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Concourse vs Screwdriver: What are the differences?

What is Concourse? 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.

What is Screwdriver? Yahoo's Continuous Delivery Build System for Dynamic Infrastructure. Screwdriver is an open source build platform designed for Continuous Delivery.

Concourse and Screwdriver belong to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.

"Real pipelines" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Concourse, while over 2 developers mention "Free open source" as the leading cause for choosing Screwdriver.

Concourse and Screwdriver are both open source tools. Concourse with 3.99K GitHub stars and 482 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Screwdriver with 702 GitHub stars and 107 GitHub forks.

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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 !

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Maxi Krone
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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.

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Pros of Concourse
Pros of Screwdriver
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    Real pipelines
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    Containerised builds
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    Flexible engine
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    Fast
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    Open source
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    No Snowflakes
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    Simple configuration management
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    You have to do everything
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    Fancy Visualization
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    Free open source

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Cons of Concourse
Cons of Screwdriver
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    Fail forward instead of rollback pattern
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    What 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.

    What is Screwdriver?

    It is a self-contained, pluggable service to help you build, test, and continuously deliver software using the latest containerization technologies.

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    What are some alternatives to Concourse and Screwdriver?
    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.
    CircleCI
    Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.
    Spinnaker
    Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers.
    TeamCity
    TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.
    GitLab CI
    GitLab offers a continuous integration service. If you add a .gitlab-ci.yml file to the root directory of your repository, and configure your GitLab project to use a Runner, then each merge request or push triggers your CI pipeline.
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