Travis CI

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Platform for testing and deploying codes

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4.1 /5
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Value for Money
3.9/5
Features
4.1/5
Ease of Use
3.9/5
Customer Support
3.3/5

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Bruce
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Powerful, free and easy DevOps

Reviewed on 03/02/2019

Travis hasn't let me down yet. This services handles more than 90% of our builds.

Pros

Travis does a few things really well:
1. Documentation - the documentation is extensive and complete, and one never has the feeling that there are "hidden features" that only the power users know about.
2. Speed - waiting for more than a few seconds for a build to start is extremely rare.
3. Deploy integrations - builds can be deployed to a set of services easily. This is probably the easiest way to set up continuous deployment if you're on a tight budget.

Cons

The build environment can be somewhat restrictive, forcing one to choose language-specific base images and not giving access to the underlying VM.

Aldo
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Review for Travis

Reviewed on 19/10/2022

Pros

I like the ease to setup the CI for automating the deployments in the different applications

Cons

probably the cost if you can start to use it and don't have an idea of estimate cost

Alternatives Considered

Jenkins

Reasons for Switching to Travis CI

for use the open source applications
Nicolas
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Loved Travis in the past, sad to be on my way out.

Reviewed on 22/06/2021

Between the cons described above, the service degradation I've observed in the past 6 months and your recent organizational and pricing changes (we are an open-source project and directly impacted), I'll be setting up Github actions to run my CI tests from here onwards (this is also about standardizing with other projects in my organization) and will deactivate my travis account.

Pros

It worked really nicely until about 6 months ago !
The previous unlimited open-source plan was generous, and a huge selling point.

Cons

Service has been less than ideal since the decision to move OSS projects travis-ci.org. We have felt this throttling of resources, and it was an indication that things were about tho change for the worse.

I was surprised to find that from one day to the next my CI builds weren't being run anymore.
Sure enough, you had a banner announcing the change from travis-ci.org to .com , but I didn't understand it would require changes on my side, and I didn't receive an email letting me know that my CI builds would just stop if I didn't manage it. I'll admit my fault in not checking more thoroughly.

Moving from .org to .com was not as easy as I would have liked (Why do I need to sign up for a beta? Why is it in beta, and why do you need more decisions from me that I don't have all the information to decide?), but I eventually got there.

Richard
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Travis-ing

Reviewed on 11/11/2021

Pros

It works. Which is always a good thing. Other tools exist, but Travis always seemed the simplest to implement with GitHub.

Cons

Seemingly no reason to change things but reworking the domain. Not exactly sure what the whole point was.

Ramindu
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Effective continuous integration on the cloud

Reviewed on 09/01/2020

Travis CI helped my teams build continuous integration pipelines running on Github projects extremely easy and rapid.

Pros

Travis CI is the go-to continuous integration tool for open source projects thanks to its tight integration with Github. It provides a great set of tools on the cloud for integrating existing and new Github projects, configuring their build parameters and running builds based on various Github events such as the opening of pull requests which gives an unprecedented level of control to project leads on how code is merged in to projects.

Cons

Travis is a bit complex to integrate with version control platforms other than Github. Configuration to make it work with other platforms such as private GitLab servers can be tricky.

Damien
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Works, but deprecated UI

Reviewed on 03/02/2021

Pros

It does the job with reliability. I have no reason to change.

Cons

The UI has not evolved for years I think. I'm constantly doing the same 10 clicks to do the same things everyday, that I could have done in 1-click with a better UI. There are no insights, no "nice to have".
It may work but I have absolutely no attachment to the product and could change without missing anything.
In fact, I'll probably rationalize the number of tools we have by switching to Heroku CI or Github Actions, since they do as much as Travis I have no need for another tool.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub, CircleCI and Heroku

Reasons for Switching to Travis CI

Well known. Easy to configure.
M. Serhat
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

One of the pioneers of CI/CD

Reviewed on 02/04/2020

I would say 'yes' for TravisCI 2 years ago, but nowadays there are better alternatives to this product, such as Github Actions. My overall experience with TravisCI started quite positive but ended negatively because of the unreliable service they are providing at the moment. If you are running a critical business with 0 tolerance to downtime, TravisCI wouldn't be a wise choice nowadays.

