Bamboo vs Jenkins comparison

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."

"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."

"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."

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

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

"Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance."

"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."

"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."

"Automation of chores like deployment, frequent manual tasks (like running scripts on test and production systems) reduced the time used and the number of errors made by engineers, freeing them to do meaningful work instead."

"Continuous Integration. Jenkins can integrate with almost any systems used for application development and testing, with its plugins."

"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its open source."

"Jenkins's automation and orchestration features have significantly improved workflows by automating various processes. Initially, it did not support YAML manifesting or GitOps, but recent versions have introduced these capabilities. Now, the tool supports importing manifest files from Git repositories, enabling the implementation of GitOps pipelines. Compared to other tools like GitLab, it has become a mature tool for running CI/CD pipelines."

"Jenkins is stable, user-friendly, and helps with continuous integration. As of today, I can't see any tool that's better than Jenkins."

"Jenkins is free and open source."

"It can scale easily."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."

"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."

"Some kind of SaaS product would be helpful in providing organizational structure."

"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."

"The solution's UI can use a facelift and the logs can use more detailed information."

"I do not have any notes for improvement."

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

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

"Tasks such as deployment, cloning, database switchover, and all other database missions and tasks are being done through Jenkins. If a job does not go through, at times the error message does not clearly indicate what caused the failure. I have to escalate it to the Jenkins DevOps team just to see what caused the failure. If the error message is clear, then I wouldn't have to escalate the issue to different teams."

"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"Some of the add-ons are too expensive."

"I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

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

"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."

"​It is free.​"

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."