We performed a comparison between Jenkins and Tekton 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."Jenkins has excellent task planning features."
"This solution has helped us in automating the build and test process, reducing time."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"Different types of jobs, such as Pipeline, Build, Freestyle, Maven, 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."
"When we have manual tasks, we have to depend on multiple technical teams. With Jenkins, we can bring all the technologies together by the click of a button. We can see results without having to depend on different teams. Jenkins makes life easy for the database and DevOps teams."
"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."
"Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively."
"Tekton is serverless and runs on OpenShift, and we leverage Tekton to take full advantage of the Kubernetes features such as running and scaling the solution in PaaS."
"Tekton is an orchestrator. It provides seamless integration for our pipelines. It offers robust support for executing tasks within the pipeline, allowing us to set up and run pipelines quickly."
"Centralized user management would be helpful."
"This solution could be improved by removing the storage of unnecessary data such as the history of test deployments that were unsuccessful."
"Performance-wise. This needs to be improved. Not only performance-wise, some functionality or some features can be added to Jenkins."
"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"The product should provide more visualization as to how many pipelines are performing and how many builds are happening. It should also integrate with Kubernetes and OpenShift."
"The documentation is not helpful, as it is not user-friendly."
"We cannot change the ownership of any directory or file or any kind of directory."
"It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges."
"Configuring Tekton requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, which can be difficult for developers."
"There might be occasional issues with storage or cluster-level logging, which can affect production."
Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews while Tekton is ranked 4th in Build Automation with 3 reviews. Jenkins is rated 8.0, while Tekton is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tekton writes "Provides seamless integration for pipelines, allowing easy setup and execution of tasks but working with YAML files in Tekton can be challenging to modify ". Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Harness, whereas Tekton is most compared with GitLab, GitHub Actions, Harness, Travis CI and CircleCI. See our Jenkins vs. Tekton report.
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