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Build Automation Tools Guide
What are Build Automation Tools?
Build automation tools help in the process of scripting, building and automating executable applications from binary source code through a script. Compare the best Build Automation tools currently available using the table below.
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Linx
Twenty57
A low-code platform that enables the rapid development and deployment of back-end applications like APIs, integrations and automations. - Easy-to-use, drag-and-drop IDE designer - Design and debug solutions in a familiar procedural style - 100+ Prebuilt components for services, programming functions, actions & automations - Deploy with one click to servers running in the cloud or on-premise. - Easily Integrate with SaaS tools, legacy systems and any ODBC, OLE DB and NoSQL databases - Create, host or consume REST or SOAP APIs - Trigger automations with timers, incoming API calls and message queues - Typically 5x faster to automate a task than traditional software developmentStarting Price: $49 per month -
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GitHub
GitHub
GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.Starting Price: $7 per month -
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SaltStack
SaltStack
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems. -
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Jenkins
Jenkins
The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. -
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GoodBarber
GoodBarber
GoodBarber is an App Builder, developed in France, enabling users to create native mobile apps for iOS and Android and PWAs (Progressive Web App) without coding. By industrializing the creation process, GoodBarber can significantly reduce the cost of owning an app. With more than 40 million apps downloaded each year, GoodBarber receives ongoing feedback to maintain the quality, performance and robustness of its apps at the highest level. GoodBarber's offer is made up of 3 main products: - eCommerce apps: providing an impeccable shopping experience on smartphones has become an essential requirement for doing business online. - Content Management apps : for content editor, community manager or local business manager. your message must be accessible from several channels to reach your audience. Your readers will access it from a native mobile app for iOS and Android or a PWA. - Reseller program: generate income by creating and selling apps without codingStarting Price: $25.00/month -
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Bamboo
Atlassian
Bamboo offers first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery. Deployment projects automate the tedium right out of releasing into each environment, while letting you control the flow with per-environment permissions.Starting Price: $10 for up to 10 jobs -
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CircleCI
CircleCI
Automate your development process with CI hosted in the cloud or on a private server.Starting Price: $50.00/month -
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DronaHQ
DronaHQ
DronaHQ is a low-code platform to build internal tools and custom apps for the web and mobile. Developers and engineering teams use this platform to create admin panels, CRUD apps, GUI for Databases or APIs, forms, dashboards & operational apps. DronaHQ supports unlimited users across all pricing plans. - Build Web and Mobile Apps - Add actions and events with powerful builder - Built-in database available - Ready templates for internal tools, dashboards, checklists, process apps - Ready to use connectors to over 50+ databases and APIs - Strong community + Helpful product documentation and tutorials - BPM Workflows & Automation Builder - Signup for Free trial With 3000+ Apps built and 1 million+ users supported, DronaHQ is a platform trusted by global companies.Starting Price: $100/month -
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Launchdeck
Launchdeck
Build and deploy code automatically from your repository to your server with zero-downtime and instant rollbacks. Launchdeck is our answer to the complicated process of deployment. It’s an automated code deployment tool with a super-clear user interface and various smart features that’ll do (almost) all the tedious work for you.Starting Price: 8.5$/month -
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FlowCentric Processware
FlowCentric Technologies
FlowCentric Processware is a business process management solution that allows organizations to quickly develop process-driven applications. With FlowCentric Processware, users are able to manage complex business processes that run across different devices, systems, and departments. FlowCentric Processware also features activity monitoring dashboards that allow users to gain deeper insight into their processes. FlowCentric Processware is ideal for organisations that want to embrace digital transformation, innovate easily and gain results quickly. Companies use FlowCentric Processware to develop flexible process-driven solutions; extend the life of ERP systems; and add meaningful action to the data collected by IoT devices. The software is perfect for companies with 100+ employees that want to digitise an unlimited number of processes, improve operational efficiency, and enforce legislative controls.Starting Price: $13,341 -
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Hostman
Hostman, Inc
Hostman - cloud platform that deploys and scales your web applications. It saves developers lots of time, and businesses lots of money, because it automates DevOps, with CI/CD out of the box. Hostman is very easy to use, intuitive, and flexible: on Hostman you can host static websites, back-end applications, Docker containers, and databases. Scaling has never been easier. Just enable it and it will scale your application automatically within the limits you set up. The service is completely free for your static website or front-end app. What's more, it includes a free SSL certificate and global CDN (45 full-stack edge locations with 65+ Tbps total throughput) out of the box. For back-end services we offer very simple pricing using a pay-per-use model (from $6.50). Our service is global, so you can host your application anywhere in the world. We host your services on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and Digital Ocean.Starting Price: $6.50 per month -
