Jenkins Valuable Features
The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration between different tools.
View full review »With Jenkins, the pipeline will take your code from any versioning system like GitHub or Bitbucket. All the security scans can happen in one go and then all the tests also get run. You can just build one container in it and deploy it.
View full review »Jenkins is a very good automation tool for building and deploying CI/CD. It is a good building tool and is the most popular tool for Java and microservices projects. Jenkins has a lot of built-in packages and tools.
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Jenkins
March 2024
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The most valuable features of the solution are the vast number of resources available online to all users and that it is open source.
View full review »I like that Jenkins integrates seamlessly with GitHub, and it's able to clone a lot of repositories. There is also a workflow sequence where I can write my script so that it goes through a particular workflow channel and all the scripts run.
Jenkins offers many environment variables, allowing me to customize it and deploy in various environments without too many changes to the record. It's fairly sophisticated in that sense.
Jenkins optimizes the CI/CD process, enhances automation, and ensures efficiency and management of our build and deployment pipeline. It is easy for somebody to learn to use Jenkins.
View full review »My core work does not involve the use of Jenkins. It is something we use in the deployment process. Basically, the solution is used for interface upload and module deployment.
View full review »The performance is fine. With the huge chunk of connectors that it has, you can literally connect to anything, and you can add anything in the pipeline. The connector parts are seamlessly able to integrate into different products and systems. That is the best part.
The initial setup is pretty simple.
It's stable.
Whatever is commonly used and whatever I have required, I have always found that Jenkins has integration with those platforms. I'm fully satisfied on that front.
View full review »I like that you can find a wide range of plugins for Jenkins.
View full review »The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub and the automation for deployment.
Jenkins has a good user interface, and it is also able to write scripts.
View full review »Jenkins is a very mature product.
It has got a lot of support as far as integrating Jenkins with other tools is concerned.
There are a lot of plugins as well if you want to enable any feature or any automation as part of your delivery pipeline. There are a lot of plugins, actually, which are available both as part of an open-source as well as a commercial ecosystem.
It is easy to configure and easy to scale as well.
The initial setup is easy.
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reviewer1652133
Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features I have found are it can integrate other services as a plugin. For example, if you want to integrate GitHub, or third-party tools, such as Prisma scan, you can have them as plugins and you start using them.
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.
View full review »We really appreciate that this solution is plug and play. When coding in the version control system, this product completes the build process automatically.
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Shubham Gupta
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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.
The solution is quite scalable and user-friendly. It's very easy to learn.
The initial setup is straightforward.
It's stable.
The solution can scale.
It has good documentation to help with troubleshooting.
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SikkandarBadusha
Snr Tech Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
When we have manual tasks, we have to depend on multiple technical teams. With Jenkins, we can bring all the technologies together by the click of a button. We can see results without having to depend on different teams. Jenkins makes life easy for the database and DevOps teams.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its open source.
View full review »I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast.
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AshutoshSharma
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
From a deployment perspective, we don't require any passwords or any permissions and all. Everything we can do from Jenkins.
Whenever something fails, so we have the facility to check the logs. Based on that, we can find the solutions and we can fix things.
The initial setup is simple.
The stability of Jenkins is good.
The dashboards are very good.
The solution has been very easy to use.
We have found that the solution offers very good, very clear documentation. Everything is laid out well and easy to explain to a new user.
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Mike Colarusso
Head of Infrastructure at DriveWealth Technologies
The best thing about Jenkins is that it's such an open community, and it has a bazillion plugins which is a neat feature. Anything you want to do, someone else has probably already done it.
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Ashwini Doshetty
Senior Software Tester at SMARTe Inc
Pipelines are the most valuable feature. We mostly work on pipelines; it's only because we have to verify the nightly build sign to see whether it is correctly done or not. So, for that kind of function, we usually work on the technical side.
View full review »We mostly enjoy the multi-branch pipeline support. We have multiple branches regarding, for example, the production environments. In this environment, we can use Jenkins for the deployment and integration of multiple branches.
The deploying and assessing of the development of our code and our application has been really useful.
It's getting a bit easier for us to use Jenkins, and it is really helping us.
The solution is stable.
It can scale easily.
Jenkins is pretty flexible and integrates with many products. As of now in the market, there is no vendor dependency. They are providing a lot of plugins, so it's not very difficult to integrate with others.
