Thoughtworks Go Alternatives

Question

We were investigating the possibility of using Thoughtworks Go to help improve our Build / Deployment / Release process here at work, but due to the price factor and what you actually got we decided against it.

I was wondering, are there any alternatives to Thoughtworks Go around? They could either be commercial or open source, I don't mind.

Answer 1

Go has just been released as open source - see http://www.thoughtworks.com/news/go-continuous-delivery-now-available-as-free-open-source

Answer 2

This really depends what you want to achieve.

If you are looking to implement Continuous Delivery and therefore deployment pipelines (from dev all the way to production), then GO is the only tool which has this higher-level view at the moment, I believe.

OTOH, if you;re just looking for a CI server, then the free version of GO works well, as does the free version of TeamCity, Jenkins and Atlassian Bamboo. None of the latter three yet supports the concept of deployment pipelines as a first-class feature, I think.