Overview
What is Bamboo?
Australian company Atlassian offers Bamboo, a continuous integration server.
Excellent Collaboration solution for IT Teams
Bamboo a great software for streamlining goal setting, employee reviews and hiring.
Good CI/CD solution for your engineering tool chain
Bamboo Review
Bamboo useful addition to Atlassian stack
A lightweight tool for CI/CD
Bamboo for Enterprise solutions
Bamboo for Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration
Bamboo - Continuous Integration
Bamboo? Woohoo!
Review for Bamboo
A consultant view on Bamboo
Bamboo Review
Easy to Set Up, Great CI
Pricing
What is Bamboo?
Australian company Atlassian offers Bamboo, a continuous integration server.
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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Reviews
(1-21 of 21)- Straightforward/easy to use web interface
- Wide variety of tasks and plugins available
- Built-in artifact repository
- Not aware of newer cloud deployment patterns such as blue/green
- Pipeline-as-code (Java Specs, yml) can be frustrating to use
- Difficult to share variables/secrets between build projects and deployment projects
- Difficult to adhere to segregation of duties requirements using access controls
Excellent Collaboration solution for IT Teams
- Tracking
- Integration with other Atlassian products
- Automation
- Reliability
- Support needs to be improve
- Dashboard is a little limited
- Easy to use interface when submitting, editing, and reviewing goals.
- It offers a streamlines a communication process between individuals and reminders.
- None, I like the software!
Good CI/CD solution for your engineering tool chain
Bamboo Review
- Sharing of source code.
- Compliant source code.
- Administration could be simplified.
- Rights more granular.
Bamboo useful addition to Atlassian stack
- Pipelines as code
- Build pipelines
- Deployment pipelines
- Deployment plans are a little rudimentary
- The interface can be disorganized at times, especially the admin interface
A lightweight tool for CI/CD
- It is fairly light weight and can be easily customized
- Very easy to set up
- Integrates well with other Atlassian products
- Additional cost if you want agents on other cloud services
- Requires a dedicated machine and can require a decent amount of processing power depending on the agent you are running
Bamboo for Enterprise solutions
- Easily integrated with Bitbucket
- Easily integrated with JIRA
- Fairly simple interface
- Interface felt as if it was bolted on and not contiguous
- Not great at integrating with Microsoft Tools
- Not great for deployment to IIS
Bamboo for Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment - you can use Bamboo to automatically build and deploy whenever there are changes in the source code.
- Continuous Integration - by integrating the automated tests and the integration tests before deploying you make sure you know immediately if the latest code fits into the whole scheme of apps.
- Integration with Jira and Bitbucket.
- Flexibility with the program language used for builds: Maven, Ant, PowerShell, any command line tools.
- When you have more complex applications using different technologies, it can be a pain to initially set up all scripts for deploy and test.
- Flexibility to use many build technologies at a lower level comes also with a problem that sometimes it is difficult to see from the interface what exactly is wrong with the build if the scripts are not handling errors very well. This can take lot of time to debug.
- May take some time for the team to learn the product and use it at its full potential.
Bamboo - Continuous Integration
- Seemless integration with Atlassian products
- Easy to set up and use
- Helpful support from Atlassian
- Plugins are expensive
- Not open-source
- Community of users is much smaller than competitors such as Jenkins
Bamboo? Woohoo!
- Continuous Integration - Bamboo kicks off builds with each check in to our source control system, enabling faster consumption of changes, and quicker turnaround times when we encounter a problem.
- Extensibility - Bamboo is capable of triggering multiple additional processes on completion of a build, including integration tests, deployment tests, and the like. This extensibility took us from a scheduled based system to a trigger based system with little time waste.
- Suite Integration - Bamboo's easy integration with the rest of the Atlassian suite makes for huge efficiency gains. Being able to see which check in triggered the build, as well as seeing what JIRA issues went into that check-in makes for complete traceability.
- Cost - Obviously, purchasing licensing for the Atlassian toolset is more expensive than a roll your own approach with other open source packages, but the tight integration amongst the tools makes up for that cost.
