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AWS CodeStar

1,601 views|1,076 comparisons
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Jenkins

Read 83 Jenkins reviews
6,896 views|5,921 comparisons
88% willing to recommend
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Rajeshkumar Gone
A good web development solution that lacks in mobile development functionality
This solution has improved our organization with how much time it saves when coding.
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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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    Anonymous User
    I generally find TeamCity a lot more intuitive than Jenkins.
    Moving to TeamCity from Jenkins At work, we’re slowly migrating from Jenkins to TeamCity in the hope of ending some of our recurring problems with continuous integration. My use of Jenkins prior to this job has been almost strictly on a personal basis, although I pretty much only use Travis nowadays. The biggest difference upon initial inspection is that TeamCity is far more focused on validating individual commits rather than certain types of tests. Jenkins’ front page presents information that is simply not useful in a non-linear development environment, where people are often working in vastly different directions. How many of the previous tests passed/failed is not really salient information in this kind of situation. Running specific tests for individual commits on TeamCity is far more trivial in terms of interface complexity than Jenkins. TeamCity just involves clicking the ”…” button in the corner on any test type (although I wish it wasn’t so easy to click “Run” by accident). I generally find TeamCity a lot more intuitive than Jenkins out of the box. There’s a point at which you feel that if you have to scour the documentation to do anything remotely complex in an application, you’re dealing with a bad interface. One disappointing thing in both is that inter-branch merges improperly trigger e-mails to unrelated committers. I suppose it is fairly difficult to determine who to notify about failure in situations like these, though. It seems like TeamCity pulls up the… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Which AWS solution would you choose - CodeStar or CodePipeline?
    Top Answer:Both AWS solutions deliver solid options, with uniquely different features. AWS CodeStar allows for quick development, building, and deployments of apps. It also provides web application and web… more »
    How does Tekton compare with Jenkins?
    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 »
    What do you like most about Jenkins?
    Top Answer:Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jenkins?
    Top Answer:It is an open source.
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    Ranking
    14th
    out of 41 in Build Automation
    Views
    1,601
    Comparisons
    1,076
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
    0
    Rating
    N/A
    2nd
    out of 41 in Build Automation
    Views
    6,896
    Comparisons
    5,921
    Reviews
    39
    Average Words per Review
    386
    Rating
    7.8
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    Also Known As
    CodeStar
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    Overview

    AWS CodeStar is a cloud‑based development service that provides the tools you need to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS. With AWS CodeStar, you can set up your entire continuous delivery toolchain in minutes, allowing you to start releasing code faster. AWS CodeStar makes it easy for your whole team to work together securely, with built-in role-based policies that allow you to easily manage access and add owners, contributors, and viewers to your projects. Each AWS CodeStar project comes with a unified project dashboard and integration with Atlassian JIRA software, a third-party issue tracking and project management tool. With the AWS CodeStar project dashboard, you can easily track your entire software development process, from a backlog work item to production code deployment.

    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
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    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
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    AWS CodeStar is ranked 14th in Build Automation while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. AWS CodeStar is rated 0.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. 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 CodeStar is most compared with AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, Microsoft Azure DevOps and AWS Amplify, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Tekton.

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