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24 alternatives to Blue Ocean

A project that rethinks the user experience of Jenkins

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blue Ocean launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit▲72

   Automating the continuous deployment pipeline

   2017 · its alternatives →

2. 2UI
   UI improvements for Jenkins▲92

   2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3S2
   Ship 2.0 – A macOS Native Interface to GitHub Issues▲233

   2017 · realartists.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   SaltStack For DevOps▲66

   Fast and simple IT automation and configuration management

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Flowhub▲85

   Let's Make Code More Playful (Beta Open)

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6J2
   Jenkins 2.0 First Impressions▲6

   2016 · blog.alexellis.io · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Hello Tech Pros: Why Great Dev Managers are Like Pirate Ship Captains▲55

   Because they AAAAARRRRRRHHHHHHH

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Stack▲88

   A task manager for Devs & Designers

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Learn Enough Dev Environment to Be Dangerous▲68

   A tutorial introduction to computer development environments

   2017 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Software Daily - 10 Philosophies for Engineers▲71

    Strategies and reflections on software engineering

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11DA
    Diffmatic – A daily GitHub digest for dev teams▲67

    2014 · diffmatic.com · its alternatives →

12. 12IA
    Intuition – A daily GitHub digest and productivity tools for dev teams▲23

    2018 · intuition.app · its alternatives →

13. 13OT
    Our Take on Intuition Engineering with Docker▲31

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

14. 14EB
    Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service▲17

    2017 · elasticbyte.net · its alternatives →

15. 15DD
    DevLab – Docker Containerization for Local Development▲34

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16DA
    Dove – A utility to manage a development environment in Digital Ocean▲5

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17AJ
    A jenkins job template system (named francois)▲6

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18GA
    Grim – a dead simple build server written in go▲8

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19MA
    Mstrap, a tool for automated dev environment provisioning▲6

    2021 · mstrap.dev · its alternatives →

20. 20GA
    Gantree: A Docker/Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Tool▲10

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21SD
    Shipway – Docker workflow automation service with GitHub integration▲9

    2014 · shipway.io · its alternatives →

22. 22TA
    Task: a task runner / build tool, alternative to Make▲6

    2020 · taskfile.dev · its alternatives →

23. 23
    The Digital Garage▲5

    DevOps Made Easy

    2017 · its alternatives →

24. 24AA
    ADE – A common, consistent dev environment based on Docker▲5

    2019 · apex.ai · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →