Concourse CI Reviews & Product Details

Concourse is the best Continuous Integration pipeline which integrates GitLab with all the other software. Whatever changes we make to any code, it passes through Concourse and gets applied to the linked app. These are the features that make Concourse stand out from its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall, I just love Concourse, but sometimes I feel that the Concourse UI could be improved to make it more interactive for users. It should be more colorful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ability to link directly to a specific line of the build log – we use this at my company frequently to share pointers to some test failure or build problem on Slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the lack of ability to use the browser’s Back button (history navigation) in Concourse UI in some circumstances. I also dislike the steep learning curve, as the UI offers very little in terms of discoverability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything runs in containers, ensuring a clean environment on every run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like that you can't have branching (fanning in/out) in pipelines based on some condition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy Integration with different types of tools like Artifactory, venafi, all cloud providers etc.

- Can be integrated with existing Jenkins tool

- Lot of customizations can be done as it give control over the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- It has a good amount of learning curve

- Sometimes if pipelines get stuck, they remain stuck forever and need to manually trigger the check resource button Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We leverage concourse for everything. Building images, deploying, testing; works like a charm. The UI is simple, has everything you need and looks nice. You do all configurations using a CLI, which is powerful and gets the job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is not really beginner-friendly and there is a steep learning curve. Especially the flow needs some attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fantastic UI to view current status and YAML-based automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User input value is impossible like Jenkins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Concourse CI has one of the easiest to learn interfaces. It is also simple to use, is an open-source product with both community support and easily accessible documentations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Concourse is not a flexible tool in terms of flow such as the need of having different conditions for a pipeline. It is restricted in terms of how customizable certain aspects of the pipeline is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Narrow scope, container orientation, declarative language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Conditional flow is lacking (conditional execution of tasks, jobs, etc.) and UI could expose more information about past runs (details selected by pipeline developer for publication) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the idea of the pipeline as a code, run jobs in docker containers and out of the box git plugin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Concourse cons are: limited plugin libs, poor support, complex admin ops and not 100 reliable/stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how fast you can build new pipeline for any project. Docker containers that are designed specifically to suit your application. Integration with Microsoft Team makes it really great. as you can track build status in Microsoft teams. and last but not least the time it takes to build is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While building complex pipelines, its not easy to keep your code in multiple yml files and then include in main file without committing. This is the major issue I faced, as I have to commit small changes every time before I can test. another problem is that its hard to find perfect docker for your application if you are using multiple libraries. but for basic apps its really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.