Cruise: Continuous Integration and Release Management

Cruise is a Continuous Integration and Release Management system that enables rapid, repeatable and reliable software releases. It reduces the effort and risk associated with releasing complex applications allowing your team to focus on work that really matters: delivering value through innovation.

Cruise draws upon the extensive release engineering experience of ThoughtWorks, the creators of the original CruiseControl.

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Release Anxiety is History

Your team sweats it out for months to develop a new application. Then comes the crowning moment - rolling out your application - and panic strikes! The dependencies and complexities of deployment are confusing. Defects, performance problems and integration failures are often discovered at the last moment, causing rollbacks. Deployments to testing and production environments are painful because teams don’t have visibility into, and control over the process.

Cruise, the continuous deployment tool, introduces team collaboration to release management. The straightforward, usability-driven user interface gives your team visibility of the entire build cycle at the level they choose. The wide spectrum of features, including its unique deployment pipelines and zero-configuration build grid, simplify your release management process and help you roll out new features and bug fixes rapidly and reliably.

Cruise helps shorten your release cycle time providing at-a-glance real-time visibility into and control over your build, test, deploy and release process. It fosters collaborative release management and simplifies continuous integration and deployment.

Cruise is built by ThoughtWorks - pioneers of continuous integration and original creators of CruiseControl. Cruise comes with ThoughtWorks’ 10+ years of experience in enterprise-level release management

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What does it integrate with?

Source control: Cruise supports Subversion, Git, Perforce and Mercurial. Support for other revision control systems is coming soon.

Builders: Cruise can run any tool that has a command-line interface. However we provide some extra glue for ant, nant and rake.

Reports: If your tool outputs reports that can be displayed in a web browser, whether plain text, html, images , videos or flash, Cruise can display them in its dashboard. No merging, xslt or futzing required: just tell Cruise where to find the reports.

Open, RESTful API: Cruise has an open data model, which means you can easily create and read artifacts and properties in Cruise. You can even configure Cruise RESTfully.

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Deliver releases on time, every time with push-button deployments, simple and visual build dashboards, secure and auditable workflows.

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Roll out your code easily with short build feedback cycles, multi-platform testing, push-button deployments and email notifications.

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Improve the application’s quality and streamline the entire development process with multi-platform testing.

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Just Released: Cruise 1.3 with Feedback on the Fast Track

Cruise 1.3 gives you even faster feedback with event-based personalized e-mail notifications. It allows you to consolidate your infrastructure and make use of huge build servers by running multiple agents on one machine. Cruise 1.3 also focuses on usability with performance enhancements, improvements to the management of the deployment pipeline and artifact repository, wider integration capabilities and intuitive alerts.

The professional edition supports enhanced security allowing you to manage who has access to view and operate pipelines.

What's New in Cruise 1.3

Cruise Professional Edition: For Larger Teams

If your team has more than 5 users, try the Cruise Professional Edition and get a number of features that are not available in the Cruise Free Edition including:
  • Run agents on machines other than the one the server is installed on (known as "remote agents").
  • Manage large numbers of pipelines with pipeline groups.
  • Get Improved security with view and operate permissions for pipeline groups so you can control who can view pipelines, and who can perform operations such as triggering and pausing pipelines and approving and canceling running stages.
  • Benefit from multiple source control blocks of different types in a pipeline. Specify both Perforce and Subversion in one pipeline.
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Cruise, the continuous integration tool from ThoughtWorks, helps release software quickly and repeatably. This integration software helps in software build management and dependency management. All contents of this site, including information about continous integration, integration software, application release management and release management, are copyright of ThoughtWorks.