Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

Popular tools for continuous integration

There is a tremendous variety of choices for CI tools nowadays. They greatly vary on ease of use and also available features, and almost each one of them has some unique features that others will lack. Therefore, it is hard to give a good general recommendation because each project has completely different needs and also a different development workflow. There are, of course, some great free and open source projects, but paid hosted services are also worth researching. It's because open source software, such as Jenkins or Buildbot, are freely available to install without any fee, but it is false thinking that they are free to run. Both hardware and maintenance are added costs of having your own CI ...