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Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

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Re: Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

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Post by pbiggar »

zachrose wrote: post #2

If anybody is using this and can share their experience, I would love to hear it. As far as I can tell the only other significant self-hosted CI project is Jenkins, and I'm interested in alternatives.

I'm curious as to the need for self-hosted - do hosted services not work for you?

[Disclaimer: I work at https://circleci.com, a competitor]

Re: Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

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Post by sandstrom »

pbiggar wrote: post #3
zachrose wrote: post #2

If anybody is using this and can share their experience, I would love to hear it. As far as I can tell the only other significant self-hosted CI project is Jenkins, and I'm interested in alternatives.

I'm curious as to the need for self-hosted - do hosted services not work for you? [Disclaimer: I work at https://circleci.com , a competitor]

I think for many keeping source-code locked down is important.

One could argue that i.e. this/Travis/you is better at security then the average software company [it's probably true!]. But I still think many are more comfortable with keeping the source-code under their control.

Doing something like Github Enterprise for a reasonable price shouldn't be too difficult, I'd wager.

Re: Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

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Post by hesselink »

pbiggar wrote: post #3
zachrose wrote: post #2

If anybody is using this and can share their experience, I would love to hear it. As far as I can tell the only other significant self-hosted CI project is Jenkins, and I'm interested in alternatives.

I'm curious as to the need for self-hosted - do hosted services not work for you? [Disclaimer: I work at https://circleci.com , a competitor]

I didn't post the grandparent, but we have a self-hosted Jenkins instance and have looked as hosted alternatives. One issue is that we use the build artifacts to deploy to developer machines, and those are Macs. So we need the CI setup to build Linux (for live deployment) and Mac binaries. From a quick browse it wasn't clear if circleci can do that.

Re: Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

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Post by michaelmior »

sandstrom wrote: post #4

Seems interesting. Anyone who has tried this and Travis and can compare?

I'm a Strider contributor. One of the things that attracted me to Strider is the ability to self-host and run private builds for free. Strider is easily hosted on Heroku although this can be somewhat limiting if you need additional services for your tests. The architecture is also highly componentized so it's quite easy to hack in support for a new language. When I first added support for Ruby, it took well under an hour.

Re: Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

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Post by numo16 »

sandstrom wrote: post #5
pbiggar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious as to the need for self-hosted - do hosted services not work for you? [Disclaimer: I work at https://circleci.com , a competitor]

I think for many keeping source-code locked down is important. One could argue that i.e. this/Travis/you is better at security then the average software company [it's probably true!]. But I still think many are more comfortable with keeping the source-code under their control. Doing something like Github Enterprise for a reasonable price shouldn't be too difficult, I'd wager.

> I think for many keeping source-code locked down is important.

This is the primary reason we went with self-hosted bamboo and octopus deploy for CI and deployment. It does move managing the infrastructure of it all over to our side, but it could always be worse, I suppose (previous jobs not having any sort of structured deployment workflow, in particular)

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