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FlowWright
IPS
Business Process Management Software (BPMS) & BPM Workflow Automation Tool. Companies need workflow, forms, compliance, and automation routing support. Our low-code options make creating + editing workflows simple. Our best-in-class forms capabilities, make it possible to rapidly build forms, forms logic, and workflows for forms-driven workflow processes. Companies have many existing systems in place that need to work with each other. Our business process integrations across systems are loosely-coupled + intelligently integrated. When you use FlowWright to automate your business, you gain access to standard metrics and metrics that you define. BPM analytics are a key part of any BPM workflow management software solution. FlowWright can be deployed as a cloud solution or deployed in an on-premise or .NET hosted environment (including AWS and Azure). It was built in .NET Foundation C# code and all tools are fully browser-based, requiring no plug-ins. -
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Travis CI
Travis CI
Founded in 2011, Travis CI is a software organization based in Berlin that offers a piece of software called Travis CI. Software pricing starts at $63/month Bootstrap plan. Travis CI offers online support. The Travis CI software suite is SaaS, Windows, Mac, and Linux software. Travis CI is application development software, and includes features such as code assistance, compatibility testing, debugging, deployment management, Reporting/Analytics, and version control. Travis CI offers a free version and free trial. Travis CI features training via documentation, live online, and webinars. Some competitor software products to Travis CI include CircleCI, Launchdeck, and Codeship.Starting Price: $63/month Bootstrap plan -
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JFrog Pipelines
JFrog
JFrog Pipelines empowers software teams to ship updates faster by automating DevOps processes in a continuously streamlined and secure way across all their teams and tools. Encompassing continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), infrastructure and more, it automates everything from code to production. Pipelines is natively integrated with the JFrog Platform and is available with both cloud (software-as-a-service) and on-prem subscriptions.Starting Price: $98/month -
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Microtica
Microtica
Automating your workflow can be achieved by using pipelines as they are the heart of the CI process in Microtica. The build process of every component and microservices, whether it’s triggered manually or automatically, is done in a pipeline. The build process is defined by a single source of truth, a microtica.yaml file in the root folder of the repository. With user customizability as a key feature, every user is able to define how their build process is done and what commands are ran by changing the microtica.yaml file.Starting Price: $99/month -
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Buildkite
Buildkite
Run the open-source buildkite-agent on your own infrastructure for maximum speed, control, and security. The agent checks out your source code, executes custom hooks and overrides, and then runs your build jobs. Your source code never leaves your infrastructure. You can install the agent using one of our packages and binaries for almost every platform and architecture, including Ubuntu, Debian, Mac, Windows, Docker, and more. The agent’s artifact and meta-data storage allows for share-nothing, state-free build jobs that can be easily distributed and scaled across any number of agents. Run as many build agents as you need (up to 10,000 connected per account), without breaking a sweat. The open-source Elastic CI Stack for AWS gives you an easy-to-maintain, elastically scaling CI stack in your own AWS account. Or if you prefer to roll your own, you can use the tools you’re already familiar with in your production environments (such as Packer and Terraform).Starting Price: $15 per user per month -
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DeployHQ
Krystal
Build and deploy code straight from your repos. A service packed with features to help you automate and manage the continuous deployment of your websites. DeployHQ handles all the hard work getting files from your repositories to your servers. This is how it works and the secrets behind the magic. It’s really as easy as 1, 2, 3. Deploy with zero downtime for your website or app. We’ll upload all your changes and then make them live at the same time to avoid any issues while files are copied. Zero downtime deployments (or atomic deployments as they're sometimes known) allow changes to be prepared on the server and made live simultaneously. Historically, changes are all uploaded into a live directory which means some times are updated before others which can lead to inconsistencies. With zero downtime deployments, all changes are prepared in a staging directory and then moved into place once all changes are ready.Starting Price: $10.50 per month -
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21YunBox
21YunBox
21YunBox has been described as "the Netlify and Heroku of China." 21YunBox enables teams from around the world to deliver their best work legitimately to China. 21YunBox Edge ensures that your website will have blazing fast speeds across China. Developers worldwide love 21YunBox because we enable them to use the tools they love and trust in China. For example, popular headless CMSs like Sanity, Contentful, DatoCMS, DatoCMS, WordPress, and Shopify do not work in China. But with 21YunBox, they will. Like Netlify and Vercel in the West, 21YunBox provides you the best option to deploy and host your Jamstack site in China. We support popular static site generators like Gatsby.js, Next.js, and many others. 21YunBox also gives you a Heroku-like backend service for China. Allowing you to host backend frameworks like Ruby, Express, Flask, and others. -
