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Jenkins pros and cons

Vendor: Jenkins

4.0 out of 5

90 reviews
87% willing to recommend

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reviewer1748100

Cloud Security Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 19, 2021

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.

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Software Data Engineer at PayPal

Feb 18, 2022

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.

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reviewer1483710

Software Engineering Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 21, 2021

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.

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Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2021

The initial setup is simple.

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Senior Devops Engineer at Rakuten

Jun 10, 2024

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.

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Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 24, 2017

Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product.

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DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 14, 2022

It can scale easily.

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Facilities And Administration at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Jun 16, 2022

Jenkins is a very mature product.

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Manikandan Dharmaraj

Staff Engineer - Product and Platform Engineering at Altimetrik (Deployed at FORD)

Aug 29, 2022

Jenkins's open-based framework is very valuable.

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reviewer1652133

Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Aug 18, 2021

Jenkins can be used for elastic management, if you have any sensitive data or credentials you can use them across the environment. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and can be used across multiple use cases.

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Cloud Security Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 19, 2021

And I don't care too much for the Jenkins user interface. It's not that user-friendly compared to other solutions available right now. It's not a great user experience. You can do just fine if you are a techie, but it would take a novice some time to learn it and get things done.

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Software Data Engineer at PayPal

Feb 18, 2022

I sometimes face a bottleneck when installing the plugins on an offline machine. Mapping the dependencies and then installing the correct sequence of dependencies is a nightmare, and it took me two days to do it.

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reviewer1483710

Software Engineering Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 21, 2021

There are a lot of things that they can try to improvise. They can reduce a lot of configurations. It is currently supporting Groovy for scripting. It would be really good if it can be improvised for Python because, for most of the automation, we have Python as a script. It would be good if can also support Python. We have a lot of Android builds. These Android builds can be a part of Jenkins. It can have some plug-ins or configurations for Android builds. There should also be some internal matrix to check the performance. We also want to have more REST API support, which is currently not much in Jenkins. We are not able to get more information about running Jenkins. More REST API support should be provided.

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Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Sep 27, 2021

We cannot change the ownership of any directory or file or any kind of directory.

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Senior Devops Engineer at Rakuten

Jun 10, 2024

Integrating Jenkins with other tools or solutions has presented some challenges. For instance, when attempting to integrate Jenkins with Kubernetes, I encountered numerous errors, which took several days to resolve. In Jenkins, adding a feature typically involves incorporating the repository feature separately. Jenkins lacks built-in Git repository functionality, necessitating an external Git repository to store Jenkins manifests.

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Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Dec 24, 2017

Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement.

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DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 14, 2022

They need to improve their documentation.

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Facilities And Administration at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Jun 16, 2022

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

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Manikandan Dharmaraj

Staff Engineer - Product and Platform Engineering at Altimetrik (Deployed at FORD)

Aug 29, 2022

It can be improved by including automated mobile reporting integrations.

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reviewer1652133

Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Aug 18, 2021

The solution could improve by having more advanced integrations.

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