Jenkins: Powerful Opensource Continuous Integration tool
December 11, 2021

Jenkins: Powerful Opensource Continuous Integration tool

ANurag Tamrakar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Jenkins

We're using Jenkins as a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tool in our organization, We are deploying, administrating, and managing multiple instances of Jenkins for a large number of teams. As it supports multiple kinds of Jobs and pipelines it's well suited to all the teams across our organization. By decommissioning enterprise CI Tools we started Using Jenkins and we're saving a significant amount of money.

Pros

  • It offers multiple types of Jobs and pipelines which makes automation easier.
  • We're using Jenkins as a CI tool, We are administrating and managing it for a large number of teams.
  • Feature and functionality wise It's far better than all other enterprise CI tools.

Cons

  • We have only community support so sometimes it can be problematic to troubleshoot or fix issues.
  • Most of the plugins are developed and managed by open-source contributors so we've to rely on the mercy of collaborators or to develop our own.
  • Sometimes it's very hard to troubleshoot the issues due to improper error handling in plugins.
  • It has got plugin for almost every tool used across the software industry.
  • It is highly customizable
  • It has a large community, A big active user base, and new functionalities are added frequently.
  • It's secure even open source, security patches are also released frequently.
  • Its stable and requires very less maintenance.
  • Feature and functionality wise It's far better than all other enterprise CI tools.
  • By using Jenkins we're saving significant amount of money .

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Jenkins go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Jenkins again?

Yes

If you're looking for a highly customizable CI/CD tool then Jenkins is a go-to Tool! if you're looking for developing and using your own features you're in. You can develop your own plugins in Jenkins. Jenkins requires maintaining servers and building agents if you're looking for something maintenance-free then you should look for SaaS-based CI/CD tools.

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