What is DotCi?
DotCi is a Jenkins plugin created by Groupon that makes job management easy with built-in GitHub integration, push-button job creation, and YAML powered build configuration and customization. It comes prepackaged with Docker support as well, which means bootstrapping a new build environment from scratch can take as little as 15 minutes. DotCi has been a critical tool for Groupon internally for managing build and release pipelines for the wide variety of technologies in their SOA landscape.
DotCi is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.
DotCi is an open source tool with 499 GitHub stars and 73 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to DotCi's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses DotCi?
DotCi's Features
- Deep Integration with Source Control – for us that’s Github Enterprise
- Integration with Github webhooks
- Feedback sent to the committer or pusher via Email, Hipchat, Campfire, etc.
- Setting of commit and pull request statuses on Github
- Push button build setup
- Dynamic dependency loading at build runtime
- Easy, version controlled build configuration
- Simple parallelization
- Customizable behavior based on environment variables (e.g. branch name)
- Docker support!
DotCi Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DotCi?
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.