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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CloudFoundry

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACloudFoundry is a free, open source cloud computing platform supported by the non-profit CloudFoundry. It is not tied to any particular cloud service, but can be self-hosted or run on any cloud service preferred.N/A

    GoCD

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AGoCD, from ThoughtWorks in Chicago, is an application lifecycle management and development tool.N/A
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    CloudFoundryGoCD
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    Pricing Offerings
    CloudFoundryGoCD
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    CloudFoundryGoCD
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of CloudFoundry and GoCD
    Feature
    CloudFoundry
    9.8
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    GoCD
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    CloudFoundryGoCD
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Gradle Build Tool (Open Source)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudFoundryGoCD
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudFoundryGoCD
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CloudFoundry
    It's well suited if:
    • The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
    • The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
    • The organization has programs in different languages.
    • The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
    It's less suited if:
    • The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
    • The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
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    ThoughtWorks
    Previously, our team used Jenkins. However, since it's a shared deployment resource we don't have admin access. We tried GoCD as it's open source and we really like. We set up our deployment pipeline to run whenever codes are merged to master, run the unit test and revert back if it doesn't pass. Once it's deployed to the staging environment, we can simply do 1-click to deploy the appropriate version to production. We use this to deploy to an on-prem server and also AWS. Some deployment pipelines use custom Powershell script for.Net application, some others use Bash script to execute the docker push and cloud formation template to build elastic beanstalk.
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    Pros
    CloudFoundry
    • Support for Orgs and Spaces that allow for managing users and deployables within a large organization.
    • Easy deployment, deploying code is as simple as executing single line from CLI, thanks to build-packs.
    • Solid and rich CLI, that allows for various operations on the instance.
    • Isolated Virtual Machines called Droplets, that provide clean run time environment for the code. This used to be a problem with Weblogic and other application servers, where multiple applications are run on the same cluster and they share resources.
    • SSH capability for the droplet (isolated VM's are called droplets), that allows for real time viewing of the App code while the application is running.
    • Support for multiple languages, thanks to build-packs.
    • Support for horizontal scaling, scaling an instance horizontally is a breeze.
    • Support for configuring environment variable using the service bindings.
    • Supports memory and disk space limit allocation for individual applications.
    • Supports API's as well as workers (processes without endpoints)
    • Supports blue-green deployment with minimal down time
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    ThoughtWorks
    • Pipeline-as-Code works really well. All our pipelines are defined in yml files, which are checked into SCM.
    • The ability to link multiple pipelines together is really cool. Later pipelines can declare a dependency to pick up the build artifacts of earlier ones.
    • Agents definition is really great. We can define multiple different kinds of environments to best suit our diverse build systems.
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    Cons
    CloudFoundry
    • Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
    • Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
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    ThoughtWorks
    • UI can be improved
    • Location for settings can be re-arranged
    • API for setting up pipeline
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    Alternatives Considered
    CloudFoundry
    While Docker shines in providing support for volumes and stateful instances, Cloud foundry shines in providing support for deploying stateless services. Heroku shines in integrating with Git and using commits to git as hooks to trigger deployments right from the command line. But it does not provide on-premise solution that Cloud foundry provides.
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    ThoughtWorks
    GoCD is easier to setup, but harder to customize at runtime. There's no way to trigger a pipeline with custom parameters.
    Jenkins is more flexible at runtime. You can define multiple user-provided parameters so when user needs to trigger a build, there's a form for him/her to input the parameters.
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    Return on Investment
    CloudFoundry
    • Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
    • Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
    • Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
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    ThoughtWorks
    • ROI has been good since it's open source
    • Settings.xml need to be backed up periodically. It contains all the settings for your pipelines! We accidentally deleted before and we have to restore and re-create several missing pipelines
    • More straight forward use of API and allows filtering e.g., pull all pipelines triggered after this date
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