Best Build Automation Tools
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What are Build Automation Tools?
Build automation tools are software tools that automate the process of compiling, testing, and deploying software applications. These tools help developers streamline the building of software from source code, ensuring that the process is repeatable, consistent, and efficient. Build automation typically includes compiling code, running unit tests, generating reports, packaging software, and deploying it to different environments. By automating these steps, build automation tools reduce human errors, improve efficiency, and support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. Compare and read user reviews of the best Build Automation tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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SaltStack
SaltStack
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems. -
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Travis CI
Travis CI
The simplest way to test and deploy your projects in the cloud or on-prem. Easily sync your projects with Travis CI and you’ll be testing your code in minutes. Check out our features – now you can sign up for Travis CI using your Assembla, Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab account to connect your repositories! Testing your open-source projects is always 100% free! Log in with your cloud repository, tell Travis CI to test a project, and then push. Could it be any simpler? Many databases and services are pre-installed and can be enabled in your build configuration. Make sure every Pull Request to your project is tested before it’s merged. Updating staging or production as soon as your tests pass has never been easier! Builds on Travis CI are configured mostly through the build configuration stored in the file .travis.yml in your repository. This allows your configuration to be version controlled and flexible.Starting Price: $63 per month -
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Azure Pipelines
Microsoft
Automate your builds and deployments with Pipelines so you spend less time with the nuts and bolts and more time being creative. Get cloud-hosted pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Build web, desktop and mobile applications. Deploy to any cloud or on‑premises. 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. Easily build and push images to container registries like Docker Hub and Azure Container Registry. Deploy containers to individual hosts or Kubernetes. Explore and implement a wide range of community-built build, test, and deployment tasks, along with hundreds of extensions from Slack to SonarCloud. Implement continuous delivery (CD) of your software to any cloud, including Azure, AWS, and GCP. Visualize deployment to any number of interdependent stages. -
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Bamboo
Atlassian
Bamboo offers first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery. Deployment projects automate the tedium right out of releasing into each environment, while letting you control the flow with per-environment permissions.Starting Price: $10 for up to 10 jobs -
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CircleCI
CircleCI
Automate your development process with CI hosted in the cloud or on a private server. Take control of your code and manage every source of change. CircleCI means change validation, at every step. Trust that you can release updates right when your customers need them, with the certainty they’ll work every time. The power to create without limits. Code in every language and across multiple execution environments. If you can write it, we can build, test, and deploy it. With flexible environments and thousands of pre-built integrations, your pipelines never limit the possibility of what you can deliver. We’re the only CI/CD platform that’s FedRAMP certified and SOC 2 Type II compliant. Built-in features like audit logs, OpenID Connect, third-party secrets management, and LDAP give you complete control of your code.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Launchdeck
Launchdeck
Build and deploy code automatically from your repository to your server with zero-downtime and instant rollbacks. Launchdeck is our answer to the complicated process of deployment. It’s an automated code deployment tool with a super-clear user interface and various smart features that’ll do (almost) all the tedious work for you.Starting Price: 8.5$/month -
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Viirtue
Viirtue
With video collaboration software, mobile capabilities, and a best-in-class streamlined quote-to-cash solution, Viirtue transforms white label VoIP & UCaaS so you can compete with the big players and easily scale your business with modern tools and excellent support. Rebrand our full suite of white label communication tools as your own, becoming a one-stop-shop for technology solutions without bringing on additional team members. Schedule a demo and see how our industry-leading platform, quote-to-cash software, and other proprietary automation can make running a unified communications business easy. Fair pricing algorithm that only charges for seats that are used and not multiple times for users with multiple devices. Our proprietary, all-in-one quote-to-cash software and reseller dashboard provides a turnkey tool for sales, quoting, tax automation, marketing, and online learning that supports your branded platform and gives you the edge on capturing and winning more business.Starting Price: $5/month per user -
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GoCD
ThoughtWorks
Easily model and visualize complex workflows with GoCD. GoCD’s value stream map shows your entire path to production in a single view. Easily navigate across jobs, spot inefficiencies, and optimize your process. No plugin required, out of box CD. GoCD streamlines your CD workflow on popular cloud environments such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and more. GoCD excels at modeling complex CD workflows for fast feedback with its modeling constructs, parallel execution and dependency management. GoCD helps you troubleshoot a broken pipeline by tracking every change from commit to deploy in real time. Compare content - both files and commit messages - across any two arbitrary builds. GoCD integrates with many popular external tools and services via its extensible plugin architecture. We have put a lot of thought into making sure GoCD upgrades are painless and non-breaking even when you are using plugins. There are numerous high-quality, curated plugins currently available.Starting Price: Free -
