Blue Ocean vs DotCi: What are the differences?

Blue Ocean: A reboot of the Jenkins CI/CD User Experience. 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; DotCi: Jenkins plugin with GitHub and Docker integration. 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.

Blue Ocean and DotCi can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.

Some of the features offered by Blue Ocean are:

• 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.

On the other hand, DotCi provides the following key 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.

Blue Ocean and DotCi are both open source tools. It seems that Blue Ocean with 2.49K GitHub stars and 435 forks on GitHub has more adoption than DotCi with 505 GitHub stars and 65 GitHub forks.