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Blue Ocean

A reboot of the Jenkins CI/CD User Experience
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What is Blue Ocean?

Designed from the ground up for Jenkins Pipeline and compatible with Freestyle jobs, Blue Ocean reduces clutter and increases clarity for every member of your team.
Blue Ocean is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.
Blue Ocean is an open source tool with 2.9K GitHub stars and 521 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Blue Ocean's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Blue Ocean?

Companies
7 companies reportedly use Blue Ocean in their tech stacks, including IWB, Wbot, and CityLiv.

Developers
83 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Blue Ocean.

Blue Ocean Integrations

Pros of Blue Ocean
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Blue Ocean's Features

  • Sophisticated visualizations of CD pipelines, allowing for fast and intuitive comprehension of software pipeline status.
  • Pipeline editor (In Development) that makes automating CD pipelines approachable by guiding the user through an intuitive and visual process to create a pipeline.
  • Personalization of the Jenkins UI to suit the role-based needs of each member of the DevOps team.
  • Pinpoint precision when intervention is needed and/or issues arise. The Blue Ocean UI shows where in the pipeline attention is needed, facilitating exception handling and increasing productivity.
  • Native integration for branch and pull requests enables maximum developer productivity when collaborating on code with others in GitHub and Bitbucket.

Blue Ocean Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Blue Ocean?
Red
It is both an imperative and functional programming language. Its syntax and general usage overlaps that of the interpreted Rebol language.
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
Jenkins X
Jenkins X is a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
Travis CI
Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.
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Blue Ocean's Followers
166 developers follow Blue Ocean to keep up with related blogs and decisions.