We performed a comparison between Digital.ai Release and Jenkins 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."The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."
"The most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."
"The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."
"Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub, and the automation for deployment."
"Jenkins can be used for elastic management, if you have any sensitive data or credentials you can use them across the environment. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and can be used across multiple use cases."
"Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product."
"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."
"Continuous Integration. Jenkins can integrate with almost any systems used for application development and testing, with its plugins."
"The simplicity of Jenkins and the evolving ecosystem of Jenkins are most valuable. Today, you do not have to write a pipeline from scratch. The library functionality of Jenkins helps you to bring all those in ready-made, and you also get the best practices for them. That is a great feature of Jenkins, and that is why it is being used significantly."
"It is easy to use."
"The solution is a little bit expensive."
"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."
"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."
"Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on."
"Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."
"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."
"Jenkins could simplify the user interface a little bit because it sometimes creates too many features cramped in the UI."
"We need more licensed product integrations."
"It would be better if there were an option to remove its Java dependency. This would make it more compatible with other software, and it could be much better. At present, we have to depend on Java whenever we want to deploy agents."
"Developer documentation for plugins, plugin development, integrations: Sometimes it’s tricky to do pretty obvious things."
"Better and easy-to-use integration with Docker would be an improvement."
Digital.ai Release is ranked 10th in Build Automation with 3 reviews while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Digital.ai Release is rated 8.6, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Digital.ai Release writes "Effectively automates deployments and applies one template across applications". 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". Digital.ai Release is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, IBM Rational Build Forge, Digital.ai Deploy and GitLab, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Chef. See our Digital.ai Release vs. Jenkins report.
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