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"Jenkins is a must for Devops Engineer"
Parvathy G. - Devops EngineerSeptember 18, 2023
STARTING PRICE
Not provided by software provider
EASE OF USE
4.1/5
Based on Capterra user reviews
On-premise and web-based continuous integration solution that provides businesses with tools to build, test and deploy projects.
Provider
CloudBees
Located In
United States
Foundation
2011
Open API
Yes
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Training
Documentation
Support
Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum, Email/Help Desk, Phone Support
On-premise and web-based continuous integration platform that provides businesses of all sizes with plugins to build, test and deploy projects across networks.
Content Source: Jenkins
Green rating bars show the winning product based on the average rating and number of reviews.
Reviewers appreciate Jenkins for its extensive plugin support, which allows seamless integration with other tools and customization to meet diverse project requirements. They find the availability of a wide range of plugins beneficial, making it easier to enhance Jenkins' functionality. However, users also report challenges with managing plugins, including complexity, bugs, and compatibility issues, which can complicate the overall user experience.
Users commend Jenkins for its robust pipeline management capabilities, allowing for seamless integration, customization, and automation of continuous integration and deployment processes. They find the user-friendly UI and flexibility in pipeline scheduling and management particularly beneficial for their projects. Additionally, the ability to create and manage pipelines with ease, coupled with extensive plugin support, makes Jenkins a preferred choice for many development teams.
Pros
All my builds and automation jobs are maintained in it. It is easy to use and have great help with examples.
Jenkins helps me to check my build problems and give the appropriate fixes for the build, it's been a great experience and lucky to have this tool as part of my daily software development work.
What I like most about it is the fact that you can easily integrate with quality tools, like Sonar for example. It helped me to save a lot of time.
It's easy integration with Sonar helps you determine your code quality and performance every time you run a job, making it very very useful for developers.
Cons
So the least thing is synchronous deployment should be done for the product in the same environment which will not come with an error.
If two person tries to deploy the product at the same time, we come across with errors.
It does not have features for tracking job history, sometimes accident deletes or changes a job and we unable to recover it.
Sometimes it's unbelievably difficult to troubleshoot some issues with the builds, some errors are uninformative and completely useless.
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John R.
"Jenkins is a must for Devops Engineer"
Overall: It's one of the most important tools that I use every day while working as a DevOps Engineer. It has helped me in easing my job very much
Pros: We can automate and configure almost everything using jenkins, it can be used to start/stop servers, backup dbs, build and deploy codes in the environments, etc.
Cons: The complete logs may not be visible from Jenkins, but still, the main error can be seen. I can't think of any other problems in Jenkins
"Past its best"
Pros: In its time, Jenkins was an outstanding tool. It was my go to for automation or all kinds, not just continuous integration. I have successfully delivered several projects with it. Jenkinsfiles and JCASC have been solid attempts to improve the Jenkins experience over the years.
Cons: Jenkins is hard to operate, gives you fewer and fewer options for well-maintained plugins and it's relatively easy to break pipelines in hard to understand ways. I would not recommend using Jenkins now that there are so many better options. I have spent many hours in an organisation where it was the preferred tool, trying to make pipelines more reliable, build custom plugins and meet security standards. It can be done but other products have so much of that prebuilt, why spend the time!
"A great experience to manage your CICD pipeline"
Overall: A great experience to manage your CICD pipeline
Pros: It is a great CICD tool, allowing easy integration with VCS tools, and jobs scheduling. Plugins are essential for its use
Cons: Upgrades sometimes get your system down and rollback is required when using On Prem
"Versatile program with important features"
Overall: An experience of average satisfaction, we did not like that we had to spend extra budget to hire a new software that would bring together the capabilities that Jenkins could not contain enough for our team to feel comfortable, but on the other hand we do accept that it has improvement systems that They improved our developed software.
Pros: A program that in the team generated high expectations for generating build automation, where Jenkins can be configured to automatically execute software builds every time changes are made to the source code, this ensures that any new code integration is tested and verified instantly, making it easy to detect and fix early errors or compatibility issues.
Cons: Under support for Microservices, which in our case and given that our company Google operates at large scale, often with architectures based on microservices, Jenkins could not handle multiple projects and microservices simultaneously, not allowing independent and specific builds and deployments as required. We needed, in this sense, we had to use a program similar and added to the one we already had.
"Widely adopted and flexible open source tool"
Pros: Best open source that allows you to manage your jobs with the support for multiple plugins for free.
Cons: Time taking to setup few workflows. Updates are very frequent