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TeamCity
JetBrains
Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box. Define up to 100 build configurations (jobs) and run unlimited builds. Run up to 3 builds concurrently. Add extra agents when necessary. Utilize the full potential of all the TeamCity features. This product includes features identical to those available to our largest customers. Receive peer support through the forum, alternatively file a bug or feature request, and vote for them in our public issue tracker. Unlimited users, unlimited build time. No strings attached. Build, check and run automated tests on the server even before committing your changes – keeping your code base clean at all times. Don’t wait for a build to finish to discover that something is wrong. Form your project tree to inherit parent settings and permissions. Create templates with common settings and inherit any number of build configurations from them.Starting Price: $299.00/year -
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Codeship
CloudBees
Do you want everything set up for you instantly, or do you want to customize your environment and your workflow? CodeShip lets the developer pick the path that’s best for them, to maximize productivity and let teams evolve over time. From deployments to notifications to code coverage to security scanning and on-premise SCMs, CodeShip lets you integrate with any tool, service or cloud you need for your organization’s perfect workflow. Not only do we make CodeShip easy to use, we also provide fast and thorough developer support. When you need help or identify a problem, you want to talk to someone technical sooner rather than later, and that’s what you’ll get with CodeShip. You can get your builds and deployments working in less than 5 minutes with CodeShip’s turnkey environment and simple UI. From there, you can evolve into more sophisticated workflows and config-as-code as your projects grow.Starting Price: $49.00/month -
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Gradle
Gradle
Gradle, Inc. consists of the Gradle Build Tool (www.gradle.org) and Gradle Enterprise (www.gradle.com) for speeding up and debugging Maven and Gradle builds and tests. Gradle Build Tool is the most popular build tool for open source JVM projects on GitHub. It is downloaded on average more than 15 million times per month and has been counted in the Top 20 Most Popular Open Source Projects for IT by Techcrunch. Many popular projects have migrated from Maven to Gradle, with Spring Boot being a prominent example. Gradle Enterprise is the first only software build performance acceleration and analytics platform. The most prestigious software development teams in the world use it to cut build times in half and give developers back one day per week in lost productivity time. Acceleration technologies (Build Cache, Distributed Testing) speed up the software build and test process and data analytics (Failure Analytics, Trends & Insights) make troubleshooting more efficient.Starting Price: $XXX/user/yr -
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Atomist
Atomist
Introducing our new automation platform, delivering pre-built automations called skills. Automate all your repetitive and nuanced tasks like replacing strings in projects, updating npm dependencies, running a code quality scan, or build your own skill to solve your unique requirements. Teams using Atomist have the flexibility to apply pre-built automations, called skills, across all their repositories, development activities, and operations events. The execution of a skill is triggered by an event-based action important to your team, like a commit, build, deployment, or the creation of an issue. -
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Incredibuild
Incredibuild
Incredibuild turbocharges C++ development with our Virtualized Distributed Processing technology that turns every host into a supercomputer with hundred and even thousands of cores. Incredibuild seamlessly supports any continuous integration tools, build systems, and compilers. Using the same code, processes, and tools, C++ developers and managers accelerate product development with 8x faster builds, 80% shorter release cycles, and 5x the number of iterations. 200,000 devs and managers at over 2,000 companies, including world-leading brands like Microsoft, Amazon, Citibank, Adobe, Disney, Intel, Samsung, EPIC Games, Nintendo, and many more rely on Incredibuild to turbocharge their development and continuously delight their customers. -
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PWSLab
PWSLab
A single secured DevOps solution built for both Web and Mobile technologies. Git-based Source Control, Security and Compliance, Automated builds and testing, Continuous Delivery to infrastructure, Monitoring and more.Starting Price: $8 per user/month -
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Drone
Harness
Configuration as a code. Pipelines are configured with a simple, easy‑to‑read file that you commit to your git repository. Each pipeline step is executed inside an isolated Docker container that is automatically downloaded at runtime. Any source code manager. Drone integrates seamlessly with multiple source code management systems, including GitHub, GitHubEnterprise, Bitbucket, and GitLab. Any platform. Drone natively supports multiple operating systems and architectures, including Linux x64, ARM, ARM64 and Windows x64. Any language. Drone works with any language, database or service that runs inside a Docker container. Choose from thousands of public Docker images or provide your own. Create and share plugins. Drone uses containers to drop pre‑configured steps into your pipeline. Choose from hundreds of existing plugins, or create your own. Drone makes advanced customization easy. Implement custom access controls, approval workflows, secret management, yaml syntax extensions and more.
