When comparing Buddy vs GoCD, the Slant community recommends Buddy for most people. In the question“What are the best continuous integration tools?” Buddy is ranked 15th while GoCD is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Buddy is:
The ease to setup custom pipelines are amazing, can easily various settings quickly and then be ready to deploy.
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Pros
Pro Easy Pipeline Setups
The ease to setup custom pipelines are amazing, can easily various settings quickly and then be ready to deploy.
Pro Multitude of Actions
Almost any action you can need and think of is already here, making it easy for you to setup your pipeline.
Pro Nice material design
The design is minimalistic and based on today's standarts on material design. It uses colors which are pleasing to the eye and displays the information in an ordered way. The main view shows the latest activity sorted in a chronological order, displaying commits and pushes.
Every repo has it's own view, on the top there's the repo's name and a dropdown which displays the current branch with the ability to change to another branch or to create a new one.
On the right there's a vertical menu with links to add a new file, show the history or to download the current repository.
Pro Free private repositories
Private repositories are free. Although they are free for up to 3 repos and each repository must be less than 100MB in size.
Pro Lots of integrations, for example discord, slack
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 Unlimited private repositories are not free
To have more than three repositories and to bypass the limit of 100MB per repository it's not free. It costs $3/month.
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.