We performed a comparison between Jenkins and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Build Automation."Jenkins integrates with multiple tools like Bitbucket and makes life easier. We don't have to write a lot of code since a lot of libraries are available."
"We used it for all continuous integration parts, like automation testing, deployment, etc."
"Jenkins has excellent task planning features."
"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 very useful for us to be able to collect and manage automatic processing pipelines."
"The auto-schedule feature is valuable. Another valuable feature is that Jenkins does not trigger a build when there is no change in any of the systems. Jenkins also supports most of the open-source plug-ins."
"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"Great features at a good price."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"The performance is good."
"Its ability to scale is most valuable. There are certain periods of the year when we are busier, and we're able to scale up and scale down with Azure depending upon our needs."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"It can be improved by including automated mobile reporting integrations."
"Jenkins takes a long time to create archive files."
"It could be cheaper."
"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."
"The user interface could be updated a little."
"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of an Artifactory (Universal artifact repository manager)."
"Jenkins is an open-source solution, and people tend to stay on the same version for a long time. When you look for an answer on Google, you often find something that doesn't relate to your implementation. The plugins are both the aspect of Jenkins and also one of the worst because the plugins can have different versions, so it's hard to figure out how to solve the problems."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"When we work with Microsoft Azure we deploy it in a hybrid system. We do many operations with the open stack and I used it for APIs connected to Microsoft Azure. The reduction is because those APIs and our tools that are required to connect are not for the Microsft Azure solution. It has a bit of complexity, nothing to do with Microsoft Azure as a CSP."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"Could be more user friendly; security features should be improved."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"The license price could be lower."
Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Jenkins is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and IBM Rational Build Forge, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
We monitor all Build Automation reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.