DotCi vs GoCD: What are the differences?

Developers describe DotCi as "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. On the other hand, GoCD is detailed as "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.

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

Some of the features offered by DotCi are:

• 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.

On the other hand, GoCD 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

DotCi and GoCD are both open source tools. GoCD with 5.07K GitHub stars and 796 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than DotCi with 505 GitHub stars and 65 GitHub forks.