Jenkins Reviews

Name: Jenkins
Brand: Jenkins
Rating: 4.0 (90 reviews)

Vendor: Jenkins

4.0 out of 5

90 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 90 most recent Jenkins reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 6.9. (Among the lowest in the category). Jenkins is most commonly compared to GitLab: Jenkins vs GitLab. 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 23% of all views.

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AllenUmlas

Engineer at Etisalat

Jenkins is incredibly user-friendly, so I haven't encountered any difficulties using it. It's the only product I've used for automation, but I find it to be very intuitive and effective. Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes. We're leveraging Jenkins to automate tasks related to Telco, particularly in upgrading the manual orchestration. It's a critical tool for streamlining our operations.

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Vanny Yang

Senior Server Engineer at Cellcard

Jenkins is Java-based. Our organization recently upgraded to Jenkins 2.390. We deploy Jenkins into VMware vCenter machines. We use Amazon Web Services for pipeline automation on the cloud. I would recommend Jenkins to others. Jenkins is a popular CI/CD tool commonly used by DevOps teams. I rate Jenkins an eight out of ten.

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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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Valuable Features

"I can install Jenkins for integration from multiple developers and automate application delivery, staging, and production environments."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"I do not have any notes 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."