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GitLabとCircleCIの比較図
この比較図では、DevOpsのステージやカテゴリに分けてCircleCIとGitLabを比較しています。
要約
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Ca., CircleCI provides a service that automates the Continuous Integration stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Their CI service offering can be hosted in the cloud or on a private server. CI jobs are built within four different environments: a Docker image, a Linux VM, Windows VM, or a MacOS VM. They demonstrate their support of the Open Source Community by providing organizations with free credits for Open Source builds.
CircleCI Orbs
CircleCI can provide automated services for other stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using third party plug-ins that they call “Orbs”. They define Orbs as reusable/sharable packages of YAML configurations that condenses repeated pieces of configs into a single line of code. In other words, think of Orbs as a pointer that is included in the YAML configuration file that activates a piece of code during the build process that performs a function. The Orbs are housed in an open source code library.
Strengths
- YAML File: CI build jobs are configured in a YAML file
- Security Accreditations: CircleCI is FedRamp authorized and SOC 2 compliant
- Forrester Wave: CircleCI was recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud-Native Continuous Integration Tools, Q3 2019: speed, scale, security, and compliance.
- Catering to Large Enterprise:
- CircleCI provides a large number of preconfigured environments, which is highly favored by enterprises
- Despite a team size of just over 300 employees, CircleCI has a Customer Success Team and Enterprise support packages, also favored by enterprises
- iOS application testing on macOS: CircleCI offers support for building and testing iOS projects in macOS virtual machines (available on CircleCI Cloud only, not currently available on self-hosted installations).
- GitLab is actively working on integrating this functionality, more details can be found here
不足部分
- Free Plan Trap: Their free plan offers a generous amount of free credits, 2,500/week. However, these credits are used to pay for CI run times across medium sized Linux and Windows machines only; and are used for Orb usage, Workspaces and Dependency Caching.
- No Single Integrated DevOps Application: CircleCI is a tool that automates the Continuous Integration stage of the Software Development Life Cycle. To extend the functionality beyond CI, integration with third party plugins is required. Plugins are expensive to maintain, secure, and upgrade. In contrast, GitLab is open core and anyone can contribute changes directly to the codebase, which once merged would be automatically tested and maintained with every change.
- Missing Enterprise Features: CircleCI lacks native support for key enterprise features such as Feature Flags, Kubernetes Support and Canary Deployments.
- Hybride CI: CircleCI lacks the ability to orchestrate a customers private server CI builds with their cloud hosted CI server
Pricing Plans
- Free ($0)
- 2,500 free credits/week
- Run 1 job at a time
- Build on Linux or Window (no macOS support)
- Does not support flexible payment option (credit card or invoice)
- Support Options:
- Community
- Performance (starting at $30/month)
- $15/month for the first 3 users and then $15/month for each added user
- Starts at 25,000 credits for $15
- Does not support flexible payment option (credit card or invoice)
- Support Options:
- Community
- Support Portal
- Global Ticket Support
- 8×5 SLAs available
- Account Team: Customer Success Manager
- Custom
- Plan customized for the customer
- Support Options:
- Community
- Support Portal
- Global Ticket Support
- 24×5 and 24×7 SLAs available
- Account Team: Customer Success Manager, Customer Success Engineer, Implementation Manager
CircleCI to GitLab Migration
This Issue provides guidance on migrating CircleCI to GitLab.
