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by mewse 3739 days ago
And I just want to add.. I really like Concourse. I'd love to use it instead of Jenkins.

But at the moment, I haven't been able to get it to work, apart from in a vagrant box running an old version of the software, which I can't deploy to a real server, and to which I can't attach workers. Which, from a brass-tacks point of view, means that I haven't be able to get it to work at all.

I'd be thrilled if you can make it less painful to install on a proper server. I totally would jump on board in a heartbeat. But I've already spent a couple days trying to make it work, and I just can't afford to throw more of my time at it right now, particularly since I already have a fully functional (albeit somewhat unpleasant and occasionally unreliable) Jenkins install, which only took me 20 minutes to set up and configure.

I'd be very interested in taking another look if and when the whole install process has been streamlined somewhat! There's lots of promise here; I just can't get into it.

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Speaking as a one-eyed Concourse fan, I think your remarks are fair and reasonable. My personal hope is that the binary version will be picked up by downstream channels (Homebrew, linux distros etc), which will simplify the experience for 99% of users.
Or a simple 'docker run'