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Jez Humble

Announcing Cruise - Continuous Integration and Release Management system

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Jez Humble
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July 28, 2008
ThoughtWorks Studios is proud to announce that Cruise, our continuous integration and release management product, is available for download and purchase.

Since ThoughtWorks' creation of CruiseControl, the first open source continuous integration server, our consultants have been helping our clients implement the practice of continuous integration. Over the years we've developed a catalogue of principles and practices around build and deployment management to deliver fast, high quality, low risk software releases. All of this collected experience has gone into the development of Cruise.

If you want to just get started with continuous integration, you can get up and running in just a few minutes.

If you're already a continuous integration power user, you'll appreciate features like:
  • Our zero-configuration build cloud, which means you only configure Cruise in one place. Install Cruise Agents on other computers and they'll pick up configuration and check out code automatically. You can even monitor the status of every Agent and see its live build output on the central dashboard.
  • Integrated support for build pipelines. Group your build into stages, and see your changes progress through the various tests and environments you define from check-in through to deployment. Manually control the progress of builds through your environments.
  • Powerful parallelisation. Split long-running builds into jobs, and idle Cruise Agents will pick them up and run them in parallel. Make your tests run faster, and test easily on multiple platforms.
    • ...and much more.
You can get a free trial version of Cruise, which is valid for a month, or buy a license. Academic institutions, non-profits and open source projects can email us for free licenses. Once you're done with the trial, if you don't need our high performance editions, you can still keep on building with our free edition.

We've been using Cruise internally within ThoughtWorks on some of our largest and most critical projects to get their feedback and make sure that we've created a product that addresses the problems that high-performance software delivery teams face today. We hope you will be delighted using Cruise, and we look forward to your feedback as we start work on 1.1.
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  1. Kevin O'Neill
    July 29th, 2008 @ 01:55 PM

    Is there a published plugin api. I like what i see but without a git scm provider it's a non starter.

  2. Nick Brooks
    July 30th, 2008 @ 09:46 AM

    What builders do you support? In the video you mention Ant. Any others?

  3. Rafel
    July 30th, 2008 @ 10:41 PM

    How much one(only one agent) license??

  4. Jez Humble
    July 31st, 2008 @ 08:20 AM

    Thanks for your comments.

    @Kevin: Git is very high up our list for SCM support. It will definitely be there for 1.1. We don't have a plug-in API right now.

    @Nick: We support any builder or command you like through the "exec" builder. However you can explicitly choose ant, nant and rake.

    @Rafel: you can get a free license for up to 2 agents. For now, get yourself a trial license from the download page. When that expires, you can get a free license.

    Thanks,

    Jez.

  5. Nick Brooks
    July 31st, 2008 @ 11:09 AM

    Thanks Jez. I was hoping you'd support rake. Looks like I'll have to download a trial and play around! Any plans on having an online demo available with sample projects setup?

  6. WD
    October 24th, 2008 @ 02:21 AM

    does it support .net projects?

  7. Chad Wathington
    November 1st, 2008 @ 01:14 AM

    @WD, yes it does via Nant as a builder. MSBuild is on the way as are SCMs popular in the .Net community.

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