Jenkins Reviews

Name: Jenkins
Brand: Jenkins
Rating: 4.0 (93 reviews)

Vendor: Jenkins

4.0 out of 5

93 reviews
87% willing to recommend

1,578 followers

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What is Jenkins?

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

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Jenkins is the #3 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give Jenkins an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Jenkins is most commonly compared to GitLab: Jenkins vs GitLab. Jenkins is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Featured Jenkins reviews

Dinesh-Patil

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The dashboard needs to be improved. Though the access management and authentication functionalities are present, the dashboard and UI could be more user-friendly. The product has many plug-ins. Users have to go through the documentation to be able to use the product. The UI must be more user-friendly. The information should be available in the dashboard itself. The users shouldn’t have to refer to the documentation. When a user hovers over the elements on the dashboard, it should reveal information about them.

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RakeshPatel2

Software Engineer at HSBC

I would rate this solution 6 out of 10. I have less knowledge of the raw Jenkins, but Jenkins is doing almost all the stuff that I want it to do, but it's not a 10 because of the difficulties to configure it, to make it work, to do end-to-end, and then the stability. You should first find out all the requirements that Jenkins is doing. You need to find out if you have any coding issue or if Jenkins has any issue. Now I train people to use it, and normally these are the issues that I find. There are many occasions where there is an issue with code but it's not always that Jenkins is wrong; sometimes it's the code that is breaking.

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Mahdi Mallaki

Senior Devops Engineer at Rakuten

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. In contrast, GitLab offers an integrated Git repository and pipeline runner, streamlining the process. One improvement for Jenkins could be integrating a Git server, simplifying the management of CI/CD pipelines. Currently, with Jenkins, modifying pipeline manifests requires navigating to a separate Git repository. In GitLab, however, manifest changes can be made directly within the repository.

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Jenkins mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of Jenkins in the Build Automation category stands at 10.4%, down from 13.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation

PeerResearch reports based on Jenkins reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Build Automation	May 20, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 20, 2025	Download
Comparison	Jenkins vs GitLab	May 20, 2025	Download
Comparison	Jenkins vs Tekton	May 20, 2025	Download
Comparison	Jenkins vs GitHub Actions	May 20, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
GitLab	4.3	15.9%	97%	84 interviews Add to research
VMware Tanzu Platform	4.0	0.9%	100%	22 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"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."
"Jenkins is free and open source."
"Jenkins is a CI/CD tool and is the most robust tool."

Room for Improvement

"We sometimes face challenges during version upgrades, such as failures when migrating Kubernetes versions."
"Jenkins can sometimes run slow, especially when restarting after a plugin installation or when returning from a pipeline view to the dashboard."
"The major drawback with Jenkins is the lack of support."

Pricing

Jenkins is predominantly free and open-source, making it a cost-effective solution for enterprises. Many users highlight its lack of licensing and setup costs, although some invest in server hardware for deployment. Organizations using the enterprise edition find it more costly but appreciate additional features and support. The lack of ongoing costs and the extensive community support make the open-source version appealing, while the enterprise edition offers advanced functionalities for those willing to pay.