Concourse CI
Concourse CI is an open-source continuous integration and delivery system designed with a strong emphasis on containerization and a functional, declarative pipeline approach. It treats every step in a pipeline as a disposable container, ensuring reproducibility and isolation. Concourse focuses…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2015
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Concourse CI was created to solve the fundamental problem of unreliable, non-reproducible, and opaque CI/CD pipelines that often plagued monolithic or traditional CI systems. It aimed to provide a declarative, container-based approach to pipeline automation, ensuring that every build step runs in an isolated, immutable environment, thus eliminating 'works on my machine' scenarios and improving auditability and traceability of changes across the delivery process.
- Platforms
- Docker, BOSH (for deployment), Linux (workers and server), Windows (CLI client), macOS (CLI client), Kubernetes
Related technologies
Notable users
- Many enterprises using Cloud Foundry
- Pivotal (now part of VMware)
- Government agencies (e.g., GDS UK)
- VMware
- Financial institutions