We performed a comparison between AWS CodeBuild 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."The integration is a good feature."
"It works seamlessly with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)."
"The solution provides good integrations."
"The integration with other AWS services has streamlined our workflow."
"The integration is a good feature."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to connect with different tools and technologies."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration between different tools."
"It can scale easily."
"Very easy to understand for newcomers."
"Jenkins is stable, user-friendly, and helps with continuous integration. As of today, I can't see any tool that's better than Jenkins."
"The automated elements are easy to use and you can put them into your server."
"It's very easy to learn."
"Has enabled full automation of the company."
"They can further improve the integration of the Bitbucket for CodeBuild."
"The deployment fails sometimes."
"While working on building images for multiple applications within a single script, I encountered an issue where looping functionality was not supported as expected."
"There is no persistent storage or preservation of workspace between the builds."
"Jenkins is an open-source solution, and people tend to stay on the same version for a long time. When you look for an answer on Google, you often find something that doesn't relate to your implementation. The plugins are both the aspect of Jenkins and also one of the worst because the plugins can have different versions, so it's hard to figure out how to solve the problems."
"It would be better if there were an option to remove its Java dependency. This would make it more compatible with other software, and it could be much better. At present, we have to depend on Java whenever we want to deploy agents."
"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."
"The documentation is not helpful, as it is not user-friendly."
"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."
"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."
"We would like to see the addition of mobile simulators support to this solution, as part of its open-source offering. We currently have to carry out manual testing for these platforms."
"Developer documentation for plugins, plugin development, integrations: Sometimes it’s tricky to do pretty obvious things."
AWS CodeBuild is ranked 9th in Build Automation with 4 reviews while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. AWS CodeBuild is rated 8.8, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS CodeBuild writes "Provides good integrations, is flexible, and has a comparable price". 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 CodeBuild is most compared with GitLab, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Tekton and AWS CodePipeline, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and JFrog Pipeline. See our AWS CodeBuild vs. Jenkins report.
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