#1 most frequent
United States of America
50.0%212 installations of 424
What is GoCD?
GoCD, from ThoughtWorks in Chicago, is an application lifecycle management and development tool.
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Who Buys & Uses GoCD
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8.0%34 installations of 424
#3 most frequent
Germany
4.7%20 installations of 424
CI/CD is the way!
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- I miss the ability to have custom build parameters on GUI. So, all the changes even the smallest ones have to be checked into SCM.
- If there's an ability to define the priority of the pipelines, that would be great. Some build environments only have a couple of agents, so there are times that builds have to wait for quite a long time.
- I wish that I can create a new view for a group. Currently, if I have a view for group A, then more pipelines are added to that group, I have to edit the view to manually add the new pipelines.
Most Important Features
- Pipeline-as-Code
- Automatic triggers
- Clean & clear GUI
Return on Investment
- Automated CI/CD improves quality tremendously
- People can spend time on more interesting activities instead of repeated tasks
- Peace-of-mind when the changes are well-tested multiple times
Alternatives Considered
Jenkins
Other Software Used
IntelliJ IDEA, Bitbucket, Atlassian Confluence
No Frills Continous Integration and Delivery Solution
Pros
- Easy Setup for deployment pipeline
- Environment Variables for each step
- Supports both Windows and Linux agent
- Highly customizable
Cons
- UI can be improved
- Location for settings can be re-arranged
- API for setting up pipeline
Return on Investment
- ROI has been good since it's open source
- 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
Alternatives Considered
Jenkins
Other Software Used
JIRA Software, Atlassian Confluence, Slack