What Do Build Automation Tools Do?
A build script is used to compile source code into machine code during the software development lifecycle. This is where build automation tools function.
Completed code will be integrated to a shared environment. It will interact with the other components of the software built by developers. Before integrating the code, it is necessary to guarantee that the newly introduced code will not have a negative impact on the work other developers within the team have done.
In most cases, build automation happens via a scripting language. This allows developers to link processes and modules inside the compilation process. We can divide the scripting process into various tasks, including testing, documentation, distribution of binary software code, and compilation.
Build automation software allows certain repeatable tasks that are commonly performed during the software development process to be automated. The tasks are typically simple and repeatable. Examples include running automated tests or compiling source code.
Software testing products and build automation software typically work well together. Integration is also possible with IDEs, version control systems, bug tracking tools, and Platform as a Service providers. You can divide build automation into three lesser categories. They are configuration management, continuous integration, and other build automation.
Build automation typically depends on standard IDE processes that are repeatable and used for compiling source code into binary code. These processes may be used to compress binary code, do packaging, run automated tests, create installers, or update information so it exists in a central repository.
Build automation plays a vital role in DevOps. It makes it possible to create a continuous delivery model while establishing best practices. The result is a more flexible relationship between IT operators and development.
The Continuous Integration and Build Deployment Process
If your end goal is continuous integration and build deployment, your first step would be to adapt the build tool.
Build tools will give you features that include plug-ins, source code management functionalities, build functionalities, parallel testing, dependency management, and compatibility with IDE.
Challenges Faced in Build Automation
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Longer builds take longer to run. A developer’s productivity is decreased as wait times increase.
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Large volumes of builds present other challenges. If a large volume of builds is running, access to build servers will be limited during that time.
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A third challenge is presented by complex builds. The more complex the build, the more manual efforts are required. Flexibility is greatly reduced.
The Benefits of Automation Build Tools
You derive several benefits from automation build tools. Here are some examples.
Save Time and Money
These tools will automatically keep a history of builds and releases. This reduces time when investigating issues.
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You will be less dependent on key personnel by using these tools. This will free them up to focus on other projects.
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The build process is accelerated.
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Redundant tasks are performed automatically.
If you look at the image below, you will see how the automation software development process works. This explanation is based on the Jenkins tool. This is our number one rated build automation software.
Pricing Information
Many build automation tools are free as they are open source. Others are available for a one-time fee or on a subscription basis. Pricing varies based on several factors. One factor is the number of nodes or containers desired. Other factors include the number of parallelisms desired and the number of agents needed. Paid plans offer the benefit of faster build and deployment times. They have additional security features and offer extended scalability.
Learn More about Build Automation Software
When judging between software options, pay careful attention to the available integrations. This is the only way that you can guarantee you will make the right choice based on the needs of your organization. The build automation software you choose must function with the software application and other tools that your organization is currently using.
If you do not choose well, instead of minimizing expenses and time waste, the wrong build automation software could make the job you do harder. You can completely circumvent needing to purchase expensive and time-consuming customized script interfaces if you choose a software that already is pre-constructed with APIs that are specifically designed to work with the software you have.
Build automation, when it is carried out properly, can help your company deliver a higher quality software. You can accomplish tasks faster and with less expense and minimized risk.