Item: Bamboo
Rating: 10
Author: Milan Shah

Overall Satisfaction with Bamboo

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bamboo is being used for automating our build process e.g., achieving continuous integration (CI) in a dev and test environment. This is being used by our specific department and will be used by other departments over the time. Bamboo has helped us to streamline continuous integration, branch merging. And with integration with Active Directory and JIRA we can get an excellent tracking.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy installation
Integration with Atlasian products
Simple build configuration

Cons

More cost efective plugins
Slows as user base and builds increases
Granular email notification

Return on Investment

Better CI saved us time
Better Code quality
Multiple users were abel to work due to CI

Alternatives Considered

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
Notification and tracking aspects
Ability to create multiple plans, build integration
Ability to drill down from a nice UI into a raw log file also helped

Other Software Used

JIRA Software, JIRA Service Desk, Atlassian Confluence, Rackspace

Likelihood to Recommend

We had multiple teams working on the same code base so we wanted a good CI and well-defined plans and triggers to make sure bad code is not committed,
Easy to use UI helped us to get new resources easily onboard
Bamboo helped us to execute the build on specific triggers making sure they are compliant

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Easy to Set Up, Great CI