Pros

TravisCI did a great job for many years, across different CI/CD tools, by providing a rich feature set and well-documented functionality.

Cons

Unfortunately, TravisCI is not very reliable. It's having constant downtimes for many months. TravisCI announced the deployment API v2 for a long time ago, but never released the stable version. On the other hand, after the recent acquisition of Idera, many talented developers have left the company. Therefore their development speed and shipment of the important features seem to be delayed.

Samwel
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Travis CI Review

Reviewed on 30/05/2019

I have only used Travis CI on Github repositories so I am not sure how it works with other code hosting providers. In Github, It works like a charm.

Pros

Travis CI is easy to use, it has a nice and easy user interface that gets you started quickly.
Travis CI is well documented which makes onboarding easy.
Some of my associates thought that when you have private repositories, you have to pay to use it. I have been using it with my private repositories. If before you had to pay, now things have changed. It would be nice to help support the product though so that development can go on. The servers also require funds to run.

Cons

Everything is perfect as per now. I have not come across any issues.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Travis CI is the Godfather of CI

Reviewed on 15/01/2019

Pros

For some reason Travis CI seems like the Godfather of CI even though it popped up at the same time as the others. I think this is because they aggressively had a bot add testing to open source projects, and it seemed to work.

Cons

For the price even though Travis CI is great its a little expensive.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

The long-standing king of open source CI/CD... but will it last?

Reviewed on 18/07/2019

Pros

Been using Travis-CI for about 8 years now, and it's always reliably hosted my OSS projects.

Cons

Now with new ownership we've been seeing more downtime. Hope they can keep it afloat!

Denis
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good product, but very expensive

Reviewed on 01/04/2021

We are using Travis CI mostly for our products that have a PHP backend and a Angular PWA application. We are prerendering all pages in our CI process which, for some reason got really slow in the last 12-24 month. I dont know if Travis CI is limiting external HTTP requests (which we rely on to get the content to render). For example a project with 500 subpages takes 30minutes to render. We already checked our Backend endpoints and these are not the limiting factor. Running is locally is has a built time for around 5-6 minutes.

Pros

I like the ease of deployments especially with multi-step-deploys of websites where the backend and frontend should be in sync.

Cons

Only thing I need to complain is the pricing. For a small design and development agency like us the price of the "concurrent job"-based plan is way too expensive while our current credit-based plan (which i'm happy that this exist) is very often exceeded due to the nature of our deployments.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Nice GitHub Integration

Reviewed on 02/07/2021

Pros

I like that I can see the live status from GitHub and that the UI is very simple. I can easily find everything. The console output is colorized (it's not in other CI software I've used).

Cons

Sometimes parts of log output is collapsed, which has hidden an error for me before. It took a while, but my team figured it out.

Kitsune
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Lackluster in features and updates recently, dumping the open source community last year

Reviewed on 28/06/2021

It was pretty much ok, even though the CI infra stayed behind the competition in terms of software used in builder images, and also available features. Perhaps that was the reason the company started struggling at some point in time - with GitHub and GitLab seriously upping the game, and Circle CI having started quite long ago and moving around faster than Travis CI - it was more inertia and a bit of simplicity that kept me around. And then the company simply ghosted its open source users for something like 4 months, stopping the free service (despite previous promises they wouldn't) and saying nothing on what to expect. Needless to say, for CI it was a complete dealbreaker. I went away and never looked back.

Pros

Back when I started, the onboarding was very straightforward, as long as you used GitHub. Fairly reliable for my low-profile usage. Simple and direct user interface.

Cons

It grew worse when the company behind Travis CI got sold; downtimes became more frequent, builder image upgrades didn't really get up to speed - but the worst was to leave an extremely short runway to the free tier for open source users with no prior announcement. That's not so much about the software, it's about the company. Free tier or not, in CI segment you just can't afford such things.

Timothy
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

why is a title required?

