In this blog, we are going to set up a typical CI/CD pipeline using concourse to make the development process more agile and deployment more visible.

The concourse is an open-source continuous thing-doer.

Built on the simple mechanics of resources, tasks, and jobs, Concourse presents a general approach to automation that makes it great for CI/CD.

Quick Start Concourse CI

There are many ways to setup concourse but in this blog, we are going to use the easiest way to setup concourse that is using docker-compose.

Download the docker-compose file

It contains a concourse server and PostgreSQL database for concourse backend.

wget https://concourse-ci.org/docker-compose.yml

Run that docker-compose file

docker-compose up -d

The concourse will be running at localhost:8080. You can log in with the username/password as a test/test.

fly CLI command-line tool

_fly _CLI is a command-line tool that you need to use to set up and manage pipelines on Concourse. We need to install fly CLI by downloading it from the web UI (localhost:8080). You can see in the above welcome page to download the CLI for windows, mac, and Linux.

After download the CLI tool we need to give execute permission to that and copy to the /usr/bin/

chmod +x fly
sudo cp fly /usr/bin/

Next, set target your local Concourse as the test user:

fly -t tutorial login -c http://localhost:8080 -u test -p test

Now you have successfully setup concourse on your local machine, let’s move to the CI/CD part.

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