CloudBees Continuous Integration vs. GoCD

If you're running Jenkins in your enterprise and it's in the critical path of your software pipelines, I highly recommend CloudBees Jenkins over the open source version of the product to ensure you've got the customer and technical support you'll need for your Jenkins platform to be successful.

Incentivized

GoCD is easy to set up. So if you just want to get some pipelines up & running quickly, & they're quite stable, or you can have many pipelines for different needs then GoCD is great. Still, if you only want to have a few pipelines, but with the flexibility to run them with different parameters dynamically, then Jenkins is better.

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• Customer Support
• Solutions engineering

Incentivized

• Pipeline-as-Code works really well. All our pipelines are defined in yml files, which are checked into SCM.
• The ability to link multiple pipelines together is really cool. Later pipelines can declare a dependency to pick up the build artifacts of earlier ones.
• Agents definition is really great. We can define multiple different kinds of environments to best suit our diverse build systems.

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• File or Workspace Management
• Agent configurations at master level
• Better Support for issues in product

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• UI can be improved
• Location for settings can be re-arranged
• API for setting up pipeline

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Support seems very unreachable from my experience. They handle cases if developers are facing issues, support seems to be very limited. It's not like other tools in a market where every mail is being taken priority and responses are sent. We see a lack in this particular aspect when it comes to CloudBees Jenkins Platform.

Incentivized

Easy to lean, use, highly customizable pipelines, works well for version control, etc. Example Digital.ai gives all those features which can be done in Jenkins like builds, deployment, release management, etc. But, it requires universal templates to be created which are difficult to maintain and readable like groovy pipelines in Jenkins.

Incentivized

I prefer using GoCD compared to Jenkins. The UI makes sense, I like the simplicity to hit the 'Play' button for a straightforward deployment of the 'Play +' if you need to override some settings when deploying whereas Jenkins, you have the whole page for each pipeline. The environment makes sense but can often confuse the user while GoCD simply has a drop-down to select your environment.

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• Positive - Handles number of requests
• Positive - Customizations of pipelines helps integrate many type of frameworks
• Negative - Cache management on agents for dependencies downloaded
• Positive - credential management helps reduce configurations to be done for each project job at manual level

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• ROI has been good since it's open source
• Settings.xml need to be backed up periodically. It contains all the settings for your pipelines! We accidentally deleted before and we have to restore and re-create several missing pipelines
• More straight forward use of API and allows filtering e.g., pull all pipelines triggered after this date

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