Whenever I start a new software project I like to build out a CI/CD process. Typically, I would spin up Jenkins, SonarQube, OWASP Zap and other ancillary tools depending on the type of development.

But lately, I've realized what a headache dealing with managing all of this is and I end up spending less time being productive and more time messing with these tools.

I've been playing with various hosted CI/CD systems but most of them seem to be too simplistic, too expensive, or both.

I really like the idea of GitLab-CI and their auto-devops. My main issue is that as far as I can tell, the deployments require Kubernetes. And while I am the biggest K8s fanboy for the corporate world, for a smaller project I think it is way overkill.

CodeShip looks like a strong contender with being able to build out docker-compose like sets of containers to use in your pipelines. I haven't played around with this one enough to see if you're able to interact between containers (i.e. scan the resulting image after a docker build).

Drone.io looks promising, but it is self-hosted and I'd really rather a hosted solution.

I'm curious what other people are doing for their own projects.