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Strider – Open-Source Continuous Integration and Deployment Server

57 points by tylermauthe 12y ago

zachrose 12y ago
If anybody is using this and can share their experience, I would love to hear it. As far as I can tell the only other significant self-hosted CI project is Jenkins, and I'm interested in alternatives.
- pbiggar 12y ago
  I'm curious as to the need for self-hosted - do hosted services not work for you? [Disclaimer: I work at https://circleci.com https://circleci.com, a competitor]
  - sandstrom 12y ago
    I think for many keeping source-code locked down is important. One could argue that i.e. this/Travis/you is better at security then the average software company [it's probably true!]. But I still think many are more comfortable with keeping the source-code under their control. Doing something like Github Enterprise for a reasonable price shouldn't be too difficult, I'd wager.
    - numo16 12y ago
      > I think for many keeping source-code locked down is important. This is the primary reason we went with self-hosted bamboo and octopus deploy for CI and deployment. It does move managing the infrastructure of it all over to our side, but it could always be worse, I suppose (previous jobs not having any sort of structured deployment workflow, in particular)
    - hckr1292 12y ago
      Ditto -- like the other respondent to this comment, our company has avoided solutions like Travis to keep our enterprise software source code closed. CircleCI's breach about a year ago was a little scary...
  - hesselink 12y ago
    I didn't post the grandparent, but we have a self-hosted Jenkins instance and have looked as hosted alternatives. One issue is that we use the build artifacts to deploy to developer machines, and those are Macs. So we need the CI setup to build Linux (for live deployment) and Mac binaries. From a quick browse it wasn't clear if circleci can do that.
  - necrodawg 12y ago
    I use circleci every day. My test suite is pretty big so I run them with 12x parallel and it takes about 5-8 minutes. On peak hour I almost always have failing tests because something on circleci's end segfaults. This is why I'm considering something self-hosted, it's an annoying problem to have to restart tests 1-3 times to get them to pass...
    - pbiggar 12y ago
      That's not good. Can you reach out to sayhi@circleci.com and we'll see how we can get this fixed?
- thisishugo 12y ago
  Drone.io[0] is available to run self-hosted. https://github.com/drone/drone https://github.com/drone/drone [0] https://drone.io https://drone.io
- sciurus 12y ago
  ThoughtWork's recently open-sourced Go. http://www.go.cd/ http://www.go.cd/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646197
- jms_ 12y ago
  If you want to self-host the agent (solves the sharing code problem) then Buildbox[0] is a very impressive tool. [0]: https://buildbox.io/#learn-more https://buildbox.io/#learn-more
sandstrom 12y ago
Seems interesting. Anyone who has tried this and Travis and can compare?
- michaelmior 12y ago
  I'm a Strider contributor. One of the things that attracted me to Strider is the ability to self-host and run private builds for free. Strider is easily hosted on Heroku although this can be somewhat limiting if you need additional services for your tests. The architecture is also highly componentized so it's quite easy to hack in support for a new language. When I first added support for Ruby, it took well under an hour.
jbrooksuk 12y ago
The website isn't loading for me. I see a YouTube video load in the bottom left corner, but then it disappears and I see nothing.
- softdev12 12y ago
  Same for me. Must be overwhelmed with HN traffic.
- raikage 12y ago
  Strider Open Source Continuous Integration & Deployment Demo YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVH24yQSHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVH24yQSHI
- niall_ohiggins 12y ago
  Please try the Github page instead, which stridercd.com should really be redirecting to anyway: https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider
softdev12 12y ago
This site isn't loading for me, but the concept of continuous integration is something that needs more open source tools. Some one should do a survey of all the companies and how close they come to 1 click CI. I'm guessing most people have at least 3 or 4 manual steps in their deployment processes.
justincormack 12y ago
Not loading, but its on github https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider
kylnew 12y ago
I did a presentation on Strider at the Full Stack Toronto conference this weekend. Here are the slides https://github.com/bitwit/fsto-cd-slides https://github.com/bitwit/fsto-cd-slides Personally I'm pro-strider because self hosting is cheaper than most hosted solutions and its a great way to learn and get started with CD. I think the barrier to starting CD is too high and its mainly a misconception of difficulty. Strider is a great way to just get started; you can even try locally with a simple 'npm install -g strider'
- tylermauthe 12y ago
  The intergrations are what attracted me. I can host it on Heroku and deploy to Heroku... Meta!
mrmondo 12y ago
Gave up waiting for the website to load after 30 seconds or so?
riffraff 12y ago
how does this compare to long established open source tools for CI (i.e. Jenkins) ? Maybe add a line or two in the Readme?

