GoCD

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server from ThoughtWorks. It models pipelines, stages, and artifacts with explicit promotion between environments. We assess it alongside Jenkins for legacy CD installs; new pipelines should not start here unless migration cost dominates.

Blurb

GoCD is an open-source tool which is used in software development to help teams and organizations automate the continuous delivery of software.

Summary

When to use: maintaining an existing GoCD server; need visual pipeline DAG and artifact promotion semantics teams already understand.

When to skip: greenfield repos; preference for pipeline-as-code in git without a central CD server; GitOps models where cluster state is the source of truth.

Note: operational burden similar to other pet CD servers; treat the server as infrastructure with backups and upgrades planned.