We performed a comparison between Bamboo 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."In my experience Bamboo is scalable."
"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."
"It can do the CI pipeline well."
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."
"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."
"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."
"Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance."
"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."
"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."
"Jenkins is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to connect with different tools and technologies."
"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 integrates with multiple tools like Bitbucket and makes life easier. We don't have to write a lot of code since a lot of libraries are available."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."
"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."
"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."
"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."
"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."
"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."
"It can be challenging for someone new to the system or ecosystem to grasp, making it difficult to train new people and help them understand."
"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."
"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."
"I would like them to provide space for people to have a central node that stores all the logs of workspace information in a distributed fashion to facilitate backup and restoration. Currently, everything is stored on one node, so you need to set up distributed storage or an endpoint that you can use for backing up your information."
"Centralized user management would be helpful."
"Jenkins could have better cloud functionality. Currently, we are using the existing legacy model, but we are moving toward the cloud, so it would be great if they could improve in that area. In the future, I would like more cloud features and related training materials, like a video tutorial."
"For this solution to be a 10, it has to be a lot more stable. Maybe the public version of Jenkins is stable, but in our case it's not stable."
"The solution's UI can use a facelift and the logs can use more detailed information."
"Jenkins can be improved, but it's difficult for me to explain. The initial setup could be more straightforward. If you connect Jenkins with bookings and lockouts, it can be challenging."
"Jenkins can improve by continuing to add additional plugins for all the new solutions that are coming out within the cloud sphere."
"Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."
Bamboo is ranked 5th in Build Automation with 20 reviews while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Bamboo is rated 7.4, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Bamboo writes "High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available". 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". Bamboo is most compared with GitLab, GitHub Actions, Harness, Tekton and Microsoft Azure, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge, Harness and Tekton. See our Bamboo vs. Jenkins report.
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