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Continua CI
VSoft Technologies
Continua CI is an Easy to use, Scalable and Affordable Continuous Integration Server. With an intuitive user interface, it takes just minutes to get up and running. With support for Visual Studio, MSBuild, Ant, Nant, Rake, FinalBuilder, Git, Hg, Svn, Perforce, and many other tools, Continua CI has something for everyone. Discover all the features that you can utilize to help streamline your build process using Continua CI. Continua CI's pricing model lets you get started with Unlimited Project, Unlimited Configurations, Unlimited Users. Free! Scaling up is affordable, unlike other continuous integration servers, idle agents do not consume expensive licenses. Get the most out of Continua CI through the Help and Resources section. You can get access to the latest videos, screenshots, articles and blogs relating to Continua CI. Download Continua CI and incorporate Continuous Integration into your build process for free. -
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JFrog Pipelines
JFrog
JFrog Pipelines empowers software teams to ship updates faster by automating DevOps processes in a continuously streamlined and secure way across all their teams and tools. Encompassing continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), infrastructure and more, it automates everything from code to production. Pipelines is natively integrated with the JFrog Platform and is available with both cloud (software-as-a-service) and on-prem subscriptions. Scales horizontally, allowing you to have a centrally managed solution that supports thousands of users and pipelines in a high-availability (HA) environment. Pre-packaged declarative steps with no scripting required, making it easy to create complex pipelines, including cross-team “pipelines of pipelines.” Integrates with most DevOps tools. The steps in a single pipeline can run on multi-OS, multi-architecture nodes, reducing the need to have multiple CI/CD tools.Starting Price: $98/month -
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Incredibuild
Incredibuild
Incredibuild is the leading platform for development acceleration. Our platform speeds up developer and CI builds with our distribution and caching technologies, cutting down wait times from hours and days to minutes. Most importantly, we do so without changing your code, tools, or processes, on prem or on the cloud. Incredibuild gives you better visibility into your builds, significant acceleration, and smarter build asset orchestration for 8-10x faster builds. 200,000 devs and managers at over 2,000 companies, including world-leading brands like Microsoft, Amazon, Citibank, Adobe, Disney, Intel, Samsung, EPIC Games, Nintendo, and many more rely on Incredibuild to turbocharge their development and continuously delight their customers.Starting Price: $0 -
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PWSLab
PWSLab
A single secured DevOps solution built for both Web and Mobile technologies. Git-based Source Control, Security and Compliance, Automated builds and testing, Continuous Delivery to infrastructure, Monitoring and more.Starting Price: $8 per user/month -
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Microtica
Microtica
Automating your workflow can be achieved by using pipelines as they are the heart of the CI process in Microtica. The build process of every component and microservices, whether it’s triggered manually or automatically, is done in a pipeline. The build process is defined by a single source of truth, a microtica.yaml file in the root folder of the repository. With user customizability as a key feature, every user is able to define how their build process is done and what commands are ran by changing the microtica.yaml file.Starting Price: $99/month -
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RapidDeploy
MidVision
Automate middleware provisioning and carry out reliable, regular and repeatable automated software deployments, with self-documenting and easily shareable deployment plans. Link tasks together into complex orchestrations, and carry them out with the click of a button. Visualize them clearly and control them easily via the RapidDeploy orchestration pane. Organize your organization’s release cycle with privilege and approval gates for improved efficiency, and gain the ability to deploy regularly into production as soon as updates are made. RapidDeploy is a powerful application release and deployment automation tool. Built for DevOps teams and enterprise continuous delivery, RapidDeploy delivers consistent high-volume deployments so your teams can focus on developing. We’ve been helping our customers realize the significant productivity gains that can be achieved through automating releases since 2008, and our engineers and consultants have accrued a wealth of expertise in this space.Starting Price: $1500.00/year -
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TeamCity
JetBrains
Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box. Define up to 100 build configurations (jobs) and run unlimited builds. Run up to 3 builds concurrently. Add extra agents when necessary. Utilize the full potential of all the TeamCity features. This product includes features identical to those available to our largest customers. Receive peer support through the forum, alternatively file a bug or feature request, and vote for them in our public issue tracker. Unlimited users, unlimited build time. No strings attached. Build, check and run automated tests on the server even before committing your changes – keeping your code base clean at all times. Don’t wait for a build to finish to discover that something is wrong. Form your project tree to inherit parent settings and permissions. Create templates with common settings and inherit any number of build configurations from them.Starting Price: $299.00/year -
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CodeShip
CloudBees
