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Azure DevOps vs Concourse: What are the differences?
Developers describe Azure DevOps as "Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software". Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support. On the other hand, Concourse is detailed as "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.
Azure DevOps and Concourse are primarily classified as "Project Management" and "Continuous Integration" tools respectively.
"Complete and powerful" is the primary reason why developers consider Azure DevOps over the competitors, whereas "Real pipelines" was stated as the key factor in picking Concourse.
Concourse is an open source tool with 4K GitHub stars and 482 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Concourse's open source repository on GitHub.
Schlumberger, Poq, and simplement-e are some of the popular companies that use Azure DevOps, whereas Concourse is used by DigitalOcean, Starbucks, and HelloFresh. Azure DevOps has a broader approval, being mentioned in 79 company stacks & 68 developers stacks; compared to Concourse, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.
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 !
I would definetly recommend Concourse to you, as it is one of the most advanced modern methods of making CI/CD while Jenkins is an old monolithic dinosaur. Concourse itself is cloudnative and containerbased which helps you to build simple, high-performance and scalable CI/CD pipelines. In my opinion, the only lack of skills you have with Concourse is your own knowledge of how to build pipelines and automate things. Technincally there is no lack, i would even say you can extend it way more easily. But as a Con it is more easy to interact with Jenkins if you are only used to UIs. Concourse needs someone which is capable of using CLIs.
Pros of Azure DevOps
- Complete and powerful56
- Huge extension ecosystem32
- Azure integration27
- Flexible and powerful26
- One Stop Shop For Build server, Project Mgt, CDCI26
- Everything I need. Simple and intuitive UI15
- Support Open Source13
- Integrations8
- GitHub Integration7
- One 4 all6
- Cost free for Stakeholders6
- Project Mgmt Features6
- Crap5
- Runs in the cloud5
- Agent On-Premise(Linux - Windows)3
- Aws integration2
- Link Test Cases to Stories2
- Jenkins Integration2
- GCP Integration1
Pros of Concourse
- Real pipelines16
- Containerised builds10
- Flexible engine9
- Fast6
- Open source4
- No Snowflakes3
- Simple configuration management3
- You have to do everything2
- Fancy Visualization1
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Cons of Azure DevOps
- Still dependant on C# for agents8
- Many in devops disregard MS altogether5
- Capacity across cross functional teams not visibile4
- Not a requirements management tool4
- Half Baked4
- Jack of all trades, master of none3
- Poor Jenkins integration3
- Tedious for test plan/case creation2
Cons of Concourse
- Fail forward instead of rollback pattern2
