# Concourse CI Reviews **Vendor:** Concourse CI **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Concourse CI Concourse CI is a CI/CD tool which enables builds that run in containers. ## Concourse CI Reviews ### 1. Best Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sakshi J. | Django Development intern, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** Concourse is the best Continuous Integration pileline which integrates the gitlab with all the other softwares. Whatever changes we make to any code it passes by the concourse and get changed to linked app. These are the features which makes concourse best from its competitors. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** All over I just love concourse, sometimes I feel that concourse UI can be improved to make it feel more interactive for users usjng it . It should be more colorful **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using concourse CI for integrating gitlab with bigquery, composer . Whatever code changes we make in bigquery are passes by the concourse and get changes in the respective applications. For example we commit a google bigquery table on concourse , it passes thourhh concourse pipeline and table gets created in bigquery UI. Similarly we create a google composer dag code in gitlab, it passes through concourse and the changes are reflected in composer UI. ### 2. Fully customizable pipelines, no-frills UI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** 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. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** I dislike the lack of ability to use the brower’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. **Recommendations to others considering Concourse CI:** Watch a few videos released by Hashicorp to learn about installing, setting up, and using Concourse. **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reproducible, rerunnable builds, running on our own secure cloud infrastructure. We use Concourse for everything, both application code and terraform configuration. ### 3. Expressive, versatile, and safe, remaining intuitive as the complexity of your project grows. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudhakar K. | Senior Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** Everything runs in containers, ensuring a clean environment on every run. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** I don't like that you can't have branching (fanning in/out) in pipelines based on some condition **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Jobs can depend on other jobs by configuring passed constraints. The resulting chain of jobs and resources is a dependency graph that continuously pushes your project forward, from source code to production. ### 4. A good tool for all your CI/CD needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sai r. | AWS DevOps, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** - 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 **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** - It has good amount learning curve - Some times if pipelines get stuck it stuck for forever and need to manually trigger check resource button **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a good tool we used for deployment to AWS and along with different artifact checks to meet the compliance before deploying the artifact to servers ### 5. Pretty solid CI solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** 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. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** The documentation is not really beginner-friendly and there is a steep learning curve. Especially the flow needs some attention. **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build, staged deployments, testing. Once it is in there, it runs forever. ### 6. Deploying all infra with concourse **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** Fantasic ui to view current status and yaml based automation. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** User input value is impossible like jenkins **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complicated and continuous deployment is possible. Even monitoring activity can be one ### 7. Concourse CI **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** 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. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** 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. **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Concourse can help automate different deployment processes. It is linear and straightforward. It makes it easy for both programmers and non-programmers to use the solutions. ### 8. Overall a good and "clean" CI platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ethan W. | Principle Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** Narrow scope, container orientation, declarative language **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** Conditional flow is lacking (conditional execution of tasks, jobs, etc.) and UI could expose more information about past runs (details selected by pipeline developer forpublication) **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build and deployment pipelines ### 9. Comcourse from dev to continuous delivery **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** i like the idea of the pipeline as a code, run jobs in docker containers and out of the box git plugin **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** Concourse cons are: limited plugin libs, poor support, complex admin ops and not 100 reliable/stable. **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are creating continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines from dev to stg and trying to automate all team's ops manual stuff like creating and pushing artifacts to nexus, etc. ### 10. Lightweight and versatile **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** 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. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** 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. **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using concourse to move all our sprint boot applications on PCF. its super fast during deployment like 3-4 minutes. ### 11. Best Pipeline management app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** The easiest way to create a virtualized pipeline to help do jobs sequentially. Pipeline configuration is visualized in the web UI. By only one click, it show pass and failed status. Failed status also shows why it is failed. Everything runs inside a container which keeps my environment clean and clear. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** One thing I would like them to improve is branching within a pipeline. **Recommendations to others considering Concourse CI:** Branching in Pipeline **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have created my application pipeline which helps to deploy code to different environments with fashion: Code>> Unit test>>Deploy to lower environment>> Test>> Deploy to upper environment. ### 12. Open Source CI **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Concourse CI?** a) open source and container based architecture b) pipeline based configuration using yml scripting language. c) Fly binary is available to setup pipeline d) good alternative to jenkin. Easy to modify jobs. **What do you dislike about Concourse CI?** concourse is relatively new. Not much support is available. initially it takes time to learn scripting. **What problems is Concourse CI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use concourse pipeline for continuous integration of microservices jobs. jobs are triggered as soon as code is committed in git and then its deployed. great CI tool for automation. ## Concourse CI Discussions - [What is Concourse tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-concourse-tool) - [What is Concourse DevOps?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-concourse-devops) - [Why is Concourse better than Jenkins?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-is-concourse-better-than-jenkins) - [What is Concourse used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-concourse-used-for) - [View Concourse CI pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/concourse-ci/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+18%3A15%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f6185005-ccea-48c3-b4a2-7e1ee40a6bb8&secure%5Btoken%5D=2910a4b4505f2a7be7a8ef4c15baec2d96bf4edcadd5d2235a5b9d8bf3a47d70&format=llm_user) ## Concourse CI Features **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Concourse CI Alternatives - [CircleCI](https://www.g2.com/products/circleci/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (499 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (874 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (549 reviews)