Comment by genericpenguin

I've been a heavy Jenkins user for the last three years and I can completely see where you (and Concourse team) are coming from. The page comparing Jenkins and Concourse hits all my right buttons (complexity in build specification, minimal pipeline, etc) but I find that having to BOSH the hell out of a new system (pun intended) just to get CI running seems like a PITA to me (it's the one thing preventing me from recommending it as a solution atm). Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like a lot of complexity is added to the deployment/worker management system that is pretty much a requirement if you want slaves external to the master. Is there a way to not have to use BOSH (BOSH Lite still tries to shoehorn things I don't want/need) to run Concourse builds? We use a combination of VMWare/KVM VMs, LXC and Docker containers for our builds and we have our own working deployment system (Puppet manages all our state successfully for VMs and LXC containers) which I would like to integrate with Concourse. I really hope I'm missing something because what I saw when I tried out Concourse for a week, made me swoon.