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24 alternatives to Gocd – a lightweight Go-based CI/CD tool that runs on your dev machine

I built a small project called gocd because I wanted an easy way to deploy changes from GitHub pull requests without spinning up a full CI/CD stack. The idea is simple: instead of setting up runners, servers, or cloud infrastructure, you can just run it on your laptop (or a small server). It integrates with GitHub issues and PRs, automates builds and deploys, and makes it easy to access the running app remotely (e.g. over something like Tailscale). For me, this solved the problem of quickly testing and deploying code from issues/PRs in a lightweight way. Existing CI/CD systems…

Gocd is a lightweight CI/CD tool built in Go that runs locally on a developer's machine or small server, eliminating the need for complex infrastructure. It integrates with GitHub to automate builds and deployments… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hi HN! I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here. I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console. By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more. It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Buddy▲209

    One-click delivery automation for developers

    2016 · buddy.works · its alternatives →

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    The Unified and Autonomous Development Platform. Contribute to theonedev/onedev development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Git worktree navigator. Contribute to davvid/gcd development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I just released go-nbd, a lightweight Go library for effortlessly creating NBD servers and clients. Its a neat tool for creating custom Linux block devices with arbitrary backends, such as a file, byte slice or what I'm planning to use it for, a tape drive. While there are a few partially abandoned projects like this out there already, this library tries to be as maintainable as possible by only implementing the most recent handshake revision and baseline functionality for both the client and the server, while still having enough support to be useful. I'd love to get your feedback :)

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fall in love with CI/CD again

    2024 · jetbrains.com · its alternatives →

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    A webview based GitHub project app with native features

    2017 · justinfincher.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Fast, reliable, easy and affordable CI/CD

    2025 · garnix.io · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prevent data quality issues in pull requests

    2023 · metaplane.dev · its alternatives →

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    No gc, No goroutines, Produces small binaries while using the unmodified official go toolchain, and comes with complete Web SDK (generated from w3c/webref). We are building `pcz` to provide a reimagination of Go the language, in an effort to make it suitable for all kinds of programming tasks, and currently you can use it to build efficient web applications in Go using the generated Web SDK (as shown with the live web demo[1]). The journey is just starting, any suggestions? or any critics? [1]: https://primecitizens.github.io/livedemos/10-plat-web/

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GoCodeo▲144

    AI-Powered Unit Testing

    2024 · gocodeo.com · its alternatives →

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    In which I rewrite my toy pygit client in Go to see how suitable Go is for simple scripts.

    2023 · benhoyt.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built ggc (https://github.com/bmf-san/ggc), a terminal-based Git CLI tool written in Go. ggc provides: - A fast interactive UI (like `fzf`) for common Git operations - Traditional subcommands (e.g. `ggc add`, `ggc commit`) - Git-compatible config support (`ggc config` reads from `git config`) - Built-in aliases and workflow automation (e.g. `ggc addcommitpush`) The goal is to improve developer productivity by combining interactive workflows with scriptable CLI operations. It's still under active development, but I'd love feedback from the community! GitHub:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Project has been moved to: https://github.com/go-git/go-git - src-d/go-git

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn what you need about CI/CD to get your job done

    2023 · semaphore.io · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! For the past few months, I've been building a Nix-specific CI service, and quite a few people have been productively using it, so I thought I'd Show HN it. You might be wondering why build a Nix-specific CI. It turns out its quite hard to get a really good CI setup for Nix without spending a lot of time or money on it (or both), and even then solutions don't tend to be optimal. Garnix, on the other hand, handles everything, and simply. Just create an account, install the GitHub app on the repositories you want, and you're good to go! Each package gets its own GitHub check, and…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Automating developer workflows from GitHub comments

    2023 · cto.ai · its alternatives →

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    I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow. I didn't expect it to blow up, so it wasn't 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly. Happy to know what you think and talk about it.

    May 2026 · ghost.charity · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’ve been running GitHub Actions workflows for a while, and when GitHub announced the new ubuntu-slim runners as a cheaper alternative to ubuntu-latest, I wanted to migrate—but figuring out which workflows are safe to switch turned out to be surprisingly tedious. You need to check for Docker usage, services, containers, step failures due to missing packages, and whether jobs rely on tools not available in the slim image. So I built gh-slimify, a GitHub CLI extension that automates all of this. It scans your repository, detects which jobs can be migrated, flags incompatible patterns,…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    C to Go Assembly. Contribute to minio/c2goasm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I just published v0.1.0 of go-bt and would love some feedback from the Go veterans here. Thanks in advance!

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GoCodeo▲112

    The fastest path from PRD to full-stack apps

    2025 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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