How to Install GoCD on macOS

GoCD is a continuous delivery tool that helps you automate and streamline your software delivery processes. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install GoCD on macOS.

Prerequisites

Before we get started with the installation, we need to ensure that we have the following prerequisites in place:

• macOS operating system
• Terminal application
• Homebrew package manager

Step 1: Install Homebrew

Homebrew is a popular package manager for macOS that allows you to easily install and manage software packages. To install Homebrew, open the Terminal application and run the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Wait for the installation to complete before proceeding to the next step.

Step 2: Install GoCD

Now that we have Homebrew installed, we can use it to install GoCD. Open the Terminal application and run the following command:

brew install go

Wait for the installation to complete. This will install the latest version of GoCD on your macOS system.

Step 3: Start GoCD Server

To start the GoCD server, run the following command in Terminal:

gocd-server start

You should see the GoCD server starting up in the Terminal window. Wait for the server to start up completely before proceeding to the next step.

Step 4: Access GoCD Dashboard

Open your web browser and go to the following URL:

http://localhost:8153/go

This will open the GoCD dashboard in your web browser. You can now start using GoCD to automate and streamline your software delivery processes.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install GoCD on macOS. We also learned how to start the GoCD server and access the GoCD dashboard. GoCD is a powerful continuous delivery tool that can help you automate and streamline your software delivery processes, and it is now set up and ready to be used on your macOS system.