View full review »The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features. We can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections.
We can access a history of the different deployments so that we know whenever we have an issue. Problems are well documented so we can actually go back into your deployment history when necessary.
Jenkins is the most widely used development tool, so there are many plugins and it's easy to integrate. There is a large user base to provide community support, which I find very valuable. If I need to find a better way to do something, I can always get help from the community. Automation is about thinking outside of the box, and other users are constantly adding new plugins.
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SandeepChukkapalli
Senior Operations Engineer at Wells Fargo
Jenkins' most valuable feature is Pipeline.
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Abhilash Jain
DevOps engineer at HSBC
The solution is an integration tool and that is its value; we are able to integrate a lot of tools, whether it's Nexus for building automation, for plugins or repositories. This is what makes it a powerful tool. The most beneficial thing is being able to do everything with just one click, which was not possible previously when any changes needed to be carried out manually. Jenkins enables you to log in to multiple servers and it runs automatically on all your servers.
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Jojo John
Senior Developer at SmartStream Technologies ltd.
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.
View full review »The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script.
View full review »Jenkins is very easy to use. It has a lot of integrations.
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Akanksha Kumari
Software Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins.
It is a stable solution and is generally scalable.
View full review »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.
Jenkins also helps you to be agnostic to cloud providers.
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reviewer1483710
Software Engineering Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The auto-schedule feature is valuable. Another valuable feature is that Jenkins does not trigger a build when there is no change in any of the systems. Jenkins also supports most of the open-source plug-ins.
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Bibhu Ashis Jena
Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
- Continuous Integration. Jenkins can integrate with almost any systems used for application development and testing, with its plugins.
- It is open source and can be hosted on-premise.
- Because of its wide usage and support forums, one can easily find solutions to any issues they might face.
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.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud.
View full review »Jenkins has excellent task planning features.
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Sheetal Prabhu
Senior Team Lead at Peristent Systems
The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful.
View full review »The Jenkins Job DSL plug-in is the most valuable.
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reviewer1670496
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We were initially SQL-based until we moved to object-oriented language and started hosting our code on Jenkins. The main benefit for us is the automation and we've done it in such a way that you only need to run one build that triggers itself and the rest of the builds downstream. We're moving most of our builds over to Jenkins because of all the automation it offers. It has a good interface, is reliable, and saves time.
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reviewer1727238
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Jenkins is the logs it provides - these are very helpful in understanding error conditions so we can see where the problem lies and go in and check it. Another useful feature is the GUI, which estimates how long a particular model will need to be executed. It's also very easy to understand for newcomers.
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Manikandan Dharmaraj
Staff Engineer - Product and Platform Engineering at Altimetrik (Deployed at FORD)
Jenkins's open-based framework is very valuable. Most of the time, we go open-based and use any test automation, not only for the automation framework but for the developers. They will trigger the jobs also using Jenkins with blue ocean, but there is a cost, and anything you need can be related to Java. For example, if you want to build your application and deploy it, Jenkins takes one day compared with CA or other circles, and in addition, the bamboo Jenkins is a popular solution.
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reviewer1748100
Cloud Security Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable aspect of Jenkins is pipeline customization. Jenkins provides a declarative pipeline as well as a scripted pipeline. The scripted pipeline uses a programming language. You can customize it to your needs, so we use Jenkins because other solutions like Travis and Spinnaker don't allow much customization. We can only use the declarative pipelines they provide.
We can use Jenkins through the GUI and create customized methods. Its GUI is just like Java, so we can make our classes and define our custom methodologies. We can do whatever we want and customize as much as we wish to in any programming language.
View full review »I have to take the source code, build it, and test it with SonarQube. After passing it, I make the container, and with this container, we deploy to Kubernetes.
View full review »It's open-source and free to use.
The learning curve for Jenkins is not a big deal. It has a lot of community posts and support.
The initial setup is simple.
We have found the solution to be stable.
It is my understanding that the solution can scale.
View full review »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.
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reviewer1454061
Performance Test Line manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features of Jenkins are its ease of use and good plugins available. You are able to connect to a lot of solutions.
View full review »Open source community with many plugins & flexibility as an automation platform.
