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 can schedule anything with Jenkins, which is useful for deployment or anything that requires scheduling. It also has multiple plugins we can use for Maven, JUnit, etc."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script."
"This is a great integration tool and very powerful."
"I like that you can find a wide range of plugins for Jenkins."
"Jenkins is very stable."
"It is easy to use."
"This solution has helped us in automating the build and test process, reducing time."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"We have found the user interface to be intuitive. Microsoft is a master at UI."
"The product scales extremely well."
"The solution provides multiple well integrated services which happen to work together seamlessly and provide flexibility and scalability for use cases all around the industry."
"Azure has the best website amongst all cloud computing platforms. It is simple to utilize, and one can release nearly anything, from app services to host sites."
"Jenkins is an old product, and we encounter performance issues and slow response. Also, some of the plugins are not stable."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"It could be cheaper."
"The solution could improve by having more advanced integrations."
"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."
"For this solution to be a 10, it has to be a lot more stable. Maybe the public version of Jenkins is stable, but in our case it's not stable."
"Jenkins could improve by allowing more scripting languages. We need to use Groovy scripting and it is difficult to debug and it is not ideal for creating file scripts. We tried to search for assistance but we did not find much help."
"Customer services and support should be improved. If a user faces challenges in accessing Microsoft Azure, the support team takes time—it could be 24 to 48 hours—to resolve them. We need solutions in four to five hours. And there are business-critical issues where we need an immediate resolution."
"Azure calculator could be improved, there are issues with login synchronization."
"There are always new features to add in terms of additional indicators, improving the looks of the dashboard and stuff. There are some dashboards that are not attractive, we are looking to make them fancier and nice-looking."
"Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."
"The cost calculation for the services can be an unclear aspect which makes it difficult to estimate the expenses incurred accurately."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
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, IBM Rational Build Forge and Harness, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
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