Concourse
Vijay Kumar Reddy Tamalampudi
Apr 15, 2022
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CommentsWhat is Concourse?
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.
Concourse is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.
Concourse Pros & Cons
Pros of Concourse
- ✓Real pipelines
- ✓Containerised builds
- ✓Flexible engine
- ✓Fast
- ✓Open source
- ✓No Snowflakes
- ✓Simple configuration management
- ✓You have to do everything
- ✓Fancy Visualization
Cons of Concourse
- ✗Fail forward instead of rollback pattern
Concourse Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Concourse?
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.
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.
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.
