We performed a comparison between Harness and Jenkins 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."It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"The most valuable aspect of Jenkins is pipeline customization. Jenkins provides a declarative pipeline as well as a scripted pipeline. The scripted pipeline uses a programming language. You can customize it to your needs, so we use Jenkins because other solutions like Travis and Spinnaker don't allow much customization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration between different tools."
"I am not aware of the available options in the market right now compared to Jenkins, but I am pretty much happy with the service that Jenkins is providing our company."
"Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
"Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product."
"Jenkins is the most widely used development tool, so there are many plugins and it's easy to integrate. There is a large user base to provide community support, which I find very valuable. If I need to find a better way to do something, I can always get help from the community. Automation is about thinking outside of the box, and other users are constantly adding new plugins."
"Automation of chores like deployment, frequent manual tasks (like running scripts on test and production systems) reduced the time used and the number of errors made by engineers, freeing them to do meaningful work instead."
"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
"Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement."
"Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on."
"There are a lot of things that they can try to improvise. They can reduce a lot of configurations. It is currently supporting Groovy for scripting. It would be really good if it can be improvised for Python because, for most of the automation, we have Python as a script. It would be good if can also support Python. We have a lot of Android builds. These Android builds can be a part of Jenkins. It can have some plug-ins or configurations for Android builds. There should also be some internal matrix to check the performance. We also want to have more REST API support, which is currently not much in Jenkins. We are not able to get more information about running Jenkins. More REST API support should be provided."
"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."
"In our case, we have several products built using Jenkins. It is quite difficult to navigate into the latest stable build in a given OS."
"We need more licensed product integrations."
"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."
"The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."
Harness is ranked 8th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Harness is rated 7.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". Harness is most compared with Tekton, Bamboo, GitHub Actions, TeamCity and GitLab, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Tekton.
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