Docker vs Go.CD

Docker vs Go.CD: What are the differences?

What is Docker? Enterprise Container Platform for High-Velocity Innovation. 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.

What is Go.CD? Open source continuous delivery tool allows for advanced workflow modeling and dependencies management. GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers business a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility.

Docker belongs to "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" category of the tech stack, while Go.CD can be primarily classified under "Continuous Integration".

Some of the features offered by Docker are:

• Integrated developer tools
• open, portable images
• shareable, reusable apps

On the other hand, Go.CD provides the following key features:

• Model complex workflows with dependency management and parallel execution
• Easy to pass once-built binaries between stages
• Visibility into your end-to-end workflow. Track a change from commit to deploy at a glance

"Rapid integration and build up" is the primary reason why developers consider Docker over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Go.CD.

Docker and Go.CD are both open source tools. It seems that Docker with 54K GitHub stars and 15.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Go.CD with 5.02K GitHub stars and 791 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Docker has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3524 company stacks & 3443 developers stacks; compared to Go.CD, which is listed in 28 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.