Jenkins

Jenkins

Jenkins

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Jenkins	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Jenkins is an open source automation server. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into a continuous delivery hub for any project.	N/A

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Jenkins

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Jenkins
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Yes
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No

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Community Pulse
	Jenkins
Considered Both Products	Jenkins Verified User Employee Chose Jenkins One of the most important factors for selecting Jenkins would be the cost. Since Jenkins is opensource, there is a good amount saved from licensing and software procurement costs. Apart from cost, Jenkins is easy to understand and there is wide range of documentation and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Jenkins Bitbucket building was very slow, in order to improve that you have to upgrade to spend double or more minutes per build minute. The GUI was also very slow in updating on the progress of the builds, making things rather confusing. GitLab worked a bit better in my opinion, but … Incentivized Helpful? JJ Joshua Jordan Sr Systems Engineer Chose Jenkins Overall, Jenkins is the easiest platform for someone who has no experience to come in and use effectively. We can get a junior engineer into Jenkins, give them access, and point them in the right direction with minimal hand-holding. The competing products I have used (TravisCI/G… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Jenkins GitLab CI and GitHub Actions are other powerful options in the market also with a rising popularity and high interoperability with their respective platform. But Jenkins is still a good option for complex pipelines that require scripting and logic. Also, Jenkins uses as runtime … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Jenkins Jenkins is very easy to use, open source tool. Its better for simple build and deployments. Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Arsalan Niazi Sr. Lead Devops Engineer Chose Jenkins I have used Spinnaker as a CD tool. Though it's a very powerful CD tool we still needed Jenkins for CI, so to save some hassle for us we opt Jenkins solely. Incentivized Helpful? Damon Darling Engineering Manager Chose Jenkins Nomad used for deployment with Jenkins build server. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose Jenkins Didn't really check other tools in detail since Jenkins served all our requirements and has been hugely popular. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Jenkins Honestly, we use Jenkins for pretty much everything exclusively, so it's hard to compare. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Jenkins It's mostly stable and well-known within the DevOps community. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Jenkins We have not evaluated other similar products. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Mintz CEO Chose Jenkins Both Jenkins and TeamCity do a good job of automating CI/CD. Jenkins runs much leaner than TeamCity - it only needs about a Gig of free memory, whereas TeamCity needs a fat 4 Gig free. Many tasks in Jenkins yml config can be very cumbersome, especially running local and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Jenkins Jenkins is the only solution that we've tried that just automatically generates builds. Incentivized Helpful? SHEETAL KUMAR MAURYA Engineering Technician Chose Jenkins Jenkins is easy to set up and supports a wide range of plugins. So any type of deployment is very easy. We can easily deploy Node, Angular, React, Java, Python, etc. Projects. We can also provide different credentials to different employees. So easy to track what is done by … Helpful? DW Dodd Weisenberger Software Engineering Manager Chose Jenkins Team services, while very similar, did not really have that much more added features for the much higher price tag. The team has moved over to the subscription-based Visual Studio so we may be reevaluating this solution as now it is part of our subscription and no longer an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Jenkins I don't have any experience with alternatives to Jenkins. Incentivized Helpful? Richard Rout Software Developer Chose Jenkins Originally Jenkins was selected because it was the best around, but it has since been outclassed by more specific services or cloud-based services and tools that will do all of the heavy lifting for you. Jenkins still has a use case - but it's hard to argue the additional … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Jenkins The big difference between Jenkins and other alternative tools is that Jenkins is open source and it’s free. Jenkins is very much about simple functionality. It’s a general CI tool that offers basic automation. It’s the most common CI tool on the market with a large community … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Jenkins We went with drone.io ultimately for its first class support for container based workloads. Incentivized Helpful? TN trang nguyen Software Engineer Chose Jenkins We considered using Gitlab, but after some comparing, we found Jenkins was better in every way! Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Cauwels Vice President Chose Jenkins Jenkins is the only tool I would consider using for CTCI deployment. Its plugins make it easy to customize to any environment you can conjure up and will always be custom fit to your needs as a DevOps engineer. Other tools have better support but lack the customizability and … Incentivized Helpful? MC Mark Carpenter Engineer 3 Chose Jenkins Microsoft Azure includes Azure Pipelines as part of its suite of tools. It is an adequate tool but tends to be overly complicated. I find that Jenkins is a much simpler tool to use. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Continuous integration Pro Plugins available Pro Third party
Top Cons	Minus User interface Minus Learning curve Minus User management

