When comparing Buildbot vs GoCD, the Slant community recommends GoCD for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted continuous integration tools?” GoCD is ranked 7th while Buildbot is ranked 9th. 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 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 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.