We performed a comparison between Jenkins and Gitlab based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, GitLab comes out ahead of Jenkins. Our reviewers found that installation on Windows is not intuitive and its maintenance can be more demanding.
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"We're only using the basic features of GitLab and haven't used any advanced features. The solution works fine, so that's what we like about GitLab. We're party using GitHub and GitLab. We have a GitHub server, while we use GitLab locally or only within our team, and it works okay. We don't have any significant problems with the solution. We also found the straightforward setup, stability, and scalability of GitLab valuable."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit."
"Jenkins has a lot of built-in packages and tools."
"Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."
"Jenkins integrates with multiple tools like Bitbucket and makes life easier. We don't have to write a lot of code since a lot of libraries are available."
"Jenkins has excellent task planning features."
"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."
"The solution is scalable and has a large number of plugins that can help you scale it to your needs."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"It would be helpful if they had a bit more interactive UI."
"It could be cheaper."
"Centralized user management would be helpful."
"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."
"I think an integrated help button, that respected the context of the change/work in hand, would be a worthwhile improvement."
"Jenkins is an old product, and we encounter performance issues and slow response. Also, some of the plugins are not stable."
"They need to improve their documentation."
"Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."
GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". 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". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and GitHub CoPilot, whereas Jenkins is most compared with Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge, Tekton and Harness. See our GitLab vs. Jenkins report.
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