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Appveyor vs Bamboo: What are the differences?

What is Appveyor? Continuous Integration and Deployment service for busy Windows developers. AppVeyor aims to give powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment tools to every .NET developer without the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own build server.

What is Bamboo? Tie automated builds, tests, and releases together in a single workflow. Focus on coding and count on Bamboo as your CI and build server! Create multi-stage build plans, set up triggers to start builds upon commits, and assign agents to your critical builds and deployments.

Appveyor and Bamboo can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.

"Github integration" is the top reason why over 18 developers like Appveyor, while over 7 developers mention "Integrates with other Atlassian tools" as the leading cause for choosing Bamboo.

According to the StackShare community, Bamboo has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Appveyor, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

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Pros of Appveyor
Pros of Bamboo
  • 20
    Github integration
  • 18
    Simple, reliable & powerful
  • 12
    Hosted
  • 11
    YML-based configuration
  • 10
    Nuget support
  • 6
    Windows support
  • 4
    Free for open source
  • 4
    Automatic deployment
  • 3
    Great product, responsive people, free for open-source
  • 2
    Easy PowerShell support
  • 2
    Easy handling of secret keys
  • 1
    Remote Desktop into Build Worker
  • 1
    Advanced build workers available
  • 10
    Integrates with other Atlassian tools
  • 4
    Great notification scheme
  • 2
    Great UI
  • 1
    Has Deployment Projects

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Cons of Appveyor
Cons of Bamboo
  • 1
    Complex user interface
  • 1
    Poor documentation
  • 6
    Expensive
  • 1
    Low community support
  • 1
    Bad UI
  • 1
    Bad integration with docker

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What is Appveyor?

AppVeyor aims to give powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment tools to every .NET developer without the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own build server.

What is Bamboo?

Focus on coding and count on Bamboo as your CI and build server! Create multi-stage build plans, set up triggers to start builds upon commits, and assign agents to your critical builds and deployments.

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What are some alternatives to Appveyor and Bamboo?
TeamCity
TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
CircleCI
Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support.
GitLab
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
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