CloudBees Continuous Integration (formerly the CloudBees Jenkins Platform) is a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) solution that extends Jenkins. Developed for on-premise installations, CloudBees CI offers stable releases with monthly updates, as well as additional proprietary tools and enterprise features to enhance the manageability and security of Jenkins. CloudBees CI helps administrators manage growing installations due to ever-increasing teams, projects and jobs while getting professional support on Jenkins.
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Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Jenkins CloudBees Platform is being used as the main orchestrator for all CI builds along with part usage in doing deployment orchestrator. CloudBees is being used with user personal agents along with common agents to be used across the platform. Using groovy written pipelines gives us a highly customizable CI-CD environment with all the features of enterprise architecture tools like user management, etc.
Pros
Pipeline configuration
User Management
Credenitals Management per job
Permissions per project
Continuous Integration and delivery features
Cons
File or Workspace Management
Agent configurations at master level
Better Support for issues in product
Most Important Features
Continuous Integration of builds
Customizable pipelines
Credential Management
Return on Investment
Positive - Handles number of requests
Positive - Customizations of pipelines helps integrate many type of frameworks
Negative - Cache management on agents for dependencies downloaded
Positive - credential management helps reduce configurations to be done for each project job at manual level
Alternatives Considered
IBM UrbanCode Deploy, GitLab and Digital.ai Release (formerly XebiaLabs XL Release)
Other Software Used
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Digital.ai Release (formerly XebiaLabs XL Release), Atlassian Crowd, Bitbucket, Jira Work Management (Jira Core), JFrog Artifactory
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Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)