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Concourse

Open-source, container-based CI/CD built around resources, tasks and jobs.

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About Concourse

Concourse is an open-source automation system for CI/CD with a distinctive, minimal model. Pipelines are declared in YAML as resources, such as Git repos, container images or S3 buckets, plus tasks that run in containers and jobs that connect them, and the web UI draws the whole pipeline as a live graph. Every task runs in a fresh container, so builds are reproducible and there is no hidden state on workers, and the fly CLI lets you run a task against local code before pushing. It is well suited to teams that like explicit, versioned pipeline definitions and a strict separation between configuration and workers. The model takes adjustment for people used to GitHub Actions or Jenkins, the community is smaller than it was during its Pivotal and VMware years, and there is no hosted service. It is free under the Apache 2.0 licence and runs on Linux, with workers on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Best for: Teams that want reproducible, explicitly declared pipelines on self-hosted workers.

Pros and cons

What works

  • Fresh container for every task
  • Visual pipeline graph
  • Run tasks locally with the fly CLI

Why people leave

  • Unusual model has a learning curve
  • Smaller, quieter community
  • No hosted option

Top Concourse alternatives

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  1. 1Woodpecker CI logo
    Woodpecker CI

    Simpler container-based CI that plugs into Git forges.

    66.5
  2. 2Jenkins logo
    Jenkins

    Much bigger ecosystem and community.

    62.6
  3. 3Tekton logo
    Tekton

    Kubernetes-native pipelines with reusable tasks.

    59.6
  4. 4GoCD logo
    GoCD

    Open-source CD server with value stream visualisation.

    57.2
  5. 5Buildkite logo
    Buildkite

    Hosted control plane with your own agents.

    55.3

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Concourse: common questions

Is Concourse free?

Yes. Concourse is free, open-source software that you can host yourself.

Is Concourse open source?

Yes. The source code is on GitHub at concourse/concourse. You can also run it on your own server.

What platforms does Concourse run on?

Concourse is available for Self-hosted and Linux.

What are the best alternatives to Concourse?

The highest-ranked Concourse alternatives right now are Woodpecker CI, Jenkins and Tekton. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.

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