Do you want everything set up for you instantly, or do you want to customize your environment and your workflow? CodeShip lets the developer pick the path that’s best for them, to maximize productivity and let teams evolve over time. From deployments to notifications to code coverage to security scanning and on-premise SCMs, CodeShip lets you integrate with any tool, service or cloud you need for your organization’s perfect workflow. Not only do we make CodeShip easy to use, we also provide fast and thorough developer support. When you need help or identify a problem, you want to talk to someone technical sooner rather than later, and that’s what you’ll get with CodeShip. You can get your builds and deployments working in less than 5 minutes with CodeShip’s turnkey environment and simple UI. From there, you can evolve into more sophisticated workflows and config-as-code as your projects grow.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Gradle
Gradle
Gradle Inc. is the company behind the leading software solution for improving developer productivity and happiness called Develocity (formerly Gradle Enterprise) and the popular open-source Gradle Build Tool, which is downloaded over 30 million times a month. Gradle is also pioneering the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE). Elite development teams from companies like Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and Netflix, practice DPE to deliver quality software more rapidly at scale. They achieve this by leveraging Develocity’s innovative build and test performance acceleration technologies and analytics to proactively improve the reliability of the developer toolchain and make failure troubleshooting more efficient. -
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IBM® Rational® Build Forge® products offer an adaptive execution framework that creates a software assembly line to automate and accelerate software delivery. It allows you to standardize and automate repetitive tasks, uncover development bottlenecks, determine trends for specific projects and manage compliance mandates. Available in standard and enterprise editions, these products integrate into your current environment and support major development languages, scripts, tools and platforms. Accelerates build and release cycles through iterative development and parallel processes. Gives developers preconfigured build processes within their integrated development environments (IDEs). Simplifies compliance management with self-documenting audit trails and role-based security. Increases team efficiency with centralized build and release management using tools you already have.
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AWS CodeBuild
Amazon
AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. With CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use. With AWS CodeBuild, your build artifacts are encrypted with customer-specific keys that are managed by the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). CodeBuild is integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), so you can assign user-specific permissions to your build projects. AWS CodeBuild belongs to a family of AWS Code Services. -
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Atomist
Atomist
Introducing our new automation platform, delivering pre-built automations called skills. Automate all your repetitive and nuanced tasks like replacing strings in projects, updating npm dependencies, running a code quality scan, or build your own skill to solve your unique requirements. Teams using Atomist have the flexibility to apply pre-built automations, called skills, across all their repositories, development activities, and operations events. The execution of a skill is triggered by an event-based action important to your team, like a commit, build, deployment, or the creation of an issue. -
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inedo BuildMaster
Inedo
BuildMaster lets you release your software reliably, to any environment, at whatever pace the business demands. BuildMaster is a self-hosted, user-friendly CI/CD platform that can automate builds and deployments while giving the whole team visibility and control over the release process. BuildMaster stands in front of your tools like a command center, providing a consistent process across builds, deployments, and releases. Beginners and experts alike can build CI/CD pipelines with templates, drag-and-drop editors, and pre-existing PowerShell, Python, and other scripts. BuildMaster is self-managed, which means you have the option to run BuildMaster on-premises or in your private/public cloud. BuildMaster can replace and/or work with different build automation tools. Discover the differences, similarities, and compatibility with your existing tools. -
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Apache Maven
The Apache Software Foundation
Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. If you think that Maven could help your project, you can find out more information in the "About Maven" section of the navigation. This includes an in-depth description of what Maven is and a list of some of its main features. If the problem has not been reported before, the recommended way to get help is to subscribe to the Maven Users Mailing list. Many other users and Maven developers will answer your questions there, and the answer will be archived for others in the future. -
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OpenMake Meister
OpenMake Software
OpenMake Meister® delivers a highly reusable and accelerated build solution that can quickly adapt to changing development demands. It gives you control over the logic that drives your compile/link/archive process and eliminates the need for one-off scripts that are brittle and error prone. It accelerates builds, relieves congestion, stores binaries and gathers critical dependency information that can be used for release packaging. Accelerate CI with fast compiles and parallel processing using reliable dependency management across thousands of server pools. Meister reduces build times from hours to minutes. Standardize binary assembly for software builds that dynamically adapt to each version update. Our model-driven approach reduces or eliminates ad hoc scripting. Expose all artifacts of your release candidate, even those not managed by a version control solution. Meister Impact Analysis and Audit Reports eliminate guesswork.
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