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title: "Build Server"
date: "2021-02-18T03:38:19+00:00"
url: "https://checkmarx.com/glossary/build-server/"
description: "Bolster Your Build Server Security: A Comprehensive Glossary of Best Practices and Tools"
---

# Build Server

A build server is a distinct concept to a Continuous Integration (CI) server. The CI server exists to build your projects when changes are made. By contrast a Build server exists to build the project (typically a release, against a tagged revision) on a clean environment. It ensures that no developer hacks, tweaks, unapproved config/artifact versions or uncommitted code makes it into the released code.