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CloudBees vs Harness comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudBees
Ranking in Build Automation
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (14th), Value Stream Management Software (3rd), DevSecOps (9th)
Harness
Ranking in Build Automation
12th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (30th), Cloud Cost Management (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of CloudBees is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Harness is 4.7%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Swati Priya - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2024
Offers more seamless, user-friendly experience and well-suited for managing your CI/CD processes
Everything works well with deployment, application management, running jobs, and pipelines, and RBAC is effective. However, one area of concern is tracking license usage. With a ProCloud license, for example, there's no centralized console to monitor how many licenses have been used. This lack of visibility can lead to untracked consumption and potentially overshooting license limits. Additionally, we use the UAM plugin, but it doesn’t provide details on when users were added. This lack of tracking features is disappointing, especially given our status as a premium CloudBees customer. Better tools for monitoring license usage and user activities would be beneficial. We've noticed occasional issues with folder permissions changing unexpectedly. Specifically, permissions sometimes shift from the CloudBees user to the root user. This can cause pipeline failures, as pipelines require the correct CloudBees user permissions to execute properly.
Misbah Mohammed Kollathodi - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 5, 2024
Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement
We use Harness for deploying Kubernetes clusters. It is a SaaS-based tool with a good graphical user interface. We can create workflows and deployment pipelines and easily visualize them. We can see the logs and understand where the pipeline is breaking. It's a highly customizable DevOps tool The…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The customer support is good. You get good representatives from CloudBees to help you and understand your requirements."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"CloudBees's user interface is very simple and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that its GUI is quite simple."
"CloudBees is a user-friendly tool."
"It can manage multiple Jenkins instances."
"CloudBees is the Jenkins tool for building and deploying. There's open-source Jenkins, which is free and can be used by any organization, but it offers a different architecture for Jenkins. If your organization is larger, you might choose the architecture. This way, you can have different masters for different applications, and different teams can manage their masters separately. However, a single person can still control all the masters, whoever manages it for the organization."
"Scalability largely depends on how the tool is set up within your infrastructure"
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
 

Cons

"We've noticed occasional issues with folder permissions changing unexpectedly. Specifically, permissions sometimes shift from the CloudBees user to the root user. This can cause pipeline failures, as pipelines require the correct CloudBees user permissions to execute properly."
"If you're logged in and working for about thirty minutes and then go idle for five to ten minutes, Jenkins will prompt you to re-authenticate."
"We did face some challenges, particularly with the infrastructure."
"I noticed that CloudBees runs too slowly because some applications run more than 50 pipelines."
"The problem with CloudBees is that when you merge it, the pipelines would randomly fail multiple times."
"One challenge I'd like to highlight is that with CloudBees CI growing bigger and bigger, there are limitations in terms of managing old plugins and services and upgrading them with time."
"The setup is somewhat complicated. You need a cloud architect and engineer to set it up properly. The initial setup will take time, so you need a good engineer and architect to handle it."
"A lot of stability issues are there with CloudBees."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
35%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudBees?
Everything works well with deployment, application management, running jobs, and pipelines, and RBAC is effective. However, one area of concern is tracking license usage. With a ProCloud license, f...
What is your primary use case for CloudBees?
We have five or six client controllers, referred to as ClientMasters, each serving a different region. For instance, we set up a client controller for the Europe region, where we manage multiple sc...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudBees?
I would advise you to understand your environment and familiarize yourself with CloudBees and its terminology. It is crucial to gain a clear understanding of each term and concept on the control pa...
What do you like most about Harness?
It's a highly customizable DevOps tool.
What needs improvement with Harness?
The platform's initial setup process could be simplified. Additionally, security features and capabilities for understanding vulnerabilities within the application could be enhanced directly from t...
What is your primary use case for Harness?
We use Harness for deploying Kubernetes clusters. It is a SaaS-based tool with a good graphical user interface. We can create workflows and deployment pipelines and easily visualize them. We can se...
 

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