The Results of a Comparison Between 5 CI/CD Services

AWS, Buddy, TravisCI, CircleCI, and GitLab

Last week, I wrote five different articles about CI/CD services. In each article, I took this Node application and deployed it to AWS with a different CI/CD service. See the individual posts below:

How To Build Your First CI/CD Pipeline With Buddy

How To Build Your First Travis CI/CD Pipeline

How To Build Your First AWS CodePipeline CI/CD Pipeline

How To Build Your First GitLab CI/CD Pipeline

How to build your first CircleCI CI/CD pipeline for a Dockerised Node app

Method

The steps followed for each CI/CD pipeline can be seen below. Notice how Docker Hub is used to store the built Docker images and Elastic Beanstalk is used to pull and run those images:

Results

The results can be seen in the table below. I encourage you to follow the guides to replicate these results yourself. A few notes:

• The configuration time is subjective as it depends on your familiarity with each tool. For transparency, I have previously set up…