Bamboo vs GitLab vs Jenkins comparison

"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."

"The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."

"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."

"In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."

"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."

"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."

"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."

"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."

"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."

"If you want to maintain your issues in GitLab and raise your book of work and features, then GitLab is a great tool for collaboration and integration with code deployment and CICD pipelines."

"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."

"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."

"The most valuable functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution."

"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."

"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."

"Jenkins is a very mature product."

"Jenkins's open-based framework is very valuable."

"It is easy to use."

"The auto-schedule feature is valuable. Another valuable feature is that Jenkins does not trigger a build when there is no change in any of the systems. Jenkins also supports most of the open-source plug-ins."

"Jenkins is very user-friendly."

"It is open source, flexible, scalable, and easy to use. It is easy to maintain for the administrator. It is a continuous integration tool, and its enterprise version is quite mature. It has good integrations and plug-ins. Azure DevOps can also be integrated with Jenkins."

"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."

"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."

"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."

"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."

"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."

"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."

"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."

"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."

"GitLab doesn't have AWS integration. It would be better to have integration with other container management environments beyond Kubernetes. It has very good integration with Kubernetes, but it doesn't have good integration with, for example, AWS, ETS, etc."

"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."

"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."

"GitLab should enhance its GitOps capability as they are currently using FluxCD, however, Argo CD is better and offers more features. GitLab should work on improving their user interface for GitOps as it is lagging behind."

"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."

"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."

"There are some challenges with repository file management as GitLab may struggle to manage larger files."

"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."

"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."

"UI is quite outdated."

"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."

"And I don't care too much for the Jenkins user interface. It's not that user-friendly compared to other solutions available right now. It's not a great user experience. You can do just fine if you are a techie, but it would take a novice some time to learn it and get things done."

"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."

"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."

"The disadvantage of Jenkins is writing Groovy scripts. There are other CI tools where you do not need to write this many scripts to manage and deploy."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

"GitLab is an open-source solution."

"We are using its free version, and we are evaluating its Premium version. Its Ultimate version is very expensive."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a five out of ten."

"In terms of the pricing for GitLab, on a scale of one to five, with one being expensive and five being cheap, I'm rating pricing for the solution a four. It could still be cheaper because right now, my company has a small team, and sometimes it's difficult to use a paid product for a small team. You'd hope the team will grow and scale, but currently, you're paying a high license fee for a small team. I'm referring to the GitLab license that has premium features and will give you all features. This can be a problem for management to approve the high price of the license for a team this small."

"The open-source version is very good and the commercial version is reasonably priced."

"The solution's pricing is acceptable."

"As I work in a vast enterprise, I'm unsure about the licensing cost for GitLab. It's the management team that takes care of that."

"The solution is based on a subscription model and is reasonably priced."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

"We use the tool's open-source version which is free. There is an enterprise version which is expensive but comes with better support."

"We are using the free version of Jenkins. There are no costs or licensing."

"​It is free.​"

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."

"This is an open-source solution for the basic features. However, if an organization wishes to include specific functionality, outside of the basic package, there are extra costs involved."

"It could be cheaper because there are many solutions available in the market. We are paying yearly."