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ApexSQL DevOps toolkit vs Relay: What are the differences?
What is ApexSQL DevOps toolkit? SQL database DevOps tool to implement continuous integration and delivery (CI CD). It enables users to create flexible CI and CD pipelines with highly customizable pipeline steps. These steps include: Build, Populate, Audit, Document, Test, Review, Package, Schema sync, Data sync, Deploy, Notify and Publish.
What is Relay? Event-driven DevOps automation (By Puppet). It is an event-driven DevOps platform. It listens to events from 3rd party services like AWS, Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira and more to trigger simpler, smarter workflows that automate tedious tasks. A lot of existing solutions either require a lot of upfront DIY work (AWS Lambda or running your own script) or they weren’t built for DevOps teams (Zapier, IFTTT).
ApexSQL DevOps toolkit and Relay can be primarily classified as "DevOps Automation" tools.
Some of the features offered by ApexSQL DevOps toolkit are:
- Build from source control
- Include static data in builds
- Generate synthetic test data
On the other hand, Relay provides the following key features:
- Event-driven workflows
- A single audit trail
- Workflows as code
