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Rajeshkumar Gone - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Aviso AI
Real User
Oct 12, 2022
A good web development solution that lacks in mobile development functionality
Pros and Cons
  • "We really appreciate that this solution is plug and play, and when coding in the version control system, this product completes the build process automatically."
  • "We would like to see the addition of mobile simulators support to this solution, as part of its open-source offering. We currently have to carry out manual testing for these platforms."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution to build, test, and then deploy new software to the FTP server.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution has improved our organization with how much time it saves when coding.

What is most valuable?

We really appreciate that this solution is plug and play. When coding in the version control system, this product completes the build process automatically.

What needs improvement?

We would like to see the addition of mobile simulators support to this solution, as part of its open-source offering. We currently have to carry out manual testing for these platforms.

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For how long have I used the solution?

We have worked with this solution for around four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have found the stability of this solution to be good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Due to the lack of mobile simulators, we have not scaled this solution.

How are customer service and support?

We have not had to contact the technical support team; the official documentation provided has resolved any issues we came across.

How was the initial setup?

We found the initial setup of this solution to be okay. The setup isn't complicated, but there is some step by step documentation provided that will need to be read and followed during the process.

The deployment of the product took one or two days initially, and only took one person to action.

What about the implementation team?

We carried out implementation and deployment of this product using our in-house team.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

This is an open-source solution for the basic features. However, if an organization wishes to include specific functionality, outside of the basic package, there are extra costs involved.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We previously trialed an AWS-based product. However, it was complex to use and conflicted with some of our existing software.

What other advice do I have?

We highly recommend this solution for web development. However, for mobile development, it may be better for organizations to consider other options.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Nelson Hernandez Guerra - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer Senior Genexus 16 Analyst at Migrate Brasil
Real User
Sep 29, 2022
An open source automation server that helps you build anything
Pros and Cons
  • "I love Jenkins. I like that you work on anything, and you make anything. Jenkins is very important for my team. I am satisfied with the product."
  • "Jenkins can be improved, but it's difficult for me to explain. The initial setup could be more straightforward. If you connect Jenkins with bookings and lockouts, it can be challenging."

What is our primary use case?

We use Jenkins for deploying with GenX and work on the pipeline too. We engage in many activities using both Jenkins and GenX. 

What is most valuable?

I love Jenkins. I like that you work on anything, and you make anything. Jenkins is very important for my team. I am satisfied with the product.

What needs improvement?

Jenkins can be improved, but it's difficult for me to explain. The initial setup could be more straightforward. If you connect Jenkins with bookings and lockouts, it can be challenging.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Jenkins for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Jenkins is a stable product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Jenkins is a scalable solution. We have ten people using this product right now.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support was very good.

On a scale from one to five, I would give technical support a five.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup depends on the project and related activities.

What about the implementation team?

I have implemented this solution myself, and I have also used a consultant on other occasions.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend Jenkins to potential users. You can use Jenkins with other products and make anything you like. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Jenkins a ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Fatih Mehmet HARMANCI - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Testing Services Manager at Virgosol
Real User
Aug 9, 2022
Easy to use, readily available documents online, but time planning could be better
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of Jenkins are the ease of use and the information about how to use the features is readily available on the internet. Additionally, with the solution, I can use other reporting tools, such as Flow."
  • "Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."

What is our primary use case?

Jenkins is used for triggering my test automation. I use Selenium WebDriver for test automation.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of Jenkins are the ease of use and the information about how to use the features is readily available on the internet. Additionally, with the solution, I can use other reporting tools, such as Flow.

What needs improvement?

Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Jenkins for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Jenkins has been stable in my usage. However, I have had colleagues say they have had stability problems. They experienced these problems after six months to a year of use.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have approximately four engineers using Jenkins and they use it as needed. It could be weekly or monthly.

How are customer service and support?

There is not any support for the solution since it is open-source. However, you can find all the information needed online.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

For triggering I use Jenkins, but for local systems, I used Selenium WebDriver. Additionally, I have used Cypress.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Jenkins is in the medium-difficult range.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Jenkins is a free solution, it is open source.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Jenkins a seven out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Senior Team Lead at Peristent Systems
Real User
Jul 12, 2022
Simple setup, high availability, and scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis, and additionally we connect it with other vulnerability tools such as WhiteSource which is useful."
  • "Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."

What is our primary use case?

We use Jenkins for management purposes.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful.

What needs improvement?

Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Jenkins for approximately two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Jenkins is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have found Jenkins to be scalable.