Best Alternatives
	Jenkins
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Enterprises	GitLab Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Jenkins
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (72 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (6 ratings)
Performance	8.9 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	6.6 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Jenkins
Likelihood to Recommend	Open Source Jenkins is a highly customizable CI/CD tool with excellent community support. One can use Jenkins to build and deploy monolith services to microservices with ease. It can handle multiple "builds" per agent simultaneously, but the process can be resource hungry, and you need some impressive specs server for that. With Jenkins, you can automate almost any task. Also, as it is an open source, we can save a load of money by not spending on enterprise CI/CD tools. Incentivized Muhammad Arsalan Niazi Sr. Lead Devops Engineer Read full review
Pros	Open Source Automated Builds: Jenkins is configured to monitor the version control system for new pull requests. Once a pull request is created, Jenkins automatically triggers a build process. It checks out the code, compiles it, and performs any necessary build steps specified in the configuration. Unit Testing: Jenkins runs the suite of unit tests defined for the project. These tests verify the functionality of individual components and catch any regressions or errors. If any unit tests fail, Jenkins marks the build as unsuccessful, and the developer is notified to fix the issues. Code Analysis: Jenkins integrates with code analysis tools like SonarQube or Checkstyle. It analyzes the code for quality, adherence to coding standards, and potential bugs or vulnerabilities. The results are reported back to the developer and the product review team for further inspection. Incentivized Damon Darling Engineering Manager Read full review
Cons	Open Source The UI could be slightly better, it feels kind of like the 90s, but it works well. An easier way to filter jobs other than views on the dashboard. An easier way to read the console logs when tests do fail. Incentivized LK Lisa Krol Quality Assurance Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Open Source We have a certain buy-in as we have made a lot of integrations and useful tools around jenkins, so it would cost us quite some time to change to another tool. Besides that, it is very versatile, and once you have things set up, it feels unnecessary to change tool. It is also a plus that it is open source. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Open Source Jenkins streamlines development and provides end to end automated integration and deployment. It even supports Docker and Kubernetes using which container instances can be managed effectively. It is easy to add documentation and apply role based access to files and services using Jenkins giving full control to the users. Any deviation can be easily tracked using the audit logs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	Open Source No, when we integrated this with GitHub, it becomes more easy and smart to manage and control our workforce. Our distributed workforce is now streamlined to a single bucket. All of our codes and production outputs are now automatically synced with all the workers. There are many cases when our in-house team makes changes in the release, our remote workers make another release with other environment variables. So it is better to get all of the work in control. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Open Source As with all open source solutions, the support can be minimal and the information that you can find online can at times be misleading. Support may be one of the only real downsides to the overall software package. The user community can be helpful and is needed as the product is not the most user-friendly thing we have used. Incentivized DW Dodd Weisenberger Software Engineering Manager Read full review
Implementation Rating	Open Source It is worth well the time to setup Jenkins in a docker container. It is also well worth to take the time to move any "Jenkins configuration" into Jenkinsfiles and not take shortcuts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Open Source Overall, Jenkins is the easiest platform for someone who has no experience to come in and use effectively. We can get a junior engineer into Jenkins, give them access, and point them in the right direction with minimal hand-holding. The competing products I have used (TravisCI/GitLab/Azure) provide other options but can obfuscate the process due to the lack of straightforward simplicity. In other areas (capability, power, customization), Jenkins keeps up with the competition and, in some areas, like customization, exceeds others. Incentivized JJ Joshua Jordan Sr Systems Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Open Source Faster Time-to-Market: Jenkins automate the build, testing, and deployment process, enabling faster feedback and continuous improvement. Improved Quality: Jenkins automatically run unit tests and integration tests, ensuring that code changes meet the necessary quality standards. Cost Savings: Jenkins is an open-source tool that is free to use Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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