I know everyone hates on Jenkins these days, but (at least for the workloads I am building) Concourse feels like a toy.
My issues:
- everything has to be in a docker container (not all things can run in garden)
- Just trying to find logs is a pain, and getting the UI to show a full log output is basically impossible
- each install of concourse may need an entirely different version of fly
- There was no way of retriggering a CI run on a single PR (without force pushing to the branch, which removes Github reviews)
Jenkins + Jenkinsfiles + Pipelines provides all of the good bits of Concourse, with none of the Pivitol enforced workflow + tools.
I get why CloudFoundry uses Concourse - the build process is so arcane that you basically need to run the full CI locally, but I really do not get the hype for other projects.
My issues:
- everything has to be in a docker container (not all things can run in garden)
- Just trying to find logs is a pain, and getting the UI to show a full log output is basically impossible
- each install of concourse may need an entirely different version of fly
- There was no way of retriggering a CI run on a single PR (without force pushing to the branch, which removes Github reviews)
Jenkins + Jenkinsfiles + Pipelines provides all of the good bits of Concourse, with none of the Pivitol enforced workflow + tools.
I get why CloudFoundry uses Concourse - the build process is so arcane that you basically need to run the full CI locally, but I really do not get the hype for other projects.