Bamboo

Bamboo

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Bamboo	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Australian company Atlassian offers Bamboo, a continuous integration server.	N/A

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	Bamboo
Considered Both Products	Bamboo Verified User Engineer Chose Bamboo 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Bamboo Bamboo's ability to integrate with Bitbucket and Jira (the other two key systems we use) pretty much sealed the deal on our decision to choose Bamboo over other alternatives. Being able to map every build result back to the relevant code changes and Jira issues are just too … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Domenico Senior Systems Administrator Chose Bamboo Jenkins is the only other we had briefly considered for continuous deployment type of products, but being open source could not get the same level of reliability and support offered from Bamboo's product maturity. Incentivized Helpful? Bayley Gaillard Site Reliability Engineer II Chose Bamboo Bamboo has a friendlier interface than either TeamCity or Jenkins and has better integration with Jira and Bitbucket Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Bamboo We looked at Bitbucket and some other providers but they did not have the full requirements that we needed from a customization perspective. We wanted customization while keeping a lot of the configurability intact. Helpful? Kyle Kochtan Technical Lead Chose Bamboo In the beginning we had selected Bamboo and were down the path of going all in for all of our projects. However after about a year we decided that Azure DevOps was better suited for our business needs. We are now in the process of migrating everything off of the Bamboo … Helpful? Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager Chose Bamboo We used Jenkins before for our projects. While Jenkins has an extensive plugins list that makes it more flexible to integrate it with other tools, we switched to Bamboo for nicer User Interface but mostly for the seamless integration with Jira and Bitbucket. Also Bamboo has more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Bamboo Bamboo is great tool when compared to the open-source alternative Jenkins, with mainly the same functionality in both it really shines with its integration of the Atlassian product line. Jenkins works really well with a huge community of users and plenty of plugins that are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Bamboo We chose Bamboo over Jenkins for 2 reasons - one, for its tight integration amongst all the products in the tool suite. We find explicit value in the traceability from JIRA issues all the way down to the Bamboo build that was triggered by the check in of those issues. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Bamboo Bamboo has these advantages while Asana does not: Easy to configure Easy to use Clean UI and easy permission controls Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Bamboo Jenkins works great, but Bamboo is just fantastic when integrated with other Atlassian tools. Since we were using JIRA and Bitbucket, we went for Bamboo. Incentivized Helpful? FC Frank Coulter Database Operations Manager Chose Bamboo Bamboo's seamless integration with Bitbucket made it a simple choice, and I couldn't be happier with its ease of use, logging, and reliability. Incentivized Helpful? Milan Shah Technical Architect Chose Bamboo We selected bamboo after a thorough review process, we considered the following aspects: Ease of use, cost, scalability, plugins, setup and maintenance, community and product support Made sure it integrated with JIRA and Confluence Incentivized Helpful? Erik Bean Web Developer Chose Bamboo I use bamboo because it is mandated as the CI/CD solution to use across the organization that I work for. If I were working on my own project, I would almost certainly use a free solution like Travis CI or just spin up my own build servers using Docker, AWS, or something like … Incentivized Helpful? Marc Smith CTO Chose Bamboo Bamboo won solely based on the fact we were "all-in" with Atlassian. TeamCity is now in the process of taking over as we transition off of Bamboo, and I think TeamCity stacks up nice against Bamboo thus far (too soon to tell). Incentivized Helpful? Tanner Lovelace Principal Software Engineer Chose Bamboo Bamboo integrates directly with our bug system (JIRA) and source control system (Bitbucket). It allows us to get what we need to done without worrying about how it works with our other systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Bamboo Bamboo is hands-down the best of these options if you rely on other products of Atlassian origin. Bamboo is not just built for teams, but teams-of-teams and teams of many workers. It has the administrative features you need to manage and maintain CI at scale. Enterprise model … Incentivized Helpful? Ken Yee Android Architect Chose Bamboo I didn't select Bamboo. I mentioned how it compared in other parts of this review, but to summarize: Pros: easier to use and cleaner UI Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Atlassian products Pro Continuous integration Pro Continuous deployment
Top Cons	Minus Open source Minus Java based Minus Cloud solution

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User Ratings
	Bamboo
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (21 ratings)
Usability	6.5 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Bamboo
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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Erik Bean Web Developer Read full review
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 Incentivized Jonathan Kempf, UXC UI Engineer Read full review
Usability	Atlassian Bamboo was fairly easy to navigate but in the end it always felt as if it was developed as a bolt-on and not a true group up user interface. There were multiple ways to get to everything and the path was never the same. So it was difficult for users to really get a feel of how to use the application. Kyle Kochtan Technical Lead Read full review
Support Rating	Atlassian Support for Bamboo has started lack a little over the years. Atlassian has been moving more towards Bitbucket Pipelines and away from the on-premise install of Bamboo. While the tool is still great, it may take a little bit of time to get a question answered by official support. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager Read full review
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