emphasis on visualizing workflows, GoCD is an open-source project sponsored by ThoughtWorks, Inc.
19. Capistrano
Capistrano
is an open-source deployment tool programmed in Ruby. The documentation
for Capistrano boasts its scriptability and “sane, expressive API."
20. Travis CI
Travis CI
can be synced to your GitHub account and allows for automated testing
and deployment. Travis CI is free for open-source projects.
21. BuildBot
BuildBot
is an open-source Python-based CI framework that describes itself as
“framework with batteries included.” BuildBot is geared towards use
cases where canned solutions just are not flexible enough.
Source: 21 Automated Deployment Tools You Should Know
Source: 21 Automated Deployment Tools You Should Know
