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Concourse vs Test Kitchen: What are the differences?
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; Test Kitchen: Integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms. Test Kitchen has a static, declarative configuration in a .kitchen.yml file at the root of your project. It is designed to execute isolated code run in pristine environments ensuring that no prior state exists. A plugin architecture gives you the freedom to run your code on any cloud, virtualization, or bare metal resources and allows you to write acceptance criteria in whatever framework you desire.
Concourse and Test Kitchen belong to "Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack.
"Real pipelines" is the primary reason why developers consider Concourse over the competitors, whereas "Automated testing" was stated as the key factor in picking Test Kitchen.
Concourse and Test Kitchen are both open source tools. It seems that Concourse with 3.99K GitHub stars and 482 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Test Kitchen with 1.62K GitHub stars and 543 GitHub forks.
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 Concourse
- Real pipelines16
- Containerised builds10
- Flexible engine9
- Fast6
- Open source4
- No Snowflakes3
- Simple configuration management3
- You have to do everything2
- Fancy Visualization1
Pros of Test Kitchen
- Automated testing6
- Detect bugs in cook books4
- Integrates well with vagrant2
- Can containerise tests in Docker2
- Integrates well with puppet1
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Cons of Concourse
- Fail forward instead of rollback pattern2
