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Jenkins as my Continuous Integration tool of choice
September 07, 2018

Jenkins as my Continuous Integration tool of choice

Ramendra Sahu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Jenkins

This tool made the development flow fluid. Standout features are the continuous integration and a variety of support offered for creating packages for a number of technologies like, Java, C#, C++, etc and across multiple platforms that makes releases easier for faster roll out of business functionalities . It also has hundreds of plugins that can help you setup continuous integration and continuous delivery tool chain in quick time. You can easily scale out Jenkins across multiple machines, and support simultaneous large number of builds, tests and deployments across multiple platforms.
  • There are plenty of plugins available which helps us automate most of the jobs.
  • You can do anything with Jenkins as there are a huge number of community plugins. There is a learning curve of course but after you've mastered it's quick sailing.
  • The ability to schedule jobs on the go for your software build is very useful.
  • I particularly don't like the user interface. There's a lot of scope for improvement. I would actually say a complete revamp is required.
  • It is quite time consuming and not intuitive to create a job.
  • The new build pipelines feature is good but needs to be refined and issues needs to be ironed out.
  • Has streamlined the build, release and deployment schedules with the automation it provides
  • Very easy to run automated tests and promote code to higher environments.
  • Scripting support helps to customize as per the organization's needs.
It is free, of course that's the best advantage. Great number of plugins. Largest active developer community among peer competitors. Very few competitors have got the pipelines features right as good as Jenkins.
It supports a rich set of plugins. The job configuration history plugin, for example, allows you to see history of past builds. Features are constantly getting enhanced with each release. Great active community support, which can help you if you are trying to do something new. Better than a lot of peers available in market. GitHub integration and pull request and support for automatic code review are truly great features.