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Buildkite

Fast, secure and scalable CI/CD for all your software projects

What is Buildkite?

CI and build automation tool that combines the power of your own build infrastructure with the convenience of a managed, centralized web UI. Used by Shopify, Basecamp, Digital Ocean, Venmo, Cochlear, Bugsnag and more.
Buildkite is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.

Who uses Buildkite?

Companies
74 companies reportedly use Buildkite in their tech stacks, including Shopify, Affirm, and Trade Republic.

Developers
122 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Buildkite.

Buildkite Integrations

Git, GitHub, Docker, Slack, and GitLab are some of the popular tools that integrate with Buildkite. Here's a list of all 21 tools that integrate with Buildkite.
Pros of Buildkite
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Great customer support
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Github integration
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Easy to use
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Easy setup
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Simplicity
10
Simple deployments
9
Simple and powerful configuration
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Bitbucket integration
3
Github enterprise integration
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Amazing swag
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Integrates with everything
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Sourcecode is hosted by source code owner.
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Configuration in cloud
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Run your own test containers with their AWS stack file
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Superior user experience
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Great ui

Blog Posts

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Buildkite's Features

  • Fast and stable builds
  • Open source agent runs on almost any machine and architecture
  • Freedom to use your own internal or pre-release tools and services
  • Powerful distributed build tools
  • Key/value targeting of agents
  • Dynamic job allocation allows adding and removing build machines
  • Shared key/value and binary artifact stores for easily distributing build jobs regardless of machine or network
  • Integration with pull requests, deployments and releases
  • GitHub, Github Enterprise, Bitbucket, Gitlab or your own SCM
  • Slack, Hipchat, Webhooks, and LIFX notifications
  • Extensible per-project with agent hooks, webhooks and the rest API
  • GitHub Enterprise is supported standard
  • SSO

Buildkite Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Buildkite?
CircleCI
Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
TeamCity
TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.
GitLab
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
Bamboo
Focus on coding and count on Bamboo as your CI and build server! Create multi-stage build plans, set up triggers to start builds upon commits, and assign agents to your critical builds and deployments.
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