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    DigitalOcean Kubernetes

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes is designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.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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    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoCD
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    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoCD
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoCD
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean KubernetesGoCD
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    DigitalOcean
    DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment.
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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
    DigitalOcean
    • Hosted dashboard
    • Hosted container registry
    • Horizontal auto-scaling
    • LetsEncrypt SSL termination
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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
    DigitalOcean
    • Option for internal VPC-only deployment
    • Better integration with cloud firewall
    • Better integration with DO App platform via VPC
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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
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in.
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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
    DigitalOcean
    • Excellent uptime
    • Low cost for provided value
    • Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value
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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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