As for writing a plugin, no, it would not have been possible. Concourse has an entirely different model of operation and needs easy access to containerisation facilities to achieve it.
Concourse doesn't really think in terms of "plugins". What you become accustomed to is wondering "is there a resource type for this?".
Right now I work on a software repo with a moderately complex API for uploading final binaries and releasing them to clients to download. Instead of telling people to write scripts or install a plugin, I can point them to the resource that another team has written.
"Just add the resource". Released software is now just a stream of events, no different from git commits, S3 files, points in time, Tracker stories etc etc. Every resource has the same interface so it makes it possible to click together stuff into clever combinations, rather than lashing together awkwardly and hoping it'll work.
As for writing a plugin, no, it would not have been possible. Concourse has an entirely different model of operation and needs easy access to containerisation facilities to achieve it.
Concourse doesn't really think in terms of "plugins". What you become accustomed to is wondering "is there a resource type for this?".
Right now I work on a software repo with a moderately complex API for uploading final binaries and releasing them to clients to download. Instead of telling people to write scripts or install a plugin, I can point them to the resource that another team has written.
"Just add the resource". Released software is now just a stream of events, no different from git commits, S3 files, points in time, Tracker stories etc etc. Every resource has the same interface so it makes it possible to click together stuff into clever combinations, rather than lashing together awkwardly and hoping it'll work.