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We performed a comparison between Bamboo 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Bamboo vs. Tekton Report (Updated: May 2024).
771,212 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"In my experience Bamboo is scalable.""The most valuable features are compiling and deployment.""It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services.""The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration.""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.""Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance.""The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well.""It can do the CI pipeline well."

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"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.""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 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."

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Cons
"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 would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model.""Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement.""It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training.""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.""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.""The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance.""The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."

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"There might be occasional issues with storage or cluster-level logging, which can affect production.""Configuring Tekton requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, which can be difficult for developers.""It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."
  • "If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."
  • "The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."
  • "The price of Bamboo is reasonable."
  • "I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."
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  • "It is entirely open source and free of charge."
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    Comparison Review
    Anonymous User
    A biased and subjective comparison of Bamboo and Jenkins as CI servers for mobile development, based on practical experience with both. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Delivery, Distribution) has been around for quite a while. But surprisingly enough on a global scale it pretty much just got into its teen years in regards to mobile development. Well, subjectively, of course. You can see all levels of mobile CI these days. Some would still install builds from Xcode, others would have a quickly patched up build server under their desk. Xcode Bots meet the needs of yet another group of people. Travis CI is good and for open source projects it’s probably the best option. And guess what, I know few successful iOS development companies that develop apps for enterprise clients, and have no CI at all. The advanced level of CI would include distributed build systems with multiple build nodes, support for automated unit and UI tests, running tests on simulator and physical devices, automatic deployment to TestFlight, Hockey App, Over the Air, and much more. It becomes not just mobile development, but spans into areas like DevOps and others. Etsy’s blog post is somewhat outdated but still a very good example of where this path can take you. If you decide to take mobile CI under your total control, you have to pick a build server to start with. I personally have worked with Bamboo for 1.5 years and I’m dealing with Jenkins right now, so I have few insights… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.
    Top Answer:I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten.
    Top Answer:The tools and capabilities of the system are extensive. 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.
    Top Answer:When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very easy… more »
    Top Answer:Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively.
    Top Answer:It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges. This aspect could be enhanced for better efficiency. Additionally, the build time… more »
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    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    769
    Rating
    6.3
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    Overview
    Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

    Tekton is a powerful yet flexible Kubernetes-native open-source framework for creating continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems. It lets you build, test, and deploy across multiple cloud providers or on-premises systems by abstracting away the underlying implementation details.

    Sample Customers
    Neocleus, MuleSoft, Interspire
    The Home Depot, PayPal, Target, HSBC, McKesson, Oncology Venture
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company40%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Marketing Services Firm10%
    Non Tech Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Manufacturing Company16%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
    Buyer's Guide
    Bamboo vs. Tekton
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Bamboo vs. Tekton and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    771,212 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Bamboo is ranked 5th in Build Automation with 20 reviews while Tekton is ranked 4th in Build Automation with 3 reviews. Bamboo is rated 7.4, while Tekton is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of Bamboo writes "High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available". 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 ". Bamboo is most compared with GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness and AWS CodePipeline, whereas Tekton is most compared with GitLab, GitHub Actions, Harness, Travis CI and AWS CodePipeline. See our Bamboo vs. Tekton report.

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