Bamboo Reviews

Name: Bamboo
Brand: Atlassian
Rating: 3.7 (22 reviews)

3.7 out of 5

22 reviews
77% willing to recommend

1,152 followers

What is Bamboo?

Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

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Bamboo is the #6 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give Bamboo an average rating of 7.4 out of 10. Bamboo is most commonly compared to GitLab: Bamboo vs GitLab. Bamboo is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 73% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 18% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Andrea Carella

DevOps Engineer at Politecnico di Milano

I have used Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS for implementing Bamboo. It is not difficult to complete. The length of time it takes for deployment depends on a lot of variables, such as how the pipeline is deployed and what type of infrastructure is present. However, it typically takes only hours not days. I rate the setup of Bamboo a nine out of ten.

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Cuneyt-Gurses

Cloud architect at DTech Cloud

The setup is moderately difficult. It is not highly complicated, but it is not easy. We must go through some steps to complete the implementation. Once the product is implemented, it will be stable. We face some challenges since the tool is deployed on-premise. The capabilities are adequate for our needs, though.

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Annie Ioceva

Head of Product at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We are considering moving to a cloud solution and to use Bitbucket pipeline because of the features it offers. From a hosting perspective, it's easier to make use of solutions that are hosted in the cloud rather than to maintain the tool on-premise. This is not feasible with Bamboo. A feature I would like to see added is the integration with quality assurance reports when you run automated tests such as a Selenium test. It would be great to have the results visualised to understand the quality of a build. It is possible to do this manually but it requires a lot of configuration.

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Bamboo mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Bamboo in the Build Automation category stands at 8.3%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Build Automation	Jan 2, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 2, 2025	Download
Comparison	Bamboo vs GitLab	Jan 2, 2025	Download
Comparison	Bamboo vs Tekton	Jan 2, 2025	Download
Comparison	Bamboo vs Jenkins	Jan 2, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
GitLab	4.3	17.4%	97%	81 interviews Add to research
VMware Tanzu Platform	4.0	N/A	100%	20 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"We use Bamboo to automate all our test builds and deployments. It integrates with tools like the ReportPortal to help us check and evaluate processes. When we initiate commands, it automatically checks for scaling issues or failures related to new code. Based on these evaluations, it provides reports in the ReportPortal, helping us decide whether to implement changes."
"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."

Room for Improvement

"Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins were very limited."
"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."
"It can be challenging for someone new to the system or ecosystem to grasp, making it difficult to train new people and help them understand."