We performed a comparison between Bamboo and Harness based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Build Automation."In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."
"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."
"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."
"It can do the CI pipeline well."
"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."
"The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."
"Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance."
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."
"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."
"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."
"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."
"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."
"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."
"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."
"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
Bamboo is ranked 5th in Build Automation with 20 reviews while Harness is ranked 8th in Build Automation with 1 review. Bamboo is rated 7.4, while Harness is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Bamboo writes "High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". Bamboo is most compared with GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Tekton and Microsoft Azure, whereas Harness is most compared with Tekton, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, TeamCity and GitLab.
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