| I'm late to the party. Concourse is difficult to come to from other CI tools. A little more aloof. There have been real, serious implementation difficulties. But I kinda love it, because it's a handful of simple ideas that unlock incredible power. It goes beyond "build and test each commit" to becoming a full project automation tool, a software manufacturing robot. When I talk to people about Concourse, I tell them: your pipeline and your tasks are production code. Keep the discipline, care and engineering practices that you bring to the apps and services you create. The problem is that most of the deep tribal knowledge about how to get started and how to best apply it is locked up inside a handful of organisations, most notably Pivotal. I had been working on a video series which was meant to walk through both the concrete business of building pipelines, as well as the concepts of how best to do so. Unfortunately visa conditions got in the way and I have abandoned that effort. Interested persons are welcome to email me for links to the first 4 episodes that I made, but be aware that it stops even more suddenly than Firefly. Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. |