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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 keithpitt »

krohling wrote: post #24
pbiggar wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hi krohling,

Yup, you're right! Your tests run on your own infrastructure, in your own office, under your desk, in your data centre, where ever it may be.

When doing risk assessment on secure systems (think banking, billing, etc), some people will see uploading source code to services like Circle as a security risk.

Have you ever committed a password accidentally to a repo? I think everyone has at some point. If your code runs on any server thats out of your control, you're now at risk. Because your password is now on some random machine in the cloud. Sure - probably a low risk of actually being compromised - but for some companies - this is very important.

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 »

peterwwillis wrote: post #15

Is it just me, or has the entire Open Source/Free Software movement(s) been replaced by simple proprietary tools "in beta" pushed by profiteering young coders looking to start a micro-business oriented towards their peers? The great majority of these tools could be [and often are] written in a weekend, which is why it confuses me they'd be trying to sell it to someone. As soon as I see a shiny, polished web page with…

Hi peter,

Thanks for taking the time to give us some feedback!

Jenknis has been around forever, and probably will be. It's one of those pieces of software that just keeps on going. Like the movie Grease - sure it's rough around the edges, but it's still pretty damn good - and future generations will still watch it.

People will still write these tools in a weekend - and that's totally cool! They don't have to use Buildbox if they don't want to.

There are varying skill levels out there. Some devs are really happy to install Ruby on Ubuntu, but often have gripes installing Jenkins, managing permissions, etc. And for those "young coders" - Jenkins looks very dated. It's very difficult to navigate, and managing plugins is usually a pain.

Buildbox is a middle-ground between managing Jenkins, and having your CI run entirely for you in the cloud by other services.

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox

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