DotCiWhat is DotCi?
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.
DotCi is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Deep Integration with Source Control – for us that’s Github EnterpriseIntegration with Github webhooksFeedback sent to the committer or pusher via Email, Hipchat, Campfire, etc.Setting of commit and pull request statuses on GithubPush button build setupDynamic dependency loading at build runtimeEasy, version controlled build configurationSimple parallelizationCustomizable behavior based on environment variables (e.g. branch name)Docker support!
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DotCi Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DotCi?
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.
GitHub Actions
It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
Travis CI
Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.
