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Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by jchonphoenix »

tfinch wrote: post #20

If I understand the offering, this is great. The differentiator seems to be the ability to use your current deployment tool to set up the test environment, meaning it's a lot closer to your real production environment. I recently spent a reasonable amount of time looking for a hosted CI solution that would run the particular version of postgis we use, rather than the 'latest and greatest,' but it seems like a lot of…

Hey tfinch, check out http://koalitycode.com (founder here). One of our huge value adds is flexibility and we give you sudo access to the machines you use.

I'd love to see if we match your use case and how we can improve. Can you shoot me an email (in my user info) with your thoughts?

Thanks!

Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by opendais »

pbiggar wrote: post #14
azov wrote: post #8

Would be nice if the page explained how Buildbox compares with other popular hosted CI tools, e.g. Jenkins ( http://jenkins-ci.org )?

Any thoughts on how this compares to CircleCI ( https://circleci.com - I'm a founder btw)?

https://circleci.com/ <- ftfy

Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by krohling »

pbiggar wrote: post #14
azov wrote: post #8

Would be nice if the page explained how Buildbox compares with other popular hosted CI tools, e.g. Jenkins ( http://jenkins-ci.org )?

Any thoughts on how this compares to CircleCI ( https://circleci.com - I'm a founder btw)?

Sounds like a "behind the firewall" solution to CI versus Circle's cloud model. I can see how it would be interesting to those that are sensitive to the cloud or have complex environment requirements.

Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by keithpitt »

ssw1n wrote: post #12

So how does it differ from Travis or Jenkins (or any other CI build tool really)?

Hi ssw1n!

Travis has chosen a very tight integration with GitHub and you run builds on their servers.

Jenkins is usually a hard thing for most people to setup. It's very old software and the UI hasn't changed in years.

I'm trying to find a middle ground between the two services. I can easily install ruby on a build slave, but trying to manage the build master is always a pain.

Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by keithpitt »

danial wrote: post #9

We're in similar space as you. My show HN didn't go that well and just rolled off the new page, so I wanted to make sure you received enough love from HN :) Why launch in private beta? Why not just let people sign up? Your landing page looks good and by the looks of the screenshots, your interface looks very clean too. Curious. Are you a team or is it just you? How long have you been building for?

Hi Danial,

We launched a private beta because we still have a heap of screens to style and cleanup, as well as some documentation.

We want to do installations with every one of our customers 1-1 in the beginning to make sure we iron out any kinks.

Thanks,

Keith from Buildbox

Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by keithpitt »

tfinch wrote: post #20

If I understand the offering, this is great. The differentiator seems to be the ability to use your current deployment tool to set up the test environment, meaning it's a lot closer to your real production environment. I recently spent a reasonable amount of time looking for a hosted CI solution that would run the particular version of postgis we use, rather than the 'latest and greatest,' but it seems like a lot of…

Hi tfinch,

Thanks for your feedback!

Yup, you're on the money with your assertion. Because Buildbox uses your own infrastructure, you can what ever postgis version you like :)

I'll keep an eye out for you in the beta survey (if you did it) and try to get you on the beta soon.

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox

Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by keithpitt »

shaggyfrog wrote: post #17

Does it do iOS builds? If so, how will it compare with the upcoming CI system in OS X Server 10.9/Xcode 5?

Hi shaggyfrog,

Yup! We 100% do iOS builds. If you have some spare Apple hardware about the place, you can hook Buildbox up to it, so you can start running your iOS and Mac builds right away!

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox

Re: Buildbox: A Hosted CI service that uses your own infrastructure to run builds

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Post by keithpitt »

azov wrote: post #8

Would be nice if the page explained how Buildbox compares with other popular hosted CI tools, e.g. Jenkins ( http://jenkins-ci.org )?

Hi azov,

Thanks for your feedback! We actually had a page that did that, but we decided to take it down - mainly because we want to finish our product fully before starting to compare ourselves to other solutions :)

Once we're out of beta we can put it back up.

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox

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