Concourse Reviews

Concourse Description

Concourse is an open-source continuous-thing-doer. Concourse is based on the basic mechanics of tasks and resources. It offers a general approach for automation that is great for CI/CD. A Concourse pipeline works in the same way as a continuous, distributed Makefile. Each job has a buildplan that outlines the job's input resources as well as what to do with them when they change. The web UI allows you to visualize your pipeline. It takes only one click to go from a failed job to see why it failed. The visualization gives you a "gut check" feedback loop. If it looks wrong, it probably has. Configuring passed constraints can make jobs depend on each other. The resultant chain of jobs and resources is a dependency diagram that propels your project forward from source code to production. Fly CLI is used for all configuration and administration. Fly set-pipeline pushes the configuration up to Concourse. Once the file looks good, you can check it in to source control.