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  5. AWS CodeBuild vs Apache Ant

AWS CodeBuild vs Apache Ant

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Overview

Apache Ant
Apache Ant
Stacks250
Followers151
Votes7
GitHub Stars449
Forks449
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeBuild
Stacks443
Followers485
Votes43

Apache Ant vs AWS CodeBuild: What are the differences?

Apache Ant: Java based build tool. Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code; AWS CodeBuild: Build and test code with continuous scaling. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers.

Apache Ant can be classified as a tool in the "Java Build Tools" category, while AWS CodeBuild is grouped under "Continuous Integration".

Some of the features offered by Apache Ant are:

  • The most complete Java build and deployment tool available.
  • Platform neutral and can handle platform specific properties such as file separators
  • Can be used to perform platform specific tasks such as modifying the modified time of a file using 'touch' command

On the other hand, AWS CodeBuild provides the following key features:

  • Fully Managed Build Service
  • Continuous Scaling
  • Enables Continuous Integration

"Flexible" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Apache Ant, while over 4 developers mention "Pay per minute" as the leading cause for choosing AWS CodeBuild.

Apache Ant is an open source tool with 244 GitHub stars and 255 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache Ant's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Apache Ant has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to AWS CodeBuild, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Apache Ant
Apache Ant
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeBuild

Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers.

The most complete Java build and deployment tool available.;Platform neutral and can handle platform specific properties such as file separators;Can be used to perform platform specific tasks such as modifying the modified time of a file using 'touch' command;Scripts are written using plain XML. If you are already familiar with XML, you can learn pretty quickly;Automate complicated repetitive tasks;Interface to develop custom tasks;Can be easily invoked from the command line and it can integrate with free and commercial IDEs
Fully Managed Build Service;Continuous Scaling;Enables Continuous Integration;Integrates seamlessly with AWS services;FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild/faqs/
Statistics
GitHub Stars
449
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
449
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
250
Stacks
443
Followers
151
Followers
485
Votes
7
Votes
43
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 4
    Flexible
  • 1
    Simple
  • 1
    Easy to write own java-build-hooks
  • 1
    Easy to learn
Cons
  • 1
    Old and not widely used anymore
  • 1
    Slow
Pros
  • 7
    Pay per minute
  • 5
    Parameter Store integration for passing secrets
  • 4
    Integrated with AWS
  • 3
    Bit bucket integration
  • 3
    Streaming logs to Amazon CloudWatch
Cons
  • 2
    Poor branch support
Integrations
No integrations available
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeCommit
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitHub
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation
Jenkins
Jenkins
GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise

What are some alternatives to Apache Ant, AWS CodeBuild?

Jenkins

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.

Travis CI

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

Codeship

Codeship

Codeship runs your automated tests and configured deployment when you push to your repository. It takes care of managing and scaling the infrastructure so that you are able to test and release more frequently and get faster feedback for building the product your users need.

CircleCI

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.

Apache Maven

Apache Maven

Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.

TeamCity

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.

Drone.io

Drone.io

Drone is a hosted continuous integration service. It enables you to conveniently set up projects to automatically build, test, and deploy as you make changes to your code. Drone integrates seamlessly with Github, Bitbucket and Google Code as well as third party services such as Heroku, Dotcloud, Google AppEngine and more.

Gradle

Gradle

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.

wercker

wercker

Wercker is a CI/CD developer automation platform designed for Microservices & Container Architecture.

GoCD

GoCD

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers business a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility.

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