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by joncampbelldev 3266 days ago
For a lightweight pipeline based CI tool (with no docker requirements) you may like buildkite. I use it for almost everything I used to do in jenkins, although I still keep jenkins around as a glorified cron job / easy generic task runner.

(not associated with buildkite, just a very happy customer)

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buildkite looks nice - but on premise is a current requirement, as not all our repos are on the internet. Looks like a cool product though
buildkite can be done entirely on your own infrastructure (for the purposes of source control and builds), its an interesting setup:

- the ui is SaaS, but it doesn't care about your repos or build agents

- the build agent runs on your machines (they communicate outwards only with the SaaS product to decide if they should start building)

- all pipeline config is kept inside your repo

- you can hook up any source control to connect to buildkites webhooks, they just happen to have an integration to the common SaaS source control tools (github etc)

A nice extra is that running your own build agents lets you keep costs down. If you are on AWS they have a "one-click" setup for a cloud formation template that gives you an auto-scaling build environment