We performed a comparison between Harness and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Build Automation."It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"Has enabled full automation of the company."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."
"Jenkins is very stable."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the integration of automatic scripts for testing and the user's ability to use any script."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that there are multiple features. We can abstract certain variables and then build our deployment routine while being able to do some abstraction onto the SSH connections."
"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."
"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
"They need to improve their documentation."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"Jenkins is not an easy solution to use and the configuration is not simple. They can improve the solution by adding a graphical interface that is more user-friendly."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"Tasks such as deployment, cloning, database switchover, and all other database missions and tasks are being done through Jenkins. If a job does not go through, at times the error message does not clearly indicate what caused the failure. I have to escalate it to the Jenkins DevOps team just to see what caused the failure. If the error message is clear, then I wouldn't have to escalate the issue to different teams."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of an Artifactory (Universal artifact repository manager)."
"Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement."
"The documentation on plugin development could be better: more examples. "
Harness is ranked 8th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Harness is rated 7.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". Harness is most compared with Tekton, Bamboo, TeamCity, GitHub Actions and GitLab, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Bