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 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."
"Different types of jobs, such as Pipeline, Build, Freestyle, Maven, etc."
"I like that you can find a wide range of plugins for Jenkins."
"Jenkins optimizes the CI/CD process, enhances automation, and ensures efficiency and management of our build and deployment pipeline."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
"It's very useful when you want to automate different processes from beginning to end."
"I love Jenkins. I like that you work on anything, and you make anything. Jenkins is very important for my team. I am satisfied with the product."
"Jenkins' most valuable feature is Pipeline."
"The monitoring features are very good."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"It's easy to use, and it's scalable. If we want to grow our product more, we can do it."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"It is really scalable and easy to use."
"Jenkins can be improved, but it's difficult for me to explain. The initial setup could be more straightforward. If you connect Jenkins with bookings and lockouts, it can be challenging."
"Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."
"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."
"Centralized user management would be helpful."
"Partition security for the workflow of projects is not yet an option."
"I think an integrated help button, that respected the context of the change/work in hand, would be a worthwhile improvement."
"Developer documentation for plugins, plugin development, integrations: Sometimes it’s tricky to do pretty obvious things."
"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."
"The microservices and analytics of Azure are good areas that could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"I think it would be good to keep making progress on giving users the ability to do action calls on Data Factory. Right now, it's mostly local. Perhaps Microsoft could add the ability to put some calls in the workflow."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"I don't understand why we spend so much time and money on Azure when Microsoft relies on third-party companies for support in the CSP model. I don't know how the support model works within Microsoft, but giving it to poor-performing third-party companies is not ideal."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"It is pretty secure, but it can always be more secure."
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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