We have different teams within our company using this solution with different types of setups. We have approximately 25 users using the solution.

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted the support from Jenkins.

How was the initial setup?

The initial implementation of Jenkins is simple.

What about the implementation team?

The installation of Jenkins is done by our team.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Jenkins an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Samim Kumar Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect & Devops engineer at KdmConsulting
Real User
Jul 6, 2022
Stable, secure, with good plugins
Pros and Cons
  • "Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."
  • "Jenkins needs a faster deployment process."
  • "The setup of Jenkins takes a lot of time. Having faster deployment would be helpful."

What is our primary use case?

Jenkins has good plugins and a secure platform.

What is most valuable?

I have to take the source code, build it, and test it with SonarQube. After passing it, I make the container, and with this container, we deploy to Kubernetes.

What needs improvement?

Even though you can get into the public cloud, they have to improve the base layer on marketplaces.  

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Jenkins for the past three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Jenkins is as stable as the public cloud. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

You have to manually scale Jenkins.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The setup of Jenkins takes a lot of time. Having faster deployment would be helpful.

What other advice do I have?

The time has come for companies to move to containers. I believe that Kubernetes services are based on the customer's needs in a secure manner. People will go with AWS or GCP.

I would rate Jenkins an eight on a scale of one to ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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reviewer1454061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Line manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 3, 2022
Easy to use, effective plugins, and straightforward installation
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of Jenkins are its ease of use and good plugins available, and you are able to connect to a lot of solutions."
  • "Jenkins can improve by continuing to add additional plugins for all the new solutions that are coming out within the cloud sphere."

What is our primary use case?

When have to execute continuous testing with schedules and after test, if we want to run additional validation and verification we use Jenkins. 

Jenkin can do additional validation of our test executions of the results and collects data points.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of Jenkins are its ease of use and good plugins available. You are able to connect to a lot of solutions.

What needs improvement?

Jenkins can improve by continuing to add additional plugins for all the new solutions that are coming out within the cloud sphere.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Jenkins for approximately two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of Jenkins has been good in my usage.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Jenkins has been scalable.

How are customer service and support?

I have not needed to contact the support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have previously used Bamboo, but it is a smaller solution than Jenkins.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Jenkins is straightforward. The process took a couple of minutes.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We are using the freeware version of Jenkins.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend Jenkins to others.

I rate Jenkins a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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reviewer1864587 - PeerSpot reviewer
Java Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 2, 2022
Helps with continuous integration but onboarding could be smoother
Pros and Cons
  • "Jenkins is stable, user-friendly, and helps with continuous integration. As of today, I can't see any tool that's better than Jenkins."
  • "The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers."

What is our primary use case?

I primarily use Jenkins to deploy APIs for microservices, creating pipelines and providing the source code link.

How has it helped my organization?

Jenkins helps to maintain continuous integration whenever we make changes in the code and to deploy the code whenever we do any check-ins.

What needs improvement?

The onboarding of Jenkins should be smoother, and it should have more pipelines available as it's deployed on many different servers. We should be able to do minimal configuration changes and deploy our API from multiple regions like AWS, GCP, or virtual environments like VM.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Jenkins for six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Jenkins works perfectly well - we've never faced any outages or issues with it.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup isn't difficult.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented using an in-house team.

What other advice do I have?

Jenkins is stable, user-friendly, and helps with continuous integration. As of today, I can't see any tool that's better than Jenkins. If you have very few APIs which can be deployed manually, I wouldn't recommend Jenkins. However, I would recommend it for those with multiple APIs and many clients, who are doing code changes on a daily basis. I would give Jenkins a rating of seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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Sherief Shawky - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager at Intellisc
Real User
Apr 9, 2022
Open-source with a short learning curve but cloud repositories can't trigger on-prem Jenkins systems
Pros and Cons
  • "It has a lot of community posts and support."
  • "We have branches in Egypt and branches in Dubai that are using Jenkins for the whole automation process and we're really enjoying using it."
  • "There is no way for the cloud repositories to trigger Jenkins."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for the whole automation cycle for the deployments. We are using Jenkins and pipelines for once commits or push commits on Bitbucket or directories. Jenkins is listening for those changes and is applying (or triggered by) the repository changes to deploy and run the test cases, automate test cases, and deploy them on servers for the deployment, testing, or production.

What is most valuable?

It's open-source and free to use.

The learning curve for Jenkins is not a big deal. It has a lot of community posts and support. 

The initial setup is simple. 

We have found the solution to be stable.

