We performed a comparison between AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It helps develop CI/CD implementations with centralized management of code building, deployment, and version control."
"It's a perfect solution if you are just using AWS."
"Code deployment is the best feature."
"The product is a one-stop solution that you can use to integrate, deploy and host your application."
"AWS CodePipeline has valuable integration features."
"The most valuable feature of AWS CodePipeline is the flexibility of the configuration."
"The product is cost-effective and integrates well with the AWS environment."
"The tool's recent version helps us to run pipelines in parallel. The integration with other AWS services has greatly impacted our use of AWS CodePipeline. It made tasks such as integrating with Jira and provisioning instances much easier."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features. We can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections."
"Jenkins has a lot of built-in packages and tools."
"This is a great integration tool and very powerful."
"I love Jenkins. I like that you work on anything, and you make anything. Jenkins is very important for my team. I am satisfied with the product."
"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful."
"We can schedule anything with Jenkins, which is useful for deployment or anything that requires scheduling. It also has multiple plugins we can use for Maven, JUnit, etc."
"Jenkins can be used for elastic management, if you have any sensitive data or credentials you can use them across the environment. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and can be used across multiple use cases."
"The setup time is a bit long."
"There could be a possibility of deploying tag-based conditions for different environments using the same code base."
"It would be a much better tool if it could be made compatible with other cloud services as well since this is an area the product currently lacks."
"The support team’s response time must be improved."
"If there are many dependancies involved in the setup, it may take a long time."
"If you're talking about multi-cloud, you can't use it."
"The migration process from one source code to another needs improvement."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"Improvement-wise, I would want the solution's user interface to be changed for the better. In short, the solution can be made more user-friendly."
"It could be cheaper."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"Jenkins could simplify the user interface a little bit because it sometimes creates too many features cramped in the UI."
"There is no way for the cloud repositories to trigger Jenkins."
"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."
"The UI must be more user-friendly."
"There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script."
AWS CodePipeline is ranked 4th in Build Automation with 13 reviews while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. AWS CodePipeline is rated 8.4, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS CodePipeline writes "A fully managed service with excellent integrations and a flexible architecture". 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". AWS CodePipeline is most compared with GitLab, AWS CodeStar, GitHub Actions, Tekton and Bamboo, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, IBM Rational Build Forge, Tekton and Harness. See our AWS CodePipeline vs. Jenkins report.
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