Digital.ai Release vs Jenkins comparison

"The most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."

"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."

"The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us."

"The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."

"I like that you can find a wide range of plugins for Jenkins."

"Jenkins allows us to automate deployment, so I no longer have to do it manually. That's the primary use case. The other advantage of Jenkins is that it's open source. It was free for me to download and install. It's a product that's been in use for many years, so I can find a lot of support online for any issues that I may encounter while configuring anything for a given use case."

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

"It's a powerful tool for CI/CD."

"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 very user-friendly."

"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."

"The deployment of traditional Jenkins is easy."

"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."

"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"Currently, we put artifact details manually. What we could improve, in our case, is the deployment instruction base. Developers input all the information, including which artifact and where it needs to be deployed. What Digital.ai could do is automatically go to the deployment instruction page, take those artifact details, and implement them."

"This solution could be improved by removing the storage of unnecessary data such as the history of test deployments that were unsuccessful."

"The UI must be more user-friendly."

"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."

"Logging could be improved to offer a clearer view."

"It could be cheaper."

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

"The bug fix speed is very slow."

"We would like to see the addition of mobile simulators support to this solution, as part of its open-source offering. We currently have to carry out manual testing for these platforms."

"The solution's license includes all features."

"Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."

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

"It is a free product."

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

"In our company, we do pay for the licensing of the solution."

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

"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."

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

"It is an open source."