Reviewed on 06/07/2021

Pros

Its easy to use by default in new Ember web apps.

Cons

All configuration goes in a single monolithic travis.yml file, and the syntax of this file is very mysterious. Understanding what a particular configuration does is difficult, and its difficult to figure out how to satisfy new requirements.

In contrast, github actions allow for the separate configuration of many different workflows, and offer comparatively much better documentation.

We mostly continue to use travis because we've already figured out how to configure it for our basic needs with a few projects, and our company has already purchased a plan. Its difficult to switch to another system, largely due to company politics.

Patryk
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Recommendation

Reviewed on 01/02/2021

Pros

It's easy to use and configure and also a nice user experience.

Cons

It's expensive in comparison to other solutions

Charlie
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  • Industry: Industrial Automation
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Fair, but unclear

Reviewed on 25/08/2021

Good, but can be

Pros

Travis is the only ci tool that have VT-x enabled!
It's also well known, simple to use.

Cons

Paid compared to github action. At least it could be cool to have come montlhy free credits, for just a few to maintain some OSS project in RUN mode.
Not so configurable: I can't come with my own VM ISO so I'm forced to download all prerequisite package every time for each builds: most of my credits go there...
As I'm part of multiple orgs, it's hard to know which credits are spent where. Also, the authorization mecanism is not that clear: I don't know exactly what travis sees from my github infos.

Jacob
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  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Does not integrate with Github any more

Reviewed on 26/04/2021

Does not work, no documentation of how team permissions are supposed to work.

Pros

At first Travis CI was an easy-to-use way to run the test suite of our Ruby On Rails app when branches were pushed to GitHub. Then it locked me out of accessing the build results and just does not work any more.

Cons

Github integration broke so I can no longer access the service, only 1 developer on my team can access it.

Matthew
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Nice Slack Integrations

Reviewed on 03/05/2022

Pros

I loved integrating Travis into our workflow in Slack. We received notifications from Travis when there are failures in unit tests during the run of our CI pipeline. It appears for us to see and acknowledge. It’s little things like this that keep the team updated in an agile environment.

Cons

Like all CI/CD tools configurations are painful. It is made easy with lots of documentation but once it’s setup it runs and runs well.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure

Reasons for Switching to Travis CI

It was free to us as we were a non profit
Oz
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Travis meets my needs

Reviewed on 29/03/2021

We use to travis to build our API and deploy it. Various websites as well.
Have used the product to integrate with Veracode.

Pros

Travis integrates with github, and slack.

Cons

Sometimes the scripting of yaml files is agonizing.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

An awesome tool to handle autmatic testing with Github

Reviewed on 23/04/2019

overall a great tool for running CI tests automatically.

Pros

Remove the manual work in running tests before merging code.
Also it's scalable to multiple branches and developers.
And it give viability on how the build is broken if any issues arise.

Cons

1. A bit slow comparing to running the tests on local machine.
2. Have a verbose limitation of 4MB.

Erik
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Switching to gh-actions

Reviewed on 08/02/2021

Very pleased with the product

Pros

Works and integrates seemlessly. Love it.

Cons

Pricing model has changed. I understand. We are open source and non-profit so moving away.

Brett
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review

Reviewed on 15/09/2021

Pros

I love the ease of integration with CI workflow for github and heroku

Cons

Slow to pick up hooks from builds on occasion

Ousmane
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Review for travis

Reviewed on 08/07/2021

Pros

I found that it's easy to get started with travis-ci

Cons

Advanced feature are not documented well (or may be I don't find it easily)

David
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

One of the better CI tools out there

Reviewed on 01/09/2020

Pros

Very easy to set up, and out of the box gives me a lot of control over my deployments.

Cons

It's more expensive compared to competing tools for smaller companies.

Francisco
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Satisfied with the service. Keep it up.

Reviewed on 05/03/2021

Pros

Default concurrency and yaml based configuration.
Ease of integration with github and other similar systems.
Vast support of platforms and languages built-in.

Cons

A native slack notification system would be nice :)
Also supporting new Xcode versions earlier would be a plus.