We performed a comparison between CircleCI and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The automation workflow in CircleCI related to third-party applications is very good and allows standardization of applications."
"The solution offers continuous integration and continuous delivery."
"Enables us to detect exactly which build failed and why, and to push multiple builds to our production environment at a very fast rate."
"The ability to automate the build process in a seamless way and run workflows effortlessly. It supports parallel builds so it can scale well. Also, it covers the basics of any build and integration tool, including email notifications (especially when tests are fixed), project insights, etc."
"It's a stable product."
"Some of the most valuable features include container-based builds, integration with Bit Bucket and being able to store artifacts."
"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."
"This solution has helped us in automating the build and test process, reducing time."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"Different types of jobs, such as Pipeline, Build, Freestyle, Maven, etc."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful."
"We have started to integrate Pipelines as a part of a build, and built a library of common functions. It simplified and made our build scripts more readable."
"Has enabled full automation of the company."
"Integration with Microsoft Azure is one area for improvement. Azure is growing in its user base, and supports various cloud infrastructure components such as Service Fabric, App Service, etc. Some of Azure’s deployment models (like Kudu) require a steep learning curve, but if CircleCI would come up with such features (deployment to App Service) out of the box, it would be amazing."
"There needs to be some improvement in the user interface of CircleCI."
"The solution’s pricing could be better."
"Billing is a mess."
"In our case, we have several products built using Jenkins. It is quite difficult to navigate into the latest stable build in a given OS."
"Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement."
"Centralized user management would be helpful."
"The upgrades need improvement."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"The learning curve is quite steep at the moment."
"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."
"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."
CircleCI is ranked 11th in Build Automation with 5 reviews while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. CircleCI is rated 6.6, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CircleCI writes "Unhelpful support, unclear billing, and has offers ability to track usage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". CircleCI is most compared with TeamCity, Tekton, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild and GoCD, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Microsoft Azure. See our CircleCI vs. Jenkins report.
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