Jenkins vs VMware Tanzu Platform comparison

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Jenkins and Broadcom are both solutions in the Build Automation category. Jenkins is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.9, while Broadcom is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0. Jenkins holds a 10.7% mindshare in BA, compared to Broadcom’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Jenkins users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Jenkins and VMware Tanzu Platform compete in the CI/CD and cloud-native application management category. Jenkins has an advantage due to its extensive open-source community and plugin ecosystem, while VMware Tanzu leads in integration with VMware's own products.

Features: Jenkins is known for its extensive plugin ecosystem, robust community support, and flexibility in integrating with third-party tools. It offers strong support for its CI/CD capabilities. VMware Tanzu Platform excels in integrating with VMware products like vSphere and efficiently managing Kubernetes clusters. Its seamless integration with VMware’s infrastructure stands out.

Room for Improvement: Jenkins could improve its plugin stability, user interface, and integration with cloud services. Enhancing plugin documentation and streamlining would be beneficial. VMware Tanzu could improve its integration with non-VMware products, networking controls, and application-level tracing. Pricing is also a concern following VMware's acquisition by Broadcom.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jenkins is easy to deploy on-premises due to its open-source nature, but it lacks official support, relying on community help. VMware Tanzu offers robust hybrid cloud deployments with official support, though this comes at a higher cost. VMware Tanzu users often benefit from the official support, unlike the community-reliant model of Jenkins.

Pricing and ROI: Jenkins provides significant ROI as a free, open-source tool, leading to cost savings, relying mainly on self-support and custom solutions. VMware Tanzu, while offering extensive features, involves more expensive subscription costs and generally targets larger enterprises by bundling with other VMware products.

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Categories and Ranking

Jenkins

Ranking in Build Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Tanzu Platform

Ranking in Build Automation

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (12th), Cloud Management (33rd), Development Platforms (5th), Container Management (9th), Service Mesh (8th), Agile and DevOps Services (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Jenkins is 10.7%, up from 8.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Tanzu Platform is 2.6%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Jenkins	10.7%
VMware Tanzu Platform	2.6%
Other	86.7%

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Featured Reviews

Harsh Goenka

Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Automated pipelines have halved deployment time and allow developers to focus only on coding

The best features that Jenkins offers me are high customizability along with the support of Groovy language, which allows me to write my own functions and logic to deploy applications and configure the pipeline according to my use case. Its high integration capability with many plugins is also a significant advantage. For example, we have certain cloud functions running on Google Cloud Run, and we deploy those in the form of containers. Jenkins is highly integratable with Docker through plugins, so we installed those plugins in Jenkins and provided the credentials and logic for execution. Additionally, we have a Bitbucket environment and AWS deployments where we also use Jenkins' strong AWS plugins to deploy resources effectively. Thanks to these plugins, it's easy to deploy rather than creating custom logic. I have covered pretty much everything about the features of Jenkins.

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ErmiasGirma

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

Has supported container-based deployments and improved infrastructure visibility through monitoring tools

Aria Operations, formerly known as VMware vRealize Operations, has been renamed to vROps. We are currently using this for monitoring purposes. For orchestration, we are using VCD to automate Telco Cloud. VCD is an automation tool, and we are also using VMware Tanzu Platform for the Kubernetes environment, alongside TKG, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. These are also other solutions for the Tanzu Kubernetes environment. For Telco Cloud, we are using it to automate our company's operations, which is for a telecom company. We are familiar with these products, especially vCenter, ESXi, VCD, vCF, and vROps. It is very easy to integrate applications when we deploy vCenter and ESXi since we can enable vSphere with Tanzu feature. We can build namespaces and provide application developers the platform to deploy their applications on pods within containerization. We can easily manage, pull results, and create containers efficiently, making it a simple way to handle applications. We provide namespace labels for application developers, and we can manage their resources along with other aspects easily. Regarding security, we use many tools such as CDX and LDAP, AD for integrating our Kubernetes cluster with the developer teams. We can manage roles and permissions simply. It is very straightforward to integrate with EDX and other third-party tools, Active Directory, to the Kubernetes cluster, allowing easy access and management.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Jenkins is a great solution if you're looking at automation because it reduces manual work and improves performance."

"It is open source, flexible, scalable, and easy to use. It is easy to maintain for the administrator. It is a continuous integration tool, and its enterprise version is quite mature. It has good integrations and plug-ins. Azure DevOps can also be integrated with Jenkins."

"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."

"We used it for all continuous integration parts, like automation testing, deployment, etc."

"Jenkins has allowed for streamlined automated testing, building, and smoke testing of release candidates."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features, as we can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections."

"Jenkins is the most popular automation engine in the world."

"Jenkins is a very mature product; it has got a lot of support as far as integrating Jenkins with other tools is concerned, with many plugins available in both open-source and commercial ecosystems, and it is easy to configure, easy to scale, and the initial setup is easy."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to check the flow of all the different variants within our applications."

"Tazu is a developer-friendly and highly mature product."

"We never experienced any problems with scalability."

"The most important thing about the solution is its flexibility."

"With Tanzu Mission Control, you get a total solution with only one provider."

"We can build namespaces and provide application developers the platform to deploy their applications on pods within containerization, and we can easily manage, pull results, and create containers efficiently, making it a simple way to handle applications."

"Tanzu is easy to upgrade and scale, whether we're talking about horizontal or vertical scaling. It is as smooth as possible without any downtime. The platform maintenance, upgrading, and operations part is very smooth."

"The solution is integrated very well with a lot of other systems. Also, its GUI is very good."

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Cons

"The default settings do not work properly on Mac OS X."

"The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."

"We sometimes face challenges during version upgrades, such as failures when migrating Kubernetes versions."

