Comment by simianwords
17 days ago
What I find hardest about CI offerings is that each one has a unique DSL that inevitably has edge cases that you may only find out once you’ve tried it.
You might face that many times using Gitlab CI. Random things don’t work the way you think it should and the worst part is you must learn their stupid custom DSL.
Not only that, there’s no way to debug the maze of CI pipelines but I imagine it’s a hard thing to achieve. How would I be able to locally run CI that also interacts with other projects CI like calling downstream pipelines?
That’s the nice thing about buildkite. Generate the pipeline in whatever language you want and upload as JSON or yaml.
JSON or YAML imply a buildkite DSL as there's no standard JSON or YAML format for build scripts
I assume by DSL they mean some custom templating language built on top, for things like iterating and if-conditions. If it's plain JSON/YAML you can produce that using any language you wish.
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But do you provide SDKs in the languages? I mean even in gitlab I could technically generate YAML in python but what I needed was an SDK that understood the domain.