We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Build Forge and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."Very good reporting features."
"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."
"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."
"Jenkins optimizes the CI/CD process, enhances automation, and ensures efficiency and management of our build and deployment pipeline."
"We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit."
"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."
"For business needs, Jenkins is the most relevant choice because it can be self-hosted, the price is good, it’s robust, and requires almost no effort for maintenance."
"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."
"Jenkins's open-based framework is very valuable."
"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more advanced integrations."
"I would like to see even more integrations included in the next release."
"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."
"The learning curve is quite steep at the moment."
"Better and easy-to-use integration with Docker would be an improvement."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"Jenkins is an open-source solution, and people tend to stay on the same version for a long time. When you look for an answer on Google, you often find something that doesn't relate to your implementation. The plugins are both the aspect of Jenkins and also one of the worst because the plugins can have different versions, so it's hard to figure out how to solve the problems."
"The documentation could be more friendly, and more examples of how to use it."
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IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 18th in Build Automation while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 9.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Great reporting features and very functional". 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". IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Bamboo and Digital.ai Release , whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, Tekton and Harness.
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