We performed a comparison between Bamboo and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."
"In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."
"The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."
"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."
"One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system."
"Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance."
"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."
"It is a stable solution."
"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."
"Jenkins is very easy to use."
"When we have manual tasks, we have to depend on multiple technical teams. With Jenkins, we can bring all the technologies together by the click of a button. We can see results without having to depend on different teams. Jenkins makes life easy for the database and DevOps teams."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful."
"The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration between different tools."
"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."
"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."
"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."
"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."
"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."
"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."
"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."
"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"The user interface could be updated a little."
"Performance-wise. This needs to be improved. Not only performance-wise, some functionality or some features can be added to Jenkins."
"Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."
"Jenkins should adopt the Pipeline as Code approach by building a deployment pipeline using the Jenkins file."
"The disadvantage of Jenkins is writing Groovy scripts. There are other CI tools where you do not need to write this many scripts to manage and deploy."
"Logging could be improved to offer a clearer view."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"Sometimes you have Jenkins restarting because of OOM errors."
Bamboo is ranked 5th in Build Automation with 20 reviews while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Bamboo is rated 7.4, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Bamboo writes "High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". Bamboo is most compared with GitLab, GitHub Actions, Harness, Tekton and AWS CodePipeline, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge, Tekton and Harness. See our Bamboo vs. Jenkins report.
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