- Buildkite is a platform for running fast, secure, and scalable continuous integration pipelines on your own infrastructure
- The buildkite agent is a small, reliable and cross-platform build runner that makes it easy to run automated builds on your own infrastructure. Its main responsibilities are polling buildkite.com for work, running build jobs, reporting back the status code and output log of the job, and uploading the job's artifacts.
- In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project. Buildkite and Jenkins can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.