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Buildbot vs Concourse: What are the differences?
Developers describe Buildbot as "Python-based continuous integration testing framework". BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. On the other hand, Concourse is detailed as "Pipeline-based CI system written in Go". Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.
Buildbot and Concourse can be categorized as "Continuous Integration" tools.
"Highly configurable builds" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Buildbot, while over 8 developers mention "Real pipelines" as the leading cause for choosing Concourse.
Buildbot and Concourse are both open source tools. Buildbot with 3.98K GitHub stars and 1.36K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Concourse with 3.92K GitHub stars and 472 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Concourse has a broader approval, being mentioned in 18 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Buildbot, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
I'm planning to setup complete CD-CD setup for spark and python application which we are going to deploy in aws lambda and EMR Cluster. Which tool would be best one to choose. Since my company is trying to adopt to concourse i would like to understand what are the lack of capabilities concourse have . Thanks in advance !
I would definetly recommend Concourse to you, as it is one of the most advanced modern methods of making CI/CD while Jenkins is an old monolithic dinosaur. Concourse itself is cloudnative and containerbased which helps you to build simple, high-performance and scalable CI/CD pipelines. In my opinion, the only lack of skills you have with Concourse is your own knowledge of how to build pipelines and automate things. Technincally there is no lack, i would even say you can extend it way more easily. But as a Con it is more easy to interact with Jenkins if you are only used to UIs. Concourse needs someone which is capable of using CLIs.
Pros of Buildbot
- Highly configurable builds9
- Hosted internally5
- Beautiful waterfall5
- Free open source4
- Python3
- No external web fonts by default1
Pros of Concourse
- Real pipelines16
- Containerised builds10
- Flexible engine9
- Fast6
- Open source4
- No Snowflakes3
- Simple configuration management3
- You have to do everything2
- Fancy Visualization1
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Cons of Buildbot
Cons of Concourse
- Fail forward instead of rollback pattern2
