What replacements can be considered for VisualBuild?

Question

Continuous Integration

Hello.
At the moment, our company uses VisualBuild from Kinook Software, the product is quite old and clumsy

Now VIsualBuild performs the following tasks:
1. Starting and stopping the necessary virtual machines and their snapshots (hyper-v)
2. Building the product through MSbuild
3. Running tests through Nunit

B Than problems:
Configuration files are not stored centrally, but in heaps of different repositories.
Tied to the Windows infrastructure (until recently there were no problems)
Difficulty in debugging crashes

What I would like:
1. Support for Windows and Linux out of the box. Windows is more relevant in this case. all infrastructure mostly on Windows machines
2. Readable scripts

What we consider:
1. Ansible, no one has worked with it before
2. Write scripts in python

I will be glad for any links to compare reviews of similar products

Answer 1

I would look at the combination
- Vagrant with Hyper-V provider
- Azure DevOps Server ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_DevOps_Server)

Answer 2

Team city. Supports Windows and Linux for .Net assemblies, logs stdout / stderr steps to the server, all build configurations are declarative in Kotlin and can be stored along with the code. The free version has a maximum limit of 3 assembly agents and 100 build configurations, the paid version removes the limit on the number of configs and pays only for agents (the first year - discounts are made depending on the number, for the second - $150 per agent), all other features are the same .