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GoCD vs Nolio Release Automation comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

GoCD
Ranking in Release Automation
16th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (22nd), Build Automation (21st)
Nolio Release Automation
Ranking in Release Automation
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of GoCD is 3.0%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nolio Release Automation is 3.1%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nolio Release Automation3.1%
GoCD3.0%
Other93.9%
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

RajeshReddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Infosys
The UI is colorful, but the user experience must be improved
We can see all the pipelines with a simple search. The UI is colorful. The user experience is very rich. The product is very easy to learn if we know a bit of the basics. If we have someone to show us how to use it, it is very easy.
Akhilesh B N - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Delivery Engineer at Barclays Capital
Real-time monitoring and seamless integration enhance deployment efficiency
The main disadvantage I see is the limited awareness of Nolio Release Automation in other organizations. It is a very nice tool, but its market presence is limited. I heard from the organization that the licensing cost was somewhat expensive. Perhaps focusing on marketing efforts would be beneficial. It is a really nice tool, and I am unsure why many organizations are not using Nolio Release Automation. It is one of the greatest tools for continuous deployment, yet its popularity remains limited. Some organizations are not aware of its existence. This might be an area worth researching and potentially developing new marketing strategies.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has a user-friendly interface, which for free and open-source tools, the UI is really amazing and simple."
"After we switched to GO, each team can set-up their own delivery pipeline and run it themselves."
"The UI is colorful."
"Permission separations mean that we can grant limited permissions for each team or team member."
"GoCD's open-source nature is valuable."
"The most notable aspect is its user interface, which we find to be user-friendly and straightforward for deploying and comprehending pipelines. We have the ability to create multiple pipelines, and in addition to that, the resource consumption is impressive."
"In terms of value added it has more than achieved everything we wanted from it and more."
"It now takes around two hours for us to deploy any product, whereas it used to take close to two months, including preparation."
"The release time has gone down from a number of days to a few minutes."
"With CA Release Automation, the customers whom I worked with were able to increase the number of deployments, increase the deployment speed, increase the number of concurrent deployments, lower the error rate, and improve the visibility and the reliability of the deployment process."
"We have the repeatability, we have the confidence that it's doing the same thing each time the way we've set it up to do and just being able to have the expectation of knowing exactly what's going to happen in the order that our infrastructure needs it to happen."
"UI-based orchestration Ease of use of the application from anyone who is technical to completely non-tech folk Great visualization and consolidation of reports across the organization"
"In 12 days, we have automated this application and increased the deployment from 70 applications to 350 in three months."
"The benefits achieved for the clients are: Reduction in downtime, less time to market, shorter turn around times in case of failure, earlier development, and Ops teams who used to work in silos are now more coordinated."
"It has significantly improved the workload balance of the people that are part of my group and has helped us to get things done around 70 to 80% faster than before."
 

Cons

"The documentation really should be improved by including real examples and more setup cases."
"GO doesn't come with a lot of out of the box features like other tools, don't expect that you can get it to work by clicking the NEXT button."
"The tool must be more user-friendly."
"The aspect that requires attention is the user management component. When integrating with BitLabs and authenticating through GitLab, there are specific features we desire. One important feature is the ability to import users directly from GitLab, along with their respective designations, and assign appropriate privileges based on that information. Allocating different privileges to users is a time-consuming process for us."
"User management, Documentation, Advanced GUI functionality."
"It is difficult to assign different access levels because it relies on separate keys for developer and admin access, which could be simplified."
"Stability is an area for improvement."
"Some of the existing action packs still have bugs which need to be fixed."
"When I started using Nolio around eight months ago, a challenge was the lack of relevant information and related support for learning."
"The UI and the design can sometimes be a little flaky, and that is a little frustrating at different points, but overall, it's definitely a solution, if you're looking for an enterprise product to do your releases for multiple types of deployments."
"In version 6.6, we faced numerous performance issues. This might be because it is a six-year-old version, and we are supporting nearly 1,500 applications and 15,000 to 16,000 agents."
"We couldn’t get the support, and we weren’t able to achieve our goals, and there were no other plug-ins available for JIRA or Jenkins."
"We use two versions – the older version (4.4) is very unstable, while the newer one (5.5) is much better."
"Overall, it's a great product, but not that user friendly concerning the deployment server configuration/management."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's an open-source and free tool."
"This is an open-source solution and it is inexpensive."
"Nolio is a pretty much good tool, though its pricing is relatively high in the market. It's more expensive than other tools."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
14%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise39
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with GoCD?
One area of product improvement is the access control system. It is difficult to assign different access levels because it relies on separate keys for developer and admin access, which could be sim...
What is your primary use case for GoCD?
The solution helps us deploy microservices across multiple environments.
What advice do you have for others considering GoCD?
We integrate the solution with Git, where we store our code. We use Maven to build the code and tools like SonarQube and Checkmarx for code quality checks. We deploy our services in a Kubernetes-ba...
What needs improvement with Nolio Release Automation?
The main disadvantage I see is the limited awareness of Nolio Release Automation in other organizations. It is a very nice tool, but its market presence is limited. I heard from the organization th...
What is your primary use case for Nolio Release Automation?
I am working for an organization where they have been using Nolio Release Automation since 2016-2017. We are currently using version 6.6, and due to dependencies and lack of support from Broadcom, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Nolio Release Automation?
The 6.9 version offers significant improvements over 6.6. The dashboard is very appealing, showing information about applications and offline agents. We can easily remove offline agents and upgrade...
 

Also Known As

Adaptive ALM, Thoughtworks Go
CA Release Automation
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Ancestry.com, Barclay Card, AutoTrader, BT Financial Group, Gamesys, Nike, Vodafone, Haufe Lexware, Medidata, Hoovers
CA Release Automation customers include Citrix, NIIT Technologies, ING Bank, Molina Healthcare, Swisscom, Bupa and Tesco. Read case studies from customers who are igniting and advancing their continuous delivery journey with CA Release Automation.
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