Bamboo vs Tekton comparison

Atlassian and Google are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Atlassian is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0, while Google is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.9. Atlassian holds a 4.3% mindshare in BA, compared to Google’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Google users who would recommend it.

Bamboo

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78% willing to recommend

Tekton

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89% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Bamboo and Tekton compete in the CI/CD tools category. Bamboo has an advantage due to its strong integration with Atlassian products, while Tekton excels in Kubernetes-native deployments.

Features: Bamboo provides seamless integration with Jira and BitBucket, robust CI/CD capabilities, and customization options for managing complex pipelines. Tekton offers a Kubernetes-native architecture for scalable, cloud-native deployments, detailed customization, and automation in CI/CD pipelines.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bamboo is typically deployed on-premises and fits organizations with existing infrastructure, receiving praise for technical support with room for improvement in response times. Tekton supports hybrid and cloud-native deployments, aligning with Kubernetes environments, but relies heavily on community support for customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Bamboo's agent-based pricing can be costly for large-scale deployments, yet offers value through integration and automation capabilities. Tekton, as an open-source option, provides cost advantages without licensing fees, benefiting enterprises using Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

6.4

Bamboo yielded high returns with low costs, boosting efficiency and saving time, translating to significant financial gains.

Sentiment score

6.9

Tekton provides significant cost and time savings, enhancing scalability and efficiency compared to Jenkins with cloud-native features.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.2

Bamboo support is generally helpful, but users note service delays and prefer forums; satisfaction rates 6 to 8 out of 10.

Sentiment score

6.5

Tekton's support is effective with commendable Red Hat assistance, and many find community resources sufficient for issue resolution.

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.4

Bamboo's scalability is generally praised, but opinions vary based on remote agent technology and resource allocation challenges.

Sentiment score

6.8

Tekton excels in scalability within Kubernetes, but requires customization and improved resource allocation for seamless integration.

If you need more agents, you just switch on more agents.

Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.8

Bamboo is generally stable, with most issues resolved by upgrades; users rate it highly for robustness and stability.

Sentiment score

7.0

Tekton is praised for stability and integration with Kubernetes, though configuration and resource management issues can affect performance.

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Stability-wise, it is very stable, and we can seamlessly integrate.

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Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Bamboo requires better user-friendliness, plugin support, integration, API improvements, and enhanced deployment models for enhanced developer experience.

Tekton needs better tool integration, flexible pipelines, improved UI, enhanced APIs, and comprehensive documentation for easier use.

Machine learning and AI are in big demand at the moment.

Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

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Scalability means based on the load, it will automatically gain resources and run.

reviewer2741265

Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

Bamboo enterprise pricing starts at $2000, with agent-based fees rising to $120,000 annually, prompting calls for flexible models.

Tekton is a cost-effective, open-source tool for Kubernetes environments, offering savings over licensed alternatives like Jenkins.

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Valuable Features

Bamboo offers seamless Atlassian integration, customizable CI/CD pipelines, extensive automation, and third-party support, valued for ease of use.

Tekton excels in Kubernetes integration, scalability, and automation, streamlining CI/CD with flexibility and compatibility for diverse workflows.

The main benefits Bamboo provides for me and my team are the automation to pick up code changes and automate the deployments, building images.

Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

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Tekton is quite built on top of Kubernetes, so the learning curve is minimal.

reviewer2741265

Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Bamboo

Ranking in Build Automation

10th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tekton

Ranking in Build Automation

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Bamboo is 4.3%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tekton is 7.9%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tekton	7.9%
Bamboo	4.3%
Other	87.8%

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Featured Reviews

Christo Louw

Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Automation has streamlined build and deployment workflows and provides clear project reporting

Regarding improvements for Bamboo, I can't think of anything right now. Bamboo is serving the purpose that we needed it for. I would say pipelines for model building could be an area of focus. However, I can't really comment on that because I haven't looked at Bamboo to assist with machine learning pipelines. If they haven't focused on building MLOps pipelines, that's definitely an area where they could assist businesses. I haven't looked at what Bamboo offers for MLOps, so it's possible that they've already built in features. Machine learning and AI are in big demand at the moment. If they haven't focused too much on MLOps, that's probably where they can improve.

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reviewer2741265

Software engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Benefit from a smooth learning curve and efficient adaptability

After seeing Jenkins and Tekton, I think Tekton is quite built on top of Kubernetes, so the learning curve is minimal. If you are working with Kubernetes, then OpenShift created Tekton on top of that, making it easily adaptable. Tekton is highly customizable. With Kubernetes, we can customize on our own and create custom builders. If teams have time and want to make enhancements, they can do it themselves. Whatever OpenShift is providing regarding Tekton is sufficient. It is easy to use because we don't need to write every pod step every time. A proper DevOps engineer can help once or twice, and development teams can easily adapt to that, make small shell script changes in the steps, understand the process, and work with it.

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Senior iOS Developer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 27, 2015

Bamboo vs. Jenkins

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Government

13%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	22

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Bamboo?

Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bamboo?

I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five.

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What needs improvement with Bamboo?

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How does Tekton compare with Jenkins?

When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very e...

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What needs improvement with Tekton?

I didn't get the intention of scalability. Scalability means based on the load, it will automatically gain resources and run. The question of pipeline scalability remains unclear. It's quite easy t...

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What is your primary use case for Tekton?

We use Tekton for build and deployments. For LMP testing, we use the Tekton pipeline. We also use GitHub CI/CD. For infrastructure pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), we use Tekton. Previou...

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Overview

Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It works great alongside JIRA and Stash providing a fully traceable deployment pipeline.

Atlassian

Tekton is a powerful yet flexible Kubernetes-native open-source framework for creating continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems. It lets you build, test, and deploy across multiple cloud providers or on-premises systems by abstracting away the underlying implementation details.

Google

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The Home Depot, PayPal, Target, HSBC, McKesson, Oncology Venture

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