It is my understanding that the solution can scale. 

What needs improvement?

Jenkins is on-premise (on our infrastructure) and Bitbucket or Azure directories are on the cloud. Therefore, triggering from the repositories to the on-premise, Jenkins is not applicable. We are trying to reach them now, and we are currently using a plan or a process to listen to the repositories every once in a while to know if there are no new changes applied. It triggers the automation for the deployment and the running test cases, and therefore it may take two minutes or three minutes to have the deployment done after the latest commit. This is due to the fact that we are using on-premise Jenkins for on-premise deployment, yet have the repositories on the cloud. There is no way for the cloud repositories to trigger Jenkins. We are trying to research now how to have the Jenkins over a public IP, so the repositories can trigger it.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been dealing with Jenkins for around three years now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The product is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Although it is my understanding the solution can scale, we don't have much information about scalability for the Jenkins. We didn't investigate scaling yet.

How are customer service and support?

We tend to search for solutions online. I've never reached out to technical support. I rely more on the community. 

How was the initial setup?

It's pretty straightforward to set up the product. The DevOps team just took around two weeks or three weeks for the first deployment, for automation for the first deployment using Jenkins. It fulfilled our requirements. DevOps is not a target by itself, DevOps is an operation to remove any pain areas, or time-consuming tasks, or to automate it to have it in seconds. It fulfills our requirements.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The product is open-source.

What other advice do I have?

For the development environment, we are using the on-premise infrastructure. For some customers we are also using on-premise; for other customers, we are using the cloud.

We have branches in Egypt and branches in Dubai that are using Jenkins for the whole automation process and we're really enjoying using it.

I would recommend the solution to others.

I'd give it a rating of seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Software Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 1, 2021
Links well to a repository and is stable and scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."
  • "Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use cases include manifest generation and publishing modules.

How has it helped my organization?

Whenever we do releases, it goes to Jenkins to publish a version of the application and the version being released. Jenkins plays a big role in this process.

What is most valuable?

GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins.

It is a stable solution and is generally scalable.

What needs improvement?

Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job. This could be reduced and would save a lot of time.

Jenkins runs in correlation with GitHub but can only run one job at a time. Also, that job is a pre-selected job. So, if you select a particular job, then that job would run for all your pull requests. It would be amazing if for pull request one, for example, I could do build one, and for pull request two, I could do build two.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been working with Jenkins for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's quite stable and pretty reliable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

To a large extent, it is scalable; after that, some manual interference is required at certain points.

In our company, everybody works with Jenkins, so we have more than 10,000-20,000 users.

How are customer service and support?

I am satisfied with the technical support services.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend Jenkins and would rate it at nine on a scale from one to ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user1670496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 22, 2021
Great automation which saves time, has a good interface, and is reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
  • "Jenkins is a great solution if you're looking at automation because it reduces manual work and improves performance."
  • "Logging could be improved to offer a clearer view."
  • "I think the logs could be improved so that anyone using the build for the first time gets a better view as to how it's performing, what the data is, and what processing is occurring."

What is our primary use case?

I'm a software engineer at a large bank. 

How has it helped my organization?

Jenkins increases our performance efficiency and saves us a significant amount of time.

What is most valuable?

We were initially SQL-based until we moved to object-oriented language and started hosting our code on Jenkins. The main benefit for us is the automation and we've done it in such a way that you only need to run one build that triggers itself and the rest of the builds downstream. We're moving most of our builds over to Jenkins because of all the automation it offers. It has a good interface, is reliable, and saves time. 

What needs improvement?

I think the logs could be improved so that anyone using the build for the first time gets a better view as to how it's performing, what the data is, and what processing is occurring. I'd like to see errors displayed differently. It currently takes an effort to find out where an error is and I think the error message and logging which is not jargon-based, is something I would like to see included.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution. We are a team of 25 people, all working with Jenkins in some way or other, whether it's the finance data adapter or the magnet platform, which is totally Java-based and uses Jenkins. We have mainly software engineers and a few business analysts on the team. We also have a maintenance team that deals with any issues that come up.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have tried the partial plugin for Jenkins which we use for regression and analysis and it works well. 

How are customer service and technical support?

Our technical support is all in-house. All software deployment information is available online and it's pretty easy to follow. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have a license contract with Jenkins. 

What other advice do I have?

Jenkins is a great solution if you're looking at automation because it reduces manual work and improves performance. If you deploy it on cloud, then performance is improved further. It's worth reducing dependency by targeting a one-build solution for Jenkins. 

I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Other
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