Concourse

Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt

concourse/concourse · alive · ★ 7.83k · last commit today · 78 open issues

License: Apache-2.0

Good fit for Platform / SRE teams that want declarative pipeline-as-data and reproducible builds with explicit resource versioning.

Weak at Steep learning curve; the resource/task abstraction is unfamiliar to teams coming from CircleCI's job/step model.

In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli circleci prints the CircleCI comparison table including Concourse. how the CLI works →

Replaces these SaaS

CircleCI · Hosted CI/CD
Pull `concourse/concourse:7` with the `quickstart` compose from concourse-ci.org. Concourse is opinionated: pipelines, jobs, resources (everything is a resource — git repo, Docker image, S3 bucket), and tasks. Migrating a CircleCI config is a redesign rather than a port — write the equivalent pipeline in Concourse YAML. Higher learning curve, but the pipeline-as-data model scales well at large orgs.

Maintainers and forks: drop a badge in your README to link readers from the SaaS-comparison page back to your repo.

Is Concourse actively maintained?

Yes — last commit today. The repository is alive (commit activity within the past 90 days).

What does Concourse cost to self-host?

Concourse is free and open source under Apache-2.0. Typical self-host VPS cost: $15-30/mo VPS — workers eat resources during builds.

Which SaaS does Concourse replace?

Concourse is listed as an open-source self-host alternative to: CircleCI.