CI

Travis CI

• Positive

• Hosted service (travis-ci.org)

• Configuration via YAML file

• Simple UI

• JDK 7 support

• Open source

• Root access (passwordless sudo)

• Negative

• Difficult local server setup

• Chrome is not preinstalled

• Unable to cancel builds

• Notes

• Ubuntu operating system

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Jenkins & CloudBees

• Positive

• Hosted service (cloudbees buildhive)

• Easy local server setup

• JDK 7 support

• Open source

• Chrome preinstalled

• Easy to cancel builds

• Negative

  • Config via webpage
  • Complicated UI
  • No root (CloudBees)

• Notes

• Fedora operating system

  • Updating from Fedora 13 to 17 on 2012/11/20

• Runs Sonatype Nexus Maven Repository mirror and will not always be up to date on Maven artifacts causing build failures.

CloudBees Links

• GitHub Commit Hooks
• Ruby & Bundler