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Migrate your CI/CD from Bitbucket Pipelines to Semaphore
- ✔️ Choose the CI/CD solution from a 100% specialized company
- ✔️ Enhance engineering excellence with CI/CD performance metrics
- ✔️ Easily model any DevOps workflow
Model any DevOps workflow
Semaphore is great at modeling complex delivery workflows for fast feedback with chainable pipelines, parallel execution, and dependency management.
Clear, concise documentation
The Semaphore team takes documentation seriously. No more sparse docs where you can’t find answers to your questions.
Visual Workflow Builder
Configure your pipelines in the YAML file or in the UI using the visual workflow builder. Visuals make it simple to build workflows and define dependencies.
Built-in CI/CD engineering metrics
Measure your team’s operational performance and get an overview of where your team can improve. Track pass rate, build frequency, mean time to recover, CI speed, and other metrics.
“Workflows that are relatively trivial on Semaphore require some rather creative juggling in Bitbucket Pipelines.”
D.Garwood
Compare Semaphore vs Bitbucket Pipelines
| Semaphore | Bitbucket Pipelines | |
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| Product type |  |
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| SaaS | ✅ | ✅ |
| Hybrid: run agents on customer-managed infrastructure | ✅ | ✅ |
| On-premises option | ✅ | ❌ |
| Setup & Maintenance | |
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| Graphical pipeline configuration | ✅ ⓘWorkflow Builder: point-and-click interface to create and edit pipelines
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❌ |
| Intuitive project dashboard | ✅ ⓘCustomize the dashboard that shows your deployment activity |
❌ ⓘProject dashboards have limited functionality |
| GitHub support | ✅ | ❌ |
| Bitbucket support | ✅ | ✅ |
| Gitlab support | Planned | ❌ |
| Command-line interface | ✅ ⓘCLI can manage projects and do everything the UI can
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✅ |
| Continuous Integration | |
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| Test results reporting and insights | ✅ ⓘSee which tests passed/failed, find slowest tests to speed up development process.
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❌ |
| Debugging feedback loop | ✅ ⓘFast debugging via SSH access to both running and finished jobs.
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❌ |
| Native artifacts storage | ✅ ⓘSemaphore can store artifacts on its side
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✅ |
| Continuous Delivery | |
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| Manage multiple deployment environments | ✅ | ✅ |
| Multi-stage releases | ✅ ⓘCombine automatic steps with manual approval to ensure maximum reliability when delivering to users.
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❌ |
| Automatic and manual promotions | ✅ ⓘChain pipelines together for any CD workflow (blue/green, canary, etc).
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❌ |
| Deployment dashboards | ✅ ⓘSee which versions of all your applications have been deployed to which environment.
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❌ |
| Deployment queues | ✅ ⓘControl which pipelines must run sequentially to prevent conflict and which may run in parallel.
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❌ |
| Performance | |
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| Top-of-market performance | ✅ | ❌ |
| Autoscaling parallelism | ✅ | ❌ |
| Allocate more CPUs and RAM to complex jobs | ✅ | ❌ |
| Built-in artifacts store | ✅ | ❌ |
| Built-in Docker registry | ✅ | ✅ |
| Support | |
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| Email-based account and technical support | ✅ | ✅ |
| Video call support | ✅ | ❌ |
| Support SLAs | ✅ | ❌ |
| Custom solution engineering | ✅ | ❌ |
| Dedicated customer success manager | ✅ | ❌ |
| Private Slack channel | ✅ | ❌ |
Case studies
“We were using Jenkins to build the old system, and it was hard to maintain and quite painful. We looked at other hosted CI services, but they were very unreliable. When we found Semaphore, we got our application up and running pretty quickly. We now use it for all projects.”
Lukas Oberhuber
CTO at Simply Business
“Semaphore allows us to build anywhere from two to twenty branches in parallel, each one in a threaded environment. We had thousands of tests that were running for a really long time and with Semaphore we got the build to run in under 20 minutes.”
Artem Lypiy
QA Lead at 500px
“Semaphore 2.0 allows us to build, tag, push, and run Docker images easily. This makes building a powerful pipeline where we can deploy to our Kubernetes cluster fairly easily and quickly.”
Nic Cavigliano
Senior Software Engineer