We performed a comparison between Harness and Jenkins 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."It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"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."
"The solution is scalable and has a large number of plugins that can help you scale it to your needs."
"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."
"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."
"The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."
"Different types of jobs, such as Pipeline, Build, Freestyle, Maven, etc."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect of Jenkins is pipeline customization. Jenkins provides a declarative pipeline as well as a scripted pipeline. The scripted pipeline uses a programming language. You can customize it to your needs, so we use Jenkins because other solutions like Travis and Spinnaker don't allow much customization."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
"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."
"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."
"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."
"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"Jenkins takes a long time to create archive files."
"The solution's UI can use a facelift and the logs can use more detailed information."
"We need more licensed product integrations."
Harness is ranked 8th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Harness is rated 7.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". 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". Harness is most compared with Tekton, Bamboo, TeamCity, GitHub Actions and GitLab, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Bazel.
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