"There is no way for the cloud repositories to trigger Jenkins."

"Creating a new SonarQube project requires a separate job, and we've encountered some integration issues with Docker and the need for better vulnerability checks."

"It does not have a very user-friendly interface."

"UI is quite outdated."

"Improvement-wise, I would want the solution's user interface to be changed for the better. In short, the solution can be made more user-friendly."

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"One potential area for expansion would be leveraging AI capabilities, which my customer might be interested in exploring as they grow."

"The network control and security policies must be improved."

"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions such as HPE."

"Tanzu could provide more granular control over whatever networking is being done on the containers. I would also like to see a slightly more detailed view of application-level tracing. I'm referring to the connections between different microservices. If they added a service-matching feature, that would be helpful for the customers to build or be more effective."

"Having a unified dashboard to manage all infrastructure, whether it involves additional IT infrastructure or modern apps, would be highly advantageous"

"The infrastructure is quite challenging."

"This product doesn't have a GUI. In order to use it properly, I need to connect it to a new GUI or build a GUI to manage it — it's pretty difficult."

"The installation of VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is very complex."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open source."

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

"Jenkins is open source."

"Some of the add-ons are too expensive."

"Jenkins is open source and free."

"We use the tool's open-source version which is free. There is an enterprise version which is expensive but comes with better support."

"It is a free product."

"The tool is open-source."

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"The price of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is greater than that of Red Hat's competitor solution"

"The solution is bundled in with Cloud Foundry so the pricing is not independent."

"VMware Tanzu Mission Control is cheaper than Red Hat OpenShift."

"One of our Spanish customers told us that VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is a very expensive product for their data center."

"The solution is only for large or medium size enterprises because it is expensive."

"The least expensive licensing cost for VMware is around $350 per core."

"Its pricing is very competitive. We get around 70% or 75%, sometimes even 80%, discount on the product. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."

"The product is not expensive, but it is not cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	58

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jenkins?

We are using a community version of Jenkins and did not purchase it through the AWS Marketplace. The main cost for using Jenkins is related to the server it is hosted on and the allocated capacity....

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What needs improvement with Jenkins?

Jenkins has many outdated plugins, and several are paid, which can be unnecessary. Better plugin maintainability is needed, and given the AI advancements today, AI support in Jenkins would be benef...

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Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Concourse for VMware Tanzu?

The least expensive licensing cost for VMware is around $350 per core. Pricing varies based on commitment and volumetric, with discounts provided for long-term commitments. VMware sells directly or...

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What needs improvement with Concourse for VMware Tanzu?

The price is very high compared to other Kubernetes environments because Kubernetes is open source. We can easily work with Docker, and when we compare it with OpenShift, the price is very high. We...

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Overview

Jenkins is an open-source automation server known for its extensive plugin ecosystem and seamless integration with a broad range of tools, enhancing CI/CD processes.

As an automation server, Jenkins streamlines development workflows by managing continuous integration and deployment with powerful pipeline support and distributed build capabilities. Its strong community backbone and ease of use contribute to its ongoing appeal. While highly versatile, Jenkins can encounter scalability and plugin management issues, with areas like cloud integration and security needing attention. It supports automation for build, test, and deployment, ensuring smoother software delivery and infrastructure management across environments.

What are Jenkins's key features?

Extensive Plugin Ecosystem: Allows seamless tool integration.
Open-Source Nature: Backed by a strong community.
CI/CD Optimization: Streamlines development workflows.
Pipeline Support: Facilitates complex scripting.
Distributed Build Management: Efficiently handles multiple environments.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in reviews?

Automation Capabilities: Reduces manual effort.
Scalability: Adapts to growing project needs.
Integration Versatility: Works well with tools like Git.
Community Support: Offers practical solutions and resources.
Ease of Use: Simplifies complex automation processes.

Jenkins is implemented in industries focused on continuous software delivery and infrastructure management, including technology firms, finance sectors needing robust deployment pipelines, and enterprise environments requiring complex workflow automation. Companies leverage its automation to enhance productivity and minimize errors in development processes.

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VMware Tanzu Platform is designed for cloud-native development and management of Kubernetes, CI/CD processes, microservices, and containerized workloads. It supports deployments both on cloud and on-premises, providing centralized management via Mission Control.

VMware Tanzu Platform offers seamless integration with vSphere, ESX, and vSAN, supporting centralized cluster management and lifecycle management. The platform provides a GUI for monitoring CI/CD pipelines and network policies, enhancing multi-tenancy and Day 2 operations. Users can easily manage Kubernetes clusters, monitor applications, and integrate with tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Foundry, and Azure. It ensures compliance and security for service providers, financial institutions, and businesses.

What are the key features of VMware Tanzu Platform?

Integration with vSphere, ESX, and vSAN: Enhances compatibility and flexibility.
Seamless Cluster Management: Centralized control over Kubernetes clusters.
CI/CD Pipelines and Network Policies: Simplifies monitoring and management.
Multi-tenancy Support: Facilitates resource sharing among multiple users.
Comprehensive Lifecycle Management: Streamlines deployment and scalability.
Observability Platform: Provides enhanced visibility and control.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in VMware Tanzu Platform reviews?

Centralized Management: Simplifies operations and reduces manual effort.
Enhanced Compliance and Security: Meets regulatory requirements.
Flexibility in Deployment: Supports both cloud and on-premises options.
Seamless Integration: Works with multiple vendors and tools.
Developer-Friendly Environment: Improves productivity and innovation.

Industries such as financial institutions, service providers, and businesses requiring rigorous compliance and security deploy VMware Tanzu Platform. These entities benefit from centralized management, streamlined DevOps processes, and integrated tools, enhancing their capabilities in cloud-native developments and containerized workloads.

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