57 points by tylermauthe 12y ago

If anybody is using this and can share their experience, I would love to hear it. As far as I can tell the only other significant self-hosted CI project is Jenkins, and I'm interested in alternatives.

pbiggar 12y ago
I'm curious as to the need for self-hosted - do hosted services not work for you? [Disclaimer: I work at https://circleci.com https://circleci.com, a competitor]
- sandstrom 12y ago
  I think for many keeping source-code locked down is important. One could argue that i.e. this/Travis/you is better at security then the average software company [it's probably true!]. But I still think many are more comfortable with keeping the source-code under their control. Doing something like Github Enterprise for a reasonable price shouldn't be too difficult, I'd wager.
  - numo16 12y ago
    > I think for many keeping source-code locked down is important. This is the primary reason we went with self-hosted bamboo and octopus deploy for CI and deployment. It does move managing the infrastructure of it all over to our side, but it could always be worse, I suppose (previous jobs not having any sort of structured deployment workflow, in particular)
  - hckr1292 12y ago
    Ditto -- like the other respondent to this comment, our company has avoided solutions like Travis to keep our enterprise software source code closed. CircleCI's breach about a year ago was a little scary...
- hesselink 12y ago
  I didn't post the grandparent, but we have a self-hosted Jenkins instance and have looked as hosted alternatives. One issue is that we use the build artifacts to deploy to developer machines, and those are Macs. So we need the CI setup to build Linux (for live deployment) and Mac binaries. From a quick browse it wasn't clear if circleci can do that.
- necrodawg 12y ago
  I use circleci every day. My test suite is pretty big so I run them with 12x parallel and it takes about 5-8 minutes. On peak hour I almost always have failing tests because something on circleci's end segfaults. This is why I'm considering something self-hosted, it's an annoying problem to have to restart tests 1-3 times to get them to pass...
  - pbiggar 12y ago
    That's not good. Can you reach out to sayhi@circleci.com and we'll see how we can get this fixed?
thisishugo 12y ago
Drone.io[0] is available to run self-hosted. https://github.com/drone/drone https://github.com/drone/drone [0] https://drone.io https://drone.io
sciurus 12y ago
ThoughtWork's recently open-sourced Go. http://www.go.cd/ http://www.go.cd/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646197
jms_ 12y ago
If you want to self-host the agent (solves the sharing code problem) then Buildbox[0] is a very impressive tool. [0]: https://buildbox.io/#learn-more https://buildbox.io/#learn-more

sandstrom 12y ago

Seems interesting. Anyone who has tried this and Travis and can compare?

michaelmior 12y ago
I'm a Strider contributor. One of the things that attracted me to Strider is the ability to self-host and run private builds for free. Strider is easily hosted on Heroku although this can be somewhat limiting if you need additional services for your tests. The architecture is also highly componentized so it's quite easy to hack in support for a new language. When I first added support for Ruby, it took well under an hour.

jbrooksuk 12y ago

The website isn't loading for me. I see a YouTube video load in the bottom left corner, but then it disappears and I see nothing.

softdev12 12y ago
Same for me. Must be overwhelmed with HN traffic.
raikage 12y ago
Strider Open Source Continuous Integration & Deployment Demo YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVH24yQSHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVH24yQSHI
niall_ohiggins 12y ago
Please try the Github page instead, which stridercd.com should really be redirecting to anyway: https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider

softdev12 12y ago

This site isn't loading for me, but the concept of continuous integration is something that needs more open source tools. Some one should do a survey of all the companies and how close they come to 1 click CI. I'm guessing most people have at least 3 or 4 manual steps in their deployment processes.

justincormack 12y ago

Not loading, but its on github https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider https://github.com/Strider-CD/strider

kylnew 12y ago

I did a presentation on Strider at the Full Stack Toronto conference this weekend. Here are the slides https://github.com/bitwit/fsto-cd-slides https://github.com/bitwit/fsto-cd-slides Personally I'm pro-strider because self hosting is cheaper than most hosted solutions and its a great way to learn and get started with CD. I think the barrier to starting CD is too high and its mainly a misconception of difficulty. Strider is a great way to just get started; you can even try locally with a simple 'npm install -g strider'

tylermauthe 12y ago
The intergrations are what attracted me. I can host it on Heroku and deploy to Heroku... Meta!

mrmondo 12y ago

Gave up waiting for the website to load after 30 seconds or so?

riffraff 12y ago

how does this compare to long established open source tools for CI (i.e. Jenkins) ? Maybe add a line or two in the Readme?