Azure Pipelines vs. Travis CI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Pipelines
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Users can automate builds and deployments with Azure Pipelines. Build, test, and deploy Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++, .NET, Android, and iOS apps. Run in parallel on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Azure Pipelines can be purchased standalone, but it is also part of Azure DevOps Services agile development planning and CI/CD suite.N/A
Travis CI
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Travis CI is an open source continuous integration platform, that enables users to run and test simultaneously on different environments, and automatically catch code failures and bugs.
$69
per month
Pricing
Azure PipelinesTravis CI
Editions & Modules
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1 Concurrent Job Plan
$69
per month
Bootstrap
$69
per month 1 concurrent job
2 Concurrent Jobs Plan
$129
per month
Startup
$129
per month 2 concurrent jobs
5 Concurrent Jobs Plan
$249
per month
Small Business
$249
per month 5 concurrent jobs
Premium
$489
per month 10 concurrent jobs
Platinum
$794+
per month starting at 15 concurrent jobs
Free Plan
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure PipelinesTravis CI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Azure PipelinesTravis CI
Considered Both Products
Azure Pipelines
Chose Azure Pipelines
We have used the GitHub CI/CD. Earlier we were using the Azure Pipelines but after GitHub had their actions, we integrated that for CI/CD. It runs the tests and makes a production build which can be live. GitHub CI/CD is more useful because we have to make script only once then …
Chose Azure Pipelines
The tools are very similar - but Azure Pipelines work best for Azure-based products are better suited for the stack. For our engineers, we could switch between all the various continuous integration/deployment tools without much issues, but it makes sense to use the stack …
Travis CI
Chose Travis CI
Jenkins is probably the leading choice for automation and has loads of features and a large community behind it, but it can be overkill for many projects. It also has more of a web 1.0 look and interface.
CircleCI is another similar big competitor, but cannot compete with Travis …
Chose Travis CI
There are a few other options out there, CircleCI, Codeship and Wrecker would be a few good ones I can also recommend, each one has its particularity but I believe Travis has the best interface and flexibility of all of them.
I'd recommend trying them all and seeing which one …
Chose Travis CI
Jenkins is much more complicated to configure and start using. Although, one you have done that, it's extremely powerful and full of features. Maybe many more than Travis CI. As per TeamCity, I would never go back to using it. It's also complicated to configure but it is not …
Chose Travis CI
There are a number of alternatives to Travis CI, but Travis remains the most popular, since it was one of the first to show up. It has a lot of examples, support for building dozens of languages, and good documentation. Significant portions of the system are open source, so you …
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User Ratings
Azure PipelinesTravis CI
Likelihood to Recommend
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6.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
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5.0
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Support Rating
-
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4.0
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User Testimonials
Azure PipelinesTravis CI
Likelihood to Recommend
With a fully Microsoft Azure based workflow - Azure Pipelines makes absolute sense. Azure Pipelines are robust and work very well with SonarQube for test coverage and are shared with our developers. This prevents the developers for pushing code without unit tests across our backend and frontend platforms. We have reduced our instances of manual regression tests especially when there are multiple teams working across the same repositories.
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TravisCI is suited for workflows involving typical software development but unfortunately I think the software needs more improvement to be up to date with current development systems and TravisCI hasn't been improving much in that space in terms of integrations.
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Pros
  • Code Integration/Code Deployment
  • Azure Engine Auto Scaling Up with help of Pipeline
  • Managing Version Control and deploy in rollback with just one click
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  • It's simple and easy to get started (it can detect the language being used based on build configuration files like a Maven pom.xml).
  • It's free (as in beer) for open source projects.
  • It has a responsive staff (you can file issues on GitHub to ask for new languages or packages to be supported, and the turnaround time isn't too bad for the free offering).
  • The user interface is beautiful and easy-to-use, including features like live-tailing in-progress builds.
  • It supports specifying private environment variables and encrypted credentials, so that you can safely automate deployments (for example, pushing built docker images to DockerHub).
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Cons
  • Error messaging when team members don't have permissions
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  • Travis CI is a fairly mature platform now, and most, if not all of the common complaints have been improved. This includes documentation and logs with color support.
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Usability
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TravisCI hasn't had much changes made to its software and has thus fallen behind compared to many other CI/CD applications out there. I can only give it a 5 because it does what it is supposed to do but lacks product innovation.
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Support Rating
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After the private equity firm had bought this company the innovation and support has really gone downhill a lot. I am not a fan that they have gutted the software trying to make money from it and put innovation and product development second.
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Alternatives Considered
We have used the GitHub CI/CD. Earlier we were using the Azure Pipelines but after GitHub had their actions, we integrated that for CI/CD. It runs the tests and makes a production build which can be live. GitHub CI/CD is more useful because we have to make script only once then just by few changes we can deploy it onto Azure, AWS, Google anywhere so we found it more convenient
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Jenkins is probably the leading choice for automation and has loads of features and a large community behind it, but it can be overkill for many projects. It also has more of a web 1.0 look and interface. CircleCI is another similar big competitor, but cannot compete with Travis CI's free account [in my opinion].
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Return on Investment
  • We don't have to deploy changes manually
  • But because of this that we automated some tasks, we need to be still aware of some edge cases we can meet and which can cause a pipelines failures
  • We can deploy changes pretty fast
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  • It saves you in infrastructure and setup costs, since running a server and installing and maintaining Jenkins can be a hassle.
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