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We performed a comparison between Bamboo, IBM Rational Build Forge, and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.""The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community.""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.""In my experience Bamboo is scalable.""One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system.""It can do the CI pipeline well.""In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools.""The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

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"All features are useful. Our customer doesn't have any complaints about the tool. It works pretty well for what they want and what they need to do.""Very good reporting features."

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"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy.""It is very useful for us to be able to collect and manage automatic processing pipelines.""Jenkins is very easy to use.""The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub, and the automation for deployment.""Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product.""I am not aware of the available options in the market right now compared to Jenkins, but I am pretty much happy with the service that Jenkins is providing our company.""I love Jenkins. I like that you work on anything, and you make anything. Jenkins is very important for my team. I am satisfied with the product.""The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."

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Cons
"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added.""One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area.""Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement.""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.""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.""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.""It's a little outdated. It's three years old.""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."

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"Not user friendly for the layman.""Its logging can be improved. When something goes wrong, it is not always very easy to find the problem. It is hard to identify whether the problem is because of low memory in the server or some configuration in Rational Build Forge. The error logs are not very detailed, and they should provide more information. It should also have more integration with third-party tools. It would be great to have more integration with third-party tools."

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"The UI must be more user-friendly.""A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful.""The documentation on plugin development could be better: more examples. ​""Sometimes you have Jenkins restarting because of OOM errors.""The scriptwriting process could be improved in this solution in the future.""The user interface could be updated a little.""This solution would be improved with the inclusion of an Artifactory (Universal artifact repository manager).""Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on."

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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 a free product."
  • "Jenkins is open source."
  • "​It is free.​"
  • "Some of the add-ons are too expensive."
  • "It's free software with a big community behind it, which is very good."
  • "I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."
  • "Jenkins is open source and free."
  • "There is no cost. It is open source."
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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 →
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    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration.
    Top Answer:I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten.
    Top Answer:People know more about Jira than Bamboo. In general, people should know that Jira and Bamboo are similar solutions. The… more »
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    Top Answer:Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes.
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    Also Known As
    Rational Build Forge
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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.

    IBM Rational Build Forge is an adaptive execution framework that helps automate and standardize the software assembly process. Rational Build Forge helps teams standardize repetitive tasks, improve software quality and manage compliance mandates. This software scales to 25 seats. Rational Build Forge delivers:
    Flexibility - gives developers self-service access to preconfigured build processes from within their integrated development environment (IDE). You can add IBM Rational software products to further enhance automation, reporting and integration.
    Productivity - accelerates build and release cycles through iterative development, parallel processes and efficient use of hardware.
    Compliance - simplifies compliance management with self-documenting audit trails and role-based security.
    Compatibility - increases team efficiency with centralized build and release management using the tools you have today.

    Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

    Sample Customers
    Neocleus, MuleSoft, Interspire
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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company40%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Marketing Services Firm10%
    Non Tech Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Media Company9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Government6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise2%
    Large Enterprise78%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
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