Buildkite Agent
Self-hosted CI/CD agent for your own infrastructure
The Buildkite Agent is an open-source build runner that executes pipeline jobs on your own machines while Buildkite coordinates orchestration. It lets teams keep build infrastructure private and scalable.
Key features
- Runs builds on your own hardware
- Cross-platform agent
- Parallel job execution
- Artifact handling
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (1k GitHub stars)
- Written in Go
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