When comparing Distelli vs GoCD, the Slant community recommends GoCD for most people. In the question“What are the best continuous integration tools?” GoCD is ranked 18th while Distelli is ranked 29th. The most important reason people chose GoCD is:
GoCD supports pipelines natively. This way you can build your projects by pipelining them.
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Pros
Pro Can deploy to any server, on any platform
Distelli suports all of the popular platforms and can be deployed to any server.
Pro Allows tracking deployments
Through Distelli, the user can track who deployed what application to what environment, as well as when it happened.
Pro Environment-specific commands
In Distelli, the user can set up environment-specific commands to run before, during, or after a deployment.
Pro Displays real-time logs
As the user deploys, real-time logs are displayed, providing useful information and giving the user an intuitive means off which he/she can operate.
Pro Native support for pipelines
GoCD supports pipelines natively. This way you can build your projects by pipelining them.
Pro Good traceability of what contributed to a given artifact
GoCD's LEAN value stream UI helps all stakeholders focus on efficient product delivery (instead of collections of technical tasks).
Cons
Con Security concerns
Although Distelli is very easy to use and helps developers who don't want to spend time setting up their build environment, there are a number of security concerns regarding the tool. This is because you have to host an agent that allows RPC with a relatively unknown third party.
Con Need Scripts for everything
Almost all operations are shell based, they are not configurations possible, your CI is as good as your scripting
Con Does not offer many plugins
Since it's relatively new and not very popular, there are few plugins available in GoCD.