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Go continuous delivery

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Original author(s)
  
ThoughtWorks

Written in
  
Java, Ruby

Type
  
Continuous delivery

Initial release
  
2007 (as Cruise)

Platform
  
cross platform

Stable release
  
17.1.0 / January 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01)

Go or GoCD is an open source tool which is used in software development to achieve continuous delivery (CD) of software. It supports automating the entire build-test-release process from code check-in to deployment. It helps to keep producing valuable software in short cycles and ensure that the software can be reliably released at any time.

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History

Go was originally developed at ThoughtWorks Studios in 2007 and was called Cruise before being renamed GoCD in 2010 and released as open source in 2014.

Concepts

  • A Pipeline consists of multiple stages, each of which will be run in order.
  • A Stage consists of multiple jobs, each of which can run independently of the others.
  • A Job consists of multiple tasks, each of which will be run in order.
  • A Task is an action that needs to be performed. Usually, it is a single command.
  • A Material is a cause for a pipeline to run. This could be a commit made to a source code repository or a timer trigger.
  • Agents run the jobs assigned to them.
  • References

    Go continuous delivery Wikipedia