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Ibrahim Rasras
Lead solution architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
It's fantastic. I like it, and I have no problem with it. It's very small, easy to use, and very straightforward.
View full review »I used it for building Java applications. It provides some excellent plug-ins like Repository connector plugin, Sonar Qube plug in and J-Unit plugin.
View full review »The feature of this product that is most valuable to me is the robust community support plugins.
View full review »It is open source, flexible, scalable, and easy to use. It is easy to maintain for the administrator. It is a continuous integration tool, and its enterprise version is quite mature.
It has good integrations and plug-ins. Azure DevOps can also be integrated with Jenkins.
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Rob Heavey
Software Developer at R.L. Heavey & Co Ltd
A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for.
View full review »The most valuable features of Jenkins are the ease of use and the information about how to use the features is readily available on the internet. Additionally, with the solution, I can use other reporting tools, such as Flow.
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PauloBorges
Senior IT Professional at Novabase
1) Easy to install and setup (including setup to run as windows service)
2) Free and always available alternative to any other build solutions
3) Relatively simple and intuitive UI
4) Big number of pretty useful plugins
5) Easily configurable and scalable
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Arwan Ahmad Khoiruddin
Software Tester at a tech vendor
We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit.
View full review »I can build slaves and extensions through plugins.
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Wasim Akram
Managing Director at Technocure
The most valuable features are plugins that make my server highly available.
View full review »I have found the following features extremely helpful.
- It is open source & user-friendly.
- It can deploy code instantly & generate test reports. The requirements for continuous integration and continuous deployment can be configured manually.
- Integration work is automated.
- It can be integrated with other major tools.
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Axblade
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
- Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes.
- Programmable pipelines: In recent versions, Jenkins has a Groovy Sandbox where build scripts execute. I have never seen that powerful a tool in CI solutions yet. On other platforms you can use shell scripts, but Jenkins' solution is much better in terms of readability and portability. And given that you can create your own libraries for the Jenkins Pipelines, it becomes much more powerful and DRYer, simplifying work of DevOps and build engineers.
- Brand new Blue Ocean UI: Jenkins used to have a pretty outdated UI. Now, you can use the Blue Ocean plugin to make it nice, clean, and modern-looking. Also, it has very good integration with Pipelines (basically it is built to use Pipelines).
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Oscar Urrego
Software Test Automation Engineer at Colpatria
The most valuable feature is its ability to connect with different tools and technologies.
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- Publishing HTML reports
- Emails on builds
- Active Directory
- Role Based and Project Based Matrix Authorisation
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reviewer1595568
Technical Content Writer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
It is easy to use.
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SunilKumar24
DevOps Consultant at Nissan Digital
In this solution, you can write scripts and put job parameters in them with time and dates when to activate. We can create a web book that is automatically configured. The automated elements are easy to use and you can put them into your server. Additionally, there are plenty of plugins available. You can use the plugins to push your code into a target or container. There are many features available in this solution.
View full review »Jenkins: pipeline/delivery pipeline and we can use shell script in the configuration. Jenkins has a lot of plugins.
TeamCity: We can run automaton tests.
View full review »- CD/CI pipeline
- Different types of jobs, such as Pipeline, Build, Freestyle, Maven, etc.
- DSL: Groovy for complicated pipeline flow.
- Tons of plugins
- Is able to integrate with other systems.
- Free
- Easy to use Jenkins Docker.
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reviewer1082187
Software Quality Assurance Team Lead with 11-50 employees
Currently, using Jenkins for automatic testing is the most valuable feature for us.
It is very useful for us to be able to collect and manage automatic processing pipelines.
- Extensibility
- Usability
- Customization
- Automation
It's very useful when you want to automate different processes from beginning to end.
View full review »- Continuous build and testing
- Distributed execution of build and test jobs
It is essential for software development and team collaboration. Without this tool, we would be helpless.
View full review »- Scalability
- Controllability
- Organization of jobs
There are a large number of plugins available for integration with third party systems.
View full review »In Jenkins v.2, the most useful feature is the Pipeline plugin. The reason why I think so is that you can build your own workflow with Groove and the plugin has many useful features like parallel executing, running commands, etc. and even imagine implementing your own features on Groove.
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Jenkins
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Jenkins. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
770,292 professionals have used our research since 2012.