Compare GoCD vs. UrbanCode Deploy
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"Permission separations mean that we can grant limited permissions for each team or team member." | "It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes." "The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts." "The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues." |
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"The documentation really should be improved by including real examples and more setup cases." | "I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do." "I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline." "I would like to see more reporting for container architecture." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"It's an open-source and free tool." | "The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have." "Considering COVID-19, the price is too high." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts. Top Answer: The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have. There is a separate charge if you want support from IBM, and the… more » Top Answer: This solution could be made more flexible with respect to deploying databases. Liquibase is a valuable feature but it is weak and could be better. I have just seen a video on a product called Datical… more » |
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Views 2,879 Comparisons 2,650 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 642 Rating 8.0 | Views 7,636 Comparisons 5,419 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 835 Rating 8.0 |
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Also Known As | |
| Adaptive ALM, Thoughtworks Go | uDeploy |
Learn | |
| Thoughtworks | IBM |
Overview | |
| GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers businesses a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility. It was designed for continuous delivery and the concepts essential to this practice are built in at the core. | IBM UrbanCode Deploy orchestrates and automates the deployment of applications, middleware configuration, and database changes into development, test, and production environments—local, dedicated or shared cloud environments—accelerating time to market and reducing cost by shrinking manual efforts from days to minutes with automation, while reducing risk by cutting deployment errors by up to 90 percent. |
Offer | |
Learn more about GoCD | Learn more about UrbanCode Deploy |
Sample Customers | |
| Ancestry.com, Barclay Card, AutoTrader, BT Financial Group, Gamesys, Nike, Vodafone, Haufe Lexware, Medidata, Hoovers | As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites. However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide. |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider23% Financial Services Firm6% Retailer5% | Financial Services Firm33% Insurance Company22% Healthcare Company17% Retailer11% Computer Software Company39% Financial Services Firm15% Comms Service Provider14% Insurance Company8% |
Company Size | |
No Data Available | Small Business18% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise64% |
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GoCD is ranked 8th in Release Automation with 1 review while UrbanCode Deploy is ranked 4th in Release Automation with 3 reviews. GoCD is rated 8.0, while UrbanCode Deploy is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GoCD writes "User-friendly interface, good integration with LDAP, and has an easily-extendable open architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UrbanCode Deploy writes "Provides a Full Overview of the Development Environment". GoCD is most compared with Concourse for VMware Tanzu, Jenkins, Microsoft Azure DevOps, GitLab and Digital.ai Deploy, whereas UrbanCode Deploy is most compared with Ansible, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Digital.ai Deploy, Nolio Release Automation and MidVision RapidDeploy.
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