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What's the new hotness that people are replacing it with?

GitLab CI is a good choice for new projects. It’s incrementally adoptable, self hostable, there are lots of people working on it, and it will probably be around for a while.

I had the misfortune of having to use GitLab CI recently. GitLab gets a lot of leeway from HN, maybe because it's an underdog, but it wasn't ready for prime time. Several features were just broken, and several more did things in surprising ways (not what you usually want to see in a key infrastructure component).

Definitely, it has its problems. The documentation also seems to lag behind the product (and there are duplicated pages for CE and EE, very confusing).

Personally it was easy for me to switch from travis because all my CI scripts are actually bash scripts, so the .yml CI file is just a few lines pointing to those scripts. All I had to do with gitlab was make a base image to be the "CI image" with all the tooling necessary + docker-in-docker.

Drone, Circle CI, GitLab CI, Concourse CI, Semaphore, Travis CI

Drone is fantastic, but I am really looking forward to Github Actions which Is similar, and so accessible it is all but sure to take hold.

I’m a “huge Github fanboy” and think GH Actions is poised to do to current CI/CD tooling what Docker did to VMs.. which actually scares me a little. GH is aiming to be the centre of the development world as Google is with the web... which I guess is good — rising tide lifts all boats and such — but personally I’m worried it might actually stifle innovation and create some sorta bullshit tech bubble because of how much emphasis recruiters and developers put on having a GitHub presence. If you use Bitbucket or GitLab you’re some second class scum! Fanboyism is bad folks. Anyways yea, Drone is sick :)

Travis CI has been acquired recently and the new company gutted their dev team. I don't think it's a good idea to use it.

Not really a new hotness, but https://www.gocd.org/ is very good for building pipelines and graphs. Not so great for classical CI workloads (you can't say "test every branch that fits the pattern smokeme/*").

Upgrades to GoCD have been very predictable, in contrast to Jenkins :-)

I'm partial to Jetbrains TeamCity: https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

TeamCity is just a proprietary Jenkins with a worse interface, so no.

Not at all. It’s fundamentally much better designed software.

I've used both, so you can't convince me with such a poor argument. I happen to think TeamCity is the worse of the two, so there.

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