Bamboo vs Jenkins comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Jenkins and Bamboo are prominent tools in the CI/CD category, each offering distinct advantages for continuous integration and delivery. Based on various features, Jenkins holds an edge due to its extensive plugin ecosystem and automation capabilities, while Bamboo benefits from seamless integration with Atlassian products.

Features: Jenkins offers a vast array of plugins, enabling high customization and integration with numerous tools, along with support for multiple programming languages. Its automation and scalability are substantial strengths. Bamboo integrates seamlessly with Atlassian tools like Jira and Bitbucket, offering built-in deployment projects and user-friendly configurations for custom actions. It delivers a cohesive experience for teams within the Atlassian ecosystem.

Room for Improvement: Jenkins faces challenges with plugin stability, documentation complexity, and cloud integration. Users seek enhancements in the user interface and clearer error messaging. Bamboo has a steep learning curve and its integration capabilities outside the Atlassian ecosystem are limited. Improvements are needed in governance processes and training options. Both tools require better ease of use and setup, with Jenkins needing improved plugin management and Bamboo requiring more flexibility in customizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jenkins is versatile, being deployed across on-premises and various cloud environments, but is often reliant on community-based support. Bamboo’s deployment options are primarily on-premises, with some hybrid cloud capabilities, and it benefits from structured Atlassian support, offering more integrated assistance for users within the Atlassian framework.

Pricing and ROI: Jenkins is cost-effective with its open-source nature, providing significant savings on CI/CD operations. It offers an enterprise version that comes with a commercial license. Bamboo, operating on a subscription model, is perceived as reasonably priced, especially for teams using multiple Atlassian products. Jenkins provides substantial ROI through its free structure, while Bamboo offers value with its integration capabilities and licensed support.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bamboo

Ranking in Build Automation

10th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 4.3%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jenkins is 7.5%, down from 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Jenkins	7.5%
Bamboo	4.3%
Other	88.2%

Build Automation

Featured Reviews

Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Automation has streamlined build and deployment workflows and provides clear project reporting

Regarding improvements for Bamboo, I can't think of anything right now. Bamboo is serving the purpose that we needed it for. I would say pipelines for model building could be an area of focus. However, I can't really comment on that because I haven't looked at Bamboo to assist with machine learning pipelines. If they haven't focused on building MLOps pipelines, that's definitely an area where they could assist businesses. I haven't looked at what Bamboo offers for MLOps, so it's possible that they've already built in features. Machine learning and AI are in big demand at the moment. If they haven't focused too much on MLOps, that's probably where they can improve.

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Jamshaid I

Principal Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Efficient resource allocation and robust workflow with autoscaling capabilities

In Kubernetes, we use node-based architecture with nodes and pods and follow practices like RBAC and rollback. Multiple pods can run concurrently. We benefit from Kubernetes' ability to autoscale pods and use horizontal pod autoscalers to adjust the number of pods based on metrics like CPU or memory usage, ensuring efficient resource allocation and stability under load.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The main benefits Bamboo provides for me and my team are the automation to pick up code changes and automate the deployments, building images."

"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

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"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."

"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."

"It has a lot of community posts and support."

"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."

"The most valuable features are Jenkins Pipelines for ALM and full Deploy Cycle."

"The most valuable aspect of Jenkins is pipeline customization. Jenkins provides a declarative pipeline as well as a scripted pipeline. The scripted pipeline uses a programming language. You can customize it to your needs, so we use Jenkins because other solutions like Travis and Spinnaker don't allow much customization."

"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."

"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."

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Cons

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."

"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."

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

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"Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on."

"The upgrades need improvement."

"The documentation on plugin development could be better: more examples. "

"Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."

"For this solution to be a 10, it has to be a lot more stable. Maybe the public version of Jenkins is stable, but in our case it's not stable."

"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."

"Jenkins could have better cloud functionality. Currently, we are using the existing legacy model, but we are moving toward the cloud, so it would be great if they could improve in that area. In the future, I would like more cloud features and related training materials, like a video tutorial."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"It's free software with a big community behind it, which is very good."

"Jenkins is open-source, so it is free."

"Jenkins is a free solution, it is open source."

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

"The open-source version is free, but small companies would not be able to afford the cloud-based version."

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."

"There is no cost. It is open source."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Government

12%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	56

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Bamboo?

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

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

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

What needs improvement with Bamboo?

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What do you like most about Jenkins?

Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jenkins?

Jenkins is used in many companies to save money, especially within R&D divisions, by avoiding the expenses of proprietary tools.

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Overview

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.

Atlassian

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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