Jenkins Reviews

Name: Jenkins
Brand: Jenkins
Rating: 4 (89 reviews)

Vendor: Jenkins

4.0 out of 5

89 reviews
87% willing to recommend

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What is Jenkins?

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

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Jenkins is the #3 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give Jenkins an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 89 most recent Jenkins reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 6.9. (Among the highest in the category). Jenkins is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure: Jenkins vs Microsoft Azure. Jenkins 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 22% of all views.

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AllenUmlas

Engineer at Etisalat

In our CI/CD pipeline, we rely on Jenkins to trigger various tasks related to the Telco Cloud infrastructure. It's an essential tool for managing our infrastructure tasks efficiently Jenkins is incredibly user-friendly, so I haven't encountered any difficulties using it. It's the only product…

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Vanny Yang

Senior Server Engineer at Cellcard

As an administrator, I manage Jenkins. The development team uses it more frequently for automation and CI/CD Jenkins is a very good automation tool for building and deploying CI/CD. It is a good building tool and is the most popular tool for Java and microservices projects. Jenkins has a lot of…

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Annamalai Pts

DevOps Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

I use Jenkins as a CI/CD tool. We create pipelines using Jenkins, with stages for Maven builds, Docker image builds, SonarQube integration, and deploying the image to a Kubernetes cluster, AWS EKS Jenkins has made the developers' work very easy. They commit to the remote repository, and…

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Jenkins mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Jenkins in the Build Automation category stands at 11.3%, down from 14.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Nov 1, 2024

Valuable Features

"Also, the ability to customize these plugins is valuable. Its user-friendliness stands out, especially in its user interface which allows easy installation and configuration."
"It's a powerful tool for CI/CD."
"Jenkins is particularly valuable since it saves time by automating manual tasks."

Room for Improvement

"Jenkins could improve in areas related to Kubernetes and Docker container integration, like machine allocation of nodes and Marshaling integration improvements."
"Creating a new SonarQube project requires a separate job, and we've encountered some integration issues with Docker and the need for better vulnerability checks."
"There are some issues with Jenkins, especially with the SIP job."