Semaphore Community Edition is a self-hosted continuous integration and delivery platform.
It helps development teams automate software builds and tests using YAML-defined workflows, parallel execution and self-hosted agents.
The platform supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and other Git servers. It offers a visual workflow editor, build caching, artifacts, test reports, secrets management, repository status checks and notification integrations. It can be installed on an Ubuntu server or deployed to Kubernetes.
Semaphore Community Edition comprises the code outside the repository’s ee directory. Enterprise Edition components are distributed under a separate commercial licence.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Defines CI/CD workflows using YAML configuration files.
- Provides a visual editor for creating and modifying workflows.
- Runs jobs in parallel to reduce build and test times.
- Supports self-hosted agents and initialization jobs.
- Integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and other Git servers.
- Supports build artifacts and dependency caching.
- Offers test reports, Markdown reports and an activity monitor.
- Stores project-level and organization-level secrets.
- Supports monorepo development workflows.
- Provides organization and project role management.
- Publishes repository status checks and build badges.
- Sends notifications through Slack and webhooks.
- Runs on a single Ubuntu machine or a Kubernetes cluster.
Website: github.com/semaphoreio/semaphore
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Developer: Semaphore Technologies
License: Apache License 2.0
Semaphore is written in Elixir. Learn Elixir with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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