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Jenkins vs. Circle CI

Jenkins and Circle CI serve as continuous integration (CI) tools that allow developers to integrate code branches during the development process and run a series of automated tests against them. They both transform the time?consuming, manual task of building, testing, and deploying software into a fast, automated process.

When comparing Travis CI with Jenkins, we need to consider our business needs and budget.

Jenkins

Jenkins is the most popular open-source automation server that was written in a java programming language. It facilitates the automation process of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in the software development process.

Jenkins supports over 1,400 plugins for other software tools. These plugins expand Jenkins into five years; platforms, UI, administration, source code management, and build management.

Jenkins is easy to install and use. It provides an impressive browser-hosted project management dashboard.

Some of the common reasons to evaluate and choose Jenkins include:

Open-source and free

Widely used and well documented

Vibrant user community

Integration with a large variety of tools and technologies.

Plugin support

Easy to install, configure and upgrade

Distributed builds

Monitoring external jobs

Support for various authentication methods, notification, version control system, etc.

Circle CI

Circle CI is a cloud-based tool that automates the integration and deployment process. It provides easy setup and maintenance without any difficulties. Circle CI is a cloud-based system, which means no dedicated server is required and no need for maintenance of server which has a free plan even for business accounts. It can be integrated with GitHub, Amazon EC2, dotCloud, Appfog, etc. and used by many companies such as Spotify, Facebook, RedBull, Harvest, and Teespring, etc.

Circle CI also focuses on testing every change to the code before it is deployed, using a number of methods such as unit tests, integrations tests, and functional tests. The tool supports containers, Linux, OSX, and can run within a private cloud or your own data center.

Circle CI comes with the following features:

Quick setup

Deep customization

Smart notifications

Automatic parallelization

It is easy and fast to start

Lightweight and easily readable YAML config

Don't need any dedicated server to run Circle CI.

It caches requirements installation and third-party dependencies instead of the installation of the environments.

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