We performed a comparison between Jenkins and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Build Automation."We have started to integrate Pipelines as a part of a build, and built a library of common functions. It simplified and made our build scripts more readable."
"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."
"With Jenkins, the pipeline will take your code from any versioning system like GitHub or Bitbucket. All the security scans can happen in one go and then all the tests also get run. You can just build one container in it and deploy it."
"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."
"We really appreciate that this solution is plug and play. When coding in the version control system, this product completes the build process automatically."
"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."
"The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"I appreciate that everything is basically shift forward from a security standpoint."
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"UI is quite outdated."
"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."
"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."
"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."
"Jenkins is an old product, and we encounter performance issues and slow response. Also, some of the plugins are not stable."
"There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script."
"Jenkins is not an easy solution to use and the configuration is not simple. They can improve the solution by adding a graphical interface that is more user-friendly."
"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."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"The license price could be lower."
"The solution's email hosting pricing could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"Some of the capabilities available in an on-premise SQL Server aren't available in Azure. For instance, we found Azure Managed Instance to be lacking in certain aspects. One of our clients decided to stay on-premise rather than migrate to Azure because of this reason."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The level of authorization or authorization cascading can be improved. We have the most powerful admins and then we have sub-admins, but the level of authorization is not that easy to handle or manage."
Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Jenkins is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. 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 Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and IBM Rational Build Forge, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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