Amazing CI Tool
August 29, 2017

Amazing CI Tool

Linda McDonald | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Jenkins

Jenkins is used as a development only tool as a manual as well as continuous integration tool with hooks into Artifactory. We have 15 build machines supporting Windows, Mac OSX and Linus Operating Systems.
  • Creating a basic build job is quick and painless.
  • Jenkins integrates with source control and Artifactory extremely well.
  • There are so many plugins that just about anything is possible.
  • Quite a few plugins have been discontinued recently due to security flaws.
  • Slaves often get disconnected for no apparent reason and have had to write our own code to check and bring them back online automatically when needed.
  • Consistent builds using the same dependencies and same steps every time. Much better than building on a developer's machine.
Jenkins supports multi-platforms quite well and that is the main reason why it was initially chosen.
Jenkins is a wonderful tool for all levels of developers allowing many plugins to be added and scripts can be written to account for any customizations needed. I am not familiar with the pipelines functionality but hope to start using it soon for continuous delivery.