| > Concourse looks good on the surface but it's really not that great. I've used teamcity, jenkins, gocd, circleci, concourse, and travisci. For multi-project systems, concourse is king. (I like travisci for by-itself, non-system projects) > The UI is clunky. What? You just said the UI looks good... It's simple and clean; everything is async javascript (no page loads). > The abstraction layer is too low and leads to a lot of repeated YAML. Which leads to YAML programming. Which is an intentional choice. If you don't like YAML, use one of the MANY yaml abstraction layers of your choice... > There are simple scenarios like deployment rollbacks who are hard to do. First of all, a CI system shouldn't be your answer to rollbacks. Your deployment system should handle that. Secondly, assuming your deployment system can do rollbacks, concourse has on-fail jobs that can trigger rollbacks just fine. > For some reason they decided to develop their own container engine which leads to all sorts of trouble and maintenance issue. It's generally slow and we had 100% CPU usage when the worker was doing almost nothing. garden is used because cloudfoundry builds it. It is not slow... it is a light layer on top of runc (as opposed to docker which is a rather heavy layer on top of runc). You should pretty much never have to care about it, and in 3 years of using concourse I haven't had to - and we have some pretty gnarly large pipelines. Also I call rubbish on your 100% CPU. I have two workers t2.xlarge workers running 22 and 30 containers (like, right NOW) and neither is above 10% CPU (which, actually, I should make those a lot smaller). Don't run workers on a potato and you'll be fine. > Gitlab CI is much better. Or even Jenkins is better. Ohhh you're trolling. |
I meant that when just looking at the website, Concourse looks good in terms of what it has to offer. For example it offers proper build pipelines, something that is lacking in most other CIs.
Maybe it's clean to you, I found that our developers where generally confused by how the releases were working.
> Which is an intentional choice. If you don't like YAML, use one of the MANY yaml abstraction layers of your choice...
I don't mind YAML too much but adding a templating language on top is generally clunky. Gitlab CI also uses YAML, can also build pipelines and doesn't require to generate the YAML.
> Also I call rubbish on your 100% CPU.
It might have been due to a misconfiguration (we were using c4.4xlarge). I bet that you have deployed Concourse using BOSH, the only truly tested deployment method.