earthly
The premium Open Source alternative to CircleCI
🎯 Best for:Teams struggling with 'it works on my machine' build issues.
What is earthly?
A build automation framework that executes builds in isolated containers to ensure reproducibility across local and CI environments. It combines the declarative syntax of Dockerfiles with the task-based logic of Makefiles.
Tech Stack
GoDevOps & CI/CD
Why earthly?
- • Parallel execution by default
- • Language agnostic
- • Built-in caching logic
Limitations
- • Requires Docker/Buildkit
- • Learning new syntax
- • Large image sizes
3/5/2026
Last Update
450
Forks
737
Issues
MPL-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on CircleCI)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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