We're using Concourse extensively at HelloFresh (>130 devs). It's not without its quirks, but I've little to complain about so far, except perhaps the polish of the UI.
Concourse CI
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Re: Concourse CI
#32Mostly off-topic but I've been looking for more than a CI for some quite time, more on the CD side. How are you guys handling some of these cases? Bonus points for hosted options. - Truly a pipeline based stages. No messing around with git branches/tags for each environment release. - Ability to combine multiple builds together. - Build dependencies. Ability to trigger project-B build when project-A build succeeds. (…
Have you looked at Go.CD - https://www.gocd.org/
Re: Concourse CI
#33I've been eyeing Concourse and Go.CD over Jenkins for a while. The main criticism I saw on Jenkins and Go.CD vs. Concourse was that Jenkins Pipelines aren't first class and that it's easier to export configuration(in that regard Concourse > Go.CD > Jenkins). On the other hand Jenkins and Go.CD supports extensions, which Concourse touts as a feature. I also want the CI builds to create my base boxes with packer in mul…
How are Pipelines not first class in Jenkins? Pipelines are provided in the default installation and they are the first thing we talk about in the docs https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/tour/hello-world/
Disclosure: I work on Jenkins.
Re: Concourse CI
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I issue valid TLS certs for my internal servers using letsencrypt DNS challenge (there is a nice cloudflare hook for dehydrated that I use). Runs on cron, haven't had to worry about it once I set it up. (Haven't tried with concourse, but don't think that would be a problem)
Do you worry about your internal names being exposed via Certificate Transparency?
Not much.
Re: Concourse CI
#35I hadn't heard of this, it looks nice! Would I be far off if I'd say that Concourse is an open source clone of Travis CI and CircleCI? Any strong pluses of the SaaS offerings over Concourse I should know about?
Re: Concourse CI
#36I hadn't heard of this, it looks nice! Would I be far off if I'd say that Concourse is an open source clone of Travis CI and CircleCI? Any strong pluses of the SaaS offerings over Concourse I should know about?
Concourse is developed independently, it is focused more on multi project workflows.
Re: Concourse CI
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool to hear you selected GitLab. We recently added multi project pipeline visualization. That was partially inspired by concourse CI. Is there anything else you would like to see?
Interesting you should mention that. Right around the time you implemented multi-project pipeline visualization, we built a bot that listens for GitLab build completion events, hits the (undocumented /unsupported) internal GitLab global code search ElasticSearch index, finds downstream dependencies of the completed build (as declared in setup.py/package.json), and triggers their builds as well.. Taking full advantage…
Cool! I think we're building this into GitLab itself. I'll ask the CI CD team to comment.
Re: Concourse CI
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Re: Concourse CI
#39Mostly off-topic but I've been looking for more than a CI for some quite time, more on the CD side. How are you guys handling some of these cases? Bonus points for hosted options. - Truly a pipeline based stages. No messing around with git branches/tags for each environment release. - Ability to combine multiple builds together. - Build dependencies. Ability to trigger project-B build when project-A build succeeds. (…
https://buildkite.com has all those features, and very easy to work with.
It's a hybrid hosted model -you supply your own workers (they provide a CFN template to make that part easy), everything else (e.g. web UI/API) is hosted
Re: Concourse CI
#40We're using Concourse extensively at HelloFresh (>130 devs). It's not without its quirks, but I've little to complain about so far, except perhaps the polish of the UI.
Cool - did you folks know about the Concourse London User Group? The last two have been held just around the corner from you: https://www.meetup.com/Concourse-London-User-Group/