A CICD build tool of choice
October 17, 2019
A CICD build tool of choice
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Jenkins
Jenkins is used across various teams in our organization. It is an integration tool where we use the CI/CD pipeline for continuous deployments of our microservices. This tool makes life easy to automate the process of deploying services into all environments ( staging, production, and development environments). It uses in all development life-cycle processes including build, document, test, package, stage, deploys, static analysis, and publishing.
- It is free of cost.
- Easily configurable - Jenkins can be easily modified and extended. It deploys code instantly, generates test reports. Jenkins can be configured according to the requirements for continuous integrations and continuous delivery.
- Easy support - Because it is open source and widely used, there is no shortage of support from large online communities of agile teams.
- Most of the integration work is automated. Hence fewer integration issues. This saves both time and money over the lifespan of a project.
- Jenkins management is generally done by a single user and that leads to tracking and accountability problems with the pushed code.
- Jenkins doesn’t allow one developer to see the commits done by another team member, readily. This makes tracking the overall release progress a rather difficult job for larger projects. This can cause a lot of trouble with the release manager.
- Jenkins doesn’t provide any analytics (there are plugins but they are not enough) on the end-to-end deployment cycle. This again goes back to the lack of overall tracking that contributes to the lack of analytics as well.
- Increases productivity.
- We can focus on other tasks.
- Issues are detected and resolved almost right away which keeps the software in a state where it can be released at any time safely.
The big difference between Jenkins and other alternative tools is that Jenkins is open source and it’s free. Jenkins is very much about simple functionality. It’s a general CI tool that offers basic automation. It’s the most common CI tool on the market with a large community of users.
Do you think Jenkins delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Jenkins's feature set?
Yes
Did Jenkins live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Jenkins go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Jenkins again?
Yes