Doppler enables developers and DevSecOp teams to keep their secrets and app configuration in sync and secure across devices, environments, and team members. It provides an encrypted source of truth that enables users to organize secrets across projects and environments.
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GoCD
Score 8.0 out of 10
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GoCD, from ThoughtWorks in Chicago, is an application lifecycle management and development tool.
Doppler is a really good service for SecretOps, it handles, syncs, and integrates with APIs & cloud platforms. Most DevOps tasks can be optimized and improved at a greater rate. It can integrate dashboards, APIs & secrets with any cloud or on-premise environment. It can handle environment variables, API keys, DB URLs, Secrets, Ports, Private keys, or Public Keys which makes CI/CD Integration much easier. Applications can be monitored and developed easier than before which make developers life easier.
GoCD is easy to set up. So if you just want to get some pipelines up & running quickly, & they're quite stable, or you can have many pipelines for different needs then GoCD is great. Still, if you only want to have a few pipelines, but with the flexibility to run them with different parameters dynamically, then Jenkins is better.
Pipeline-as-Code works really well. All our pipelines are defined in yml files, which are checked into SCM.
The ability to link multiple pipelines together is really cool. Later pipelines can declare a dependency to pick up the build artifacts of earlier ones.
Agents definition is really great. We can define multiple different kinds of environments to best suit our diverse build systems.
The "sharing secrets" issue has mostly been resolved for us by Doppler, especially for local development. In addition to using it with GitHub Actions for builds, we also use it locally, in K8s, across AWS (primarily via SSM integration), and across other platforms.
I prefer using GoCD compared to Jenkins. The UI makes sense, I like the simplicity to hit the 'Play' button for a straightforward deployment of the 'Play +' if you need to override some settings when deploying whereas Jenkins, you have the whole page for each pipeline. The environment makes sense but can often confuse the user while GoCD simply has a drop-down to select your environment.
Settings.xml need to be backed up periodically. It contains all the settings for your pipelines! We accidentally deleted before and we have to restore and re-create several missing pipelines
More straight forward use of API and allows filtering e.g., pull all pipelines triggered after this date
