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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Atlassian Bamboo

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AAustralian company Atlassian offers Bamboo, a continuous integration server.

    $1,200

    1 remote agent

    GoCD

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AGoCD, from ThoughtWorks in Chicago, is an application lifecycle management and development tool.N/A

    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AvRealize Suite and vCloud Suite delivered a self-service consumption layer, an automation framework and self-driving Day 2 operations for VMware Cloud. The product is no longer available.

    $10

    per month per core

    Pricing
    Atlassian BambooGoCDvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    1 Remote Agent
    $1200
    5 Remote Agents
    $3200
    10 Remote Agents
    $5840
    25 Remote Agents
    $11,600
    100 Remote Agents
    $23,280
    250 Remote Agents
    $58,160
    500 Remote Agents
    $87,280
    1000 Remote Agents
    $133,840
    2000 Remote Agents
    $187,380
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    FCO Hosting Edition
    $10
    per month per core
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $10
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    $16
    per month per core
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $128
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    $1500
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    Unlimited
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Unlimited
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Contact Sales
    per month per core
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Contact Sales
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Atlassian BambooGoCDvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Atlassian BambooGoCDvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Atlassian
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtWorks
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Features
    Atlassian BambooGoCDvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of Atlassian Bamboo and GoCD and vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Atlassian Bamboo
    -
    Ratings
    GoCD
    -
    Ratings
    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Atlassian BambooGoCDvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.4
    (24 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Atlassian BambooGoCDvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    If you value integration over cost, Bamboo is clearly the way to go. It offers tight integration to the rest of the Atlassian suite, and when you need traceability from issue to build, Atlassian is the right way to go. However, if you find yourself needing to save on costs, you may consider taking an approach of rolling your own build system with open source alternatives, such as Jenkins, if you don't [mind] putting in a little extra elbow grease.
    Incentivized
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    ThoughtWorks
    Previously, our team used Jenkins. However, since it's a shared deployment resource we don't have admin access. We tried GoCD as it's open source and we really like. We set up our deployment pipeline to run whenever codes are merged to master, run the unit test and revert back if it doesn't pass. Once it's deployed to the staging environment, we can simply do 1-click to deploy the appropriate version to production. We use this to deploy to an on-prem server and also AWS. Some deployment pipelines use custom Powershell script for.Net application, some others use Bash script to execute the docker push and cloud formation template to build elastic beanstalk.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    It is most suited where there multi cloud platform as VCloud suite provides most 2 important licences i.e. Vsphere 9India's leading hypervisor) and Vrealize Suite which helps to automate and also simplies IT management by making the solution most agile, efficient and easy to use. If there is a simple environment with just few servers where there is need for only 2-3 VMs, i will not recommend this.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Levels of granularity. Organization has many projects that have many build plans that have many jobs that have many tasks, etc. And branch builds allow source control branches to be built separately.
    • Versatility. I can use bamboo to manage my Java, node, or .NET build plans. I can use it to spin up Windows or Linux build agents, or install it on a Mac to build there as well.
    • Bamboo integrates with other Atlassian products like Bitbucket, Stash, JIRA, etc. If a company commits to the entire Atlassian stack then work can be tracked through the whole development lifecycle which is really useful.
    Incentivized
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    ThoughtWorks
    • Pipeline-as-Code works really well. All our pipelines are defined in yml files, which are checked into SCM.
    • The ability to link multiple pipelines together is really cool. Later pipelines can declare a dependency to pick up the build artifacts of earlier ones.
    • Agents definition is really great. We can define multiple different kinds of environments to best suit our diverse build systems.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • One management platform for all the VMs across datacenters
    • Automation of IT management
    • Makes IT or Cloud management more agile and efficient.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • Extremely hard barrier to entry for non-backend developers
    • Blackbox makes it hard to customize functionality
    • The inability to add features without breaking core functionality
    • No cloud solution
    • Tasks cannot be put in if/else statements
    • No clear right way to form build plans
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    ThoughtWorks
    • UI can be improved
    • Location for settings can be re-arranged
    • API for setting up pipeline
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • There is nothing exactly like cons but one must should check all the features, it can be confusing at the times.
    • It can be expensive as compared to some other products available in the market.
    • Implementation can be little tricky, should done by Vmware engineer
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    Bamboo offers solid usability for teams looking for an integrated, scalable CI/CD solution, especially those using Atlassian tools. Its interface is intuitive for existing Atlassian users, and its focus on deployment automation makes it a strong option for continuous delivery. However, its complexity and cost may pose challenges for small teams or those new to CI/CD. Overall, Bamboo’s usability shines in environments where ease of integration and streamlined workflows are prioritized. Still, it may require more effort for teams unfamiliar with its setup or without dedicated resources.
    Incentivized
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    ThoughtWorks
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    Bamboo is a fairly small product but having said that it was fairly easy to get assistance. Especially for the small to easy things. Anything large or fairly complex was an issue finding detailed answers for. This caused a lot of trial and error on our part to try to find a solution.
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    ThoughtWorks
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    We selected Bamboo because its capabilities to integrate with other Atlassian products specially Jira Software, Bitbucket and in some useful scenarios with Confluence. Also, we found these pros important for us: great user interface, easily agent deployment, Docker compability, simply to maintain / manage, and straightforwardly integration with different notification platforms
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    ThoughtWorks
    GoCD is easier to setup, but harder to customize at runtime. There's no way to trigger a pipeline with custom parameters.
    Jenkins is more flexible at runtime. You can define multiple user-provided parameters so when user needs to trigger a build, there's a form for him/her to input the parameters.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    VCloud mostly provides cloud management platform, all others also provide the same plus some other features so, Vcloud can be little less expensive in comparison to other solutions available in market. Also, it's very easy to use and deploy and manage your cloud platform. It is widely used by mid scale as well as large scale companies.
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    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • It helped us achieve the Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration goals for our applications, a huge milestone that saved a lot of time for developers in making the builds and deployments and saved time for QA in running the automated tests.
    • Helped with DevOps: we moved the formal approval from the email to the system and allowed the approver to actually push the button for the production deployments.
    • Biggest positive impact of using Bamboo is that it improved our response time to customers and increased the frequency of our deliveries to them.
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    ThoughtWorks
    • ROI has been good since it's open source
    • Settings.xml need to be backed up periodically. It contains all the settings for your pipelines! We accidentally deleted before and we have to restore and re-create several missing pipelines
    • More straight forward use of API and allows filtering e.g., pull all pipelines triggered after this date
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Positive only- Vrealize suite helps is IT automation by making it cost-effective and efficient.
    • Less time is consumed by our IT administrators because of Automating process and they can do better monitoring
    • It can be really cost effective for if any company wants to make private cloud. It did the same with us as through vCloud we get all the VMware software required.
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