When comparing pipelight 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 pipelight is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose GoCD is:
GoCD supports pipelines natively. This way you can build your projects by pipelining them.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free and Open source
Foss and ultra lightweight software!
You can edit your pipelines either in Yaml or in Typescript.
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 Linux only
It is only compatible with Linux due to it's low level process management! The counterpart of being such lightweight.
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.
Con Somewhat tricky to setup
