We performed a comparison between Harness and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"Very easy to understand for newcomers."
"There are a large number of plugins available for integration with third party systems."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub, and the automation for deployment."
"It is very useful for us to be able to collect and manage automatic processing pipelines."
"We significantly reduced build times of large projects (more than 80k lines of Scala code) using build time on Jenkins as a time sample. It reduced the developer write-test-commit cycle time, and increased productivity."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
"The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."
"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."
"I think an integrated help button, that respected the context of the change/work in hand, would be a worthwhile improvement."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"Jenkins should adopt the Pipeline as Code approach by building a deployment pipeline using the Jenkins file."
"This solution could be improved by removing the storage of unnecessary data such as the history of test deployments that were unsuccessful."
"The documentation could be more friendly, and more examples of how to use it."
"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."
Harness is ranked 12th 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, TeamCity, GitHub Actions and GitLab, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Bazel.
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