Appveyor vs Concourse

Overview

Appveyor

Stacks123

Followers131

Votes94

Concourse

Stacks254

Followers393

Votes54

GitHub Stars7.6K

Forks870

Appveyor vs Concourse: What are the differences?

Appveyor: Continuous Integration and Deployment service for busy Windows developers. AppVeyor aims to give powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment tools to every .NET developer without the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own build server; Concourse: Pipeline-based CI system written in Go. Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.

Appveyor and Concourse belong to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.

"Github integration" is the primary reason why developers consider Appveyor over the competitors, whereas "Real pipelines" was stated as the key factor in picking Concourse.

Concourse is an open source tool with 3.99K GitHub stars and 482 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Concourse's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Concourse has a broader approval, being mentioned in 18 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Appveyor, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

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Advice on Appveyor, Concourse

veera

Jan 27, 2020

Needs advice

I'm planning to setup complete CD-CD setup for spark and python application which we are going to deploy in aws lambda and EMR Cluster. Which tool would be best one to choose. Since my company is trying to adopt to concourse i would like to understand what are the lack of capabilities concourse have . Thanks in advance !

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Detailed Comparison

Appveyor	Concourse
AppVeyor aims to give powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment tools to every .NET developer without the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own build server.	Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.
Scriptless, repetitive, one-click deployment of build artifacts to multiple environments;YAML configuration;Backed by Windows Azure platform;Built-in NuGet feeds with project artifacts;Build artifacts are stored in a highly-durable Geo-redundant cloud storage;	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 7.6K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 870
Stacks 123	Stacks 254
Followers 131	Followers 393
Votes 94	Votes 54
Pros & Cons
Pros 20 Github integration 18 Simple, reliable & powerful 12 Hosted 11 YML-based configuration 10 Nuget support Cons 1 Poor documentation 1 Complex user interface	Pros 16 Real pipelines 10 Containerised builds 9 Flexible engine 6 Fast 4 Open source Cons 2 Fail forward instead of rollback pattern
Integrations
GitHub Bitbucket .NET	No integrations available

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