Which CI/CD? Explained

Four questions route you to the CI/CD platform that fits your hosting, speed budget, and team.

Answer four questions. Each answer adds weight to one or more CI/CD platforms. The highest total marks the closest fit. Ties mean two platforms both suit your stack.

Decision guide · 4 options

The options

GitHub Actions

Workflow runner built into GitHub.

Your repos live on GitHub and you want YAML workflows with no separate product. The marketplace supplies actions for almost any task.

GitLab CI

CI built into GitLab through .gitlab-ci.yml.

You already host source on GitLab. Pipelines run without a second vendor, and runners scale in Docker.

CircleCI

Cloud runner focused on speed and parallelism.

Build minutes matter and you fan jobs across many nodes. Orbs package common integrations.

Jenkins

Self-hosted automation server with a large plugin catalog.

You must keep builds on your own hardware. Or you depend on plugins the cloud runners lack.

Which one fits you?

Answer a few questions to get a recommendation.

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