- Plugins - Bamboo does not have quite the rich ecosystem of plugins that other open source tools, like Jenkins does.
- Agents - We preferred the build agent model offered by Jenkins because of its far cheaper costs. Because of the costs of Atlassian agents, we are limited in the number of agents we deploy.
Review for Bamboo
- Integrated with Make and Ant
- Integrated with other Atlatissan products
- Not free after 10 jobs. They will charge money when you have more than 10 jobs.
A consultant view on Bamboo
- It does perfectly well what is it supposed to do, build code on a centralized server.
- You can run automated tests on any new code you build.
- It can look hard to set up at first, because of the needed integrations with other tools.
- Not interesting to use without other Atlassian tools.
- Maybe more options for tests, some could be automated.
Bamboo Review
- Returns extensive logging from the called application.
- Easy to use.
- Many task options
- Not much support from the java/jdk side. Had some memory issues where the jvm was pegging the application server. Once identified and resolved, haven't had a single issue.
Easy to Set Up, Great CI
- Easy installation
- Integration with Atlasian products
- Simple build configuration
- More cost efective plugins
- Slows as user base and builds increases
- Granular email notification
Bam!Boo!
- 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.
- Unclear what different levels of granularity should be used for. How is a Job and a Task and a Build and a Project different? It requires a consultant to help not make a mess of this. It takes a while to search all the Projects in CDK, there are way way too many.
- Not particularly useful compared to free open source solutions, unless you buy into other Atlassian products. I.e. most of the value is in the integration
- Bamboo is not great at estimating how long a build will take. The progress bar for a build completes long before it it is actually done.
Bamboo - when hosting your own CI solution is your preference
- Integrations with the rest of the Atlassian suite - specifically bitbucket.
- Fast, automated build workflow...very hands-off for us.
- The soon-to-be lack of a cloud solution has lost us as a customer. :(
Bamboo is for enterprise, but not for everyone.
- Rapidly setting up build plans
- Being a central hub into all activity your company is a part of
- Offering an intuitive UI
- Allowing power-users to set up powerful CI/CD pipelines
- Unit testing FTW
- 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
- Bamboo builds our release branches and automatically merges them with our master branch if a build succeeds.
- Bamboo allows our developers to see if a build succeeds in their feature or bug fix branches before they merge it into a release branch.
- Bamboo builds our software immediately after a checkin and provides immediate feedback as to whether the build succeeds or fails.
- Bamboo configuration is done through the web interface and as a result cannot be versioned. It would be nice if the build configuration could be versioned.
- Sometimes it isn't obvious how to pass artifacts between build plans. This can be confusing when trying to put together a build plan that depends on a different build plan.
- It would be useful to be able to execute some jobs only in certain branches instead of for all branches. For instance, when using plan branches, we'd prefer to only push release branches to artifactory and not plan branches.
Great flexibility within Atlasssian product family
- Build automation - Bamboo gives almost too many ways to automate things via its partitioning of jobs and tasks to give the script builder and dev-ops flexibility.
- Continuous integration - Because of Atlasssian's well-known integrative software with other interfacing CD and CI tools, automation is as easy as a simple script to hook up the connections and automate things with ease.
- Continuous deployment - Triggers for sending complete builds to production or other test environments are quite configurable.
- Free open-source require application to use - Bamboo does offer a free option for open source projects though it requires the user to apply for it in order to use it past the free trial.
- Too many options - Supposing you are an end-user, the many different options are nauseating and can cause many headaches trying to debug.
- Pricey for small user base - You can try it for 30 days for $10 with no remote agents but one remote agent costs $800.
Bamboo has a clean friendly UI
- Provides a user-friendly UI compared to Jenkins
- Provides a dashboard where users can download artifacts
- Provides good status indicators and email notifications of build status/progress
- Doesn't have Jenkins' scaling abilities with their Swarm agents.
- Isn't as user-friendly as CircleCI.
- Is too centrally managed (probably more an indicator of our usage than the product though)...most companies let the developers have admin access to the build server.
- Doesn't have as many plugins as Jenkins to do various things like upload to servers, etc.