We performed a comparison between Jenkins and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Build Automation."We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit."
"It's very easy to learn."
"The auto-schedule feature is valuable. Another valuable feature is that Jenkins does not trigger a build when there is no change in any of the systems. Jenkins also supports most of the open-source plug-ins."
"This solution has helped us in automating the build and test process, reducing time."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration with GitHub, and the automation for deployment."
"Jenkins is very stable."
"There are a large number of plugins available for integration with third party systems."
"Jenkins can be used for elastic management, if you have any sensitive data or credentials you can use them across the environment. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and can be used across multiple use cases."
"The most valuable features of Azure for me are its ease of management, recoverable virtual machines with backup support, excellent customer support, and user-friendly interface."
"It's set up to handle any cloud requirement."
"Microsoft Azure is built for scalability."
"My experience with technical support so far is very good."
"The solution is user-friendly and compatible."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"I sometimes face a bottleneck when installing the plugins on an offline machine. Mapping the dependencies and then installing the correct sequence of dependencies is a nightmare, and it took me two days to do it."
"I would like to see even more integrations included in the next release."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."
"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."
"It would be better if there were an option to remove its Java dependency. This would make it more compatible with other software, and it could be much better. At present, we have to depend on Java whenever we want to deploy agents."
"This solution could be improved by removing the storage of unnecessary data such as the history of test deployments that were unsuccessful."
"The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."
"I would like to see it more easily accessible."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
"The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible."
"I would like to see this solution support integration."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"Onboarding customers is a challenge. Sometimes our customers don't know how to deal with the cloud environment. Maybe the customers are more comfortable with the old-fashioned on-premise environment."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Jenkins is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and IBM Rational Build Forge, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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