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."The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its open source."
"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."
"It is open source, flexible, scalable, and easy to use. It is easy to maintain for the administrator. It is a continuous integration tool, and its enterprise version is quite mature. It has good integrations and plug-ins. Azure DevOps can also be integrated with Jenkins."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features. We can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections."
"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."
"We use Jenkins to automatically build Python binaries into several OS's i.e. OS X, Ubuntu, Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit."
"For business needs, Jenkins is the most relevant choice because it can be self-hosted, the price is good, it’s robust, and requires almost no effort for maintenance."
"There are a large number of plugins available for integration with third party systems."
"The most valuable features of the solution are for management, such as dashboards."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is it has everything together in one place. It is one large tool with lots of small tools that are updated often."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"It is easy to install."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"This is a very stable product."
"In our case, we have several products built using Jenkins. It is quite difficult to navigate into the latest stable build in a given OS."
"Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."
"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."
"We need more licensed product integrations."
"Some kind of SaaS product would be helpful in providing organizational structure."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."
"Jenkins takes a long time to create archive files."
"Azure could be improved with better security. The world is changing and their security could be better. Compared to five years ago, many of these cloud systems are a lot better, especially since you can set up a private cloud and configure your services to make it more secure."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"The product's initial setup process and stability need improvement."
"They should include a cybersecurity feature to improve the protection of the systems. They could do better in terms of the pricing model. Its price keeps on changing. Their technical support can also be better."
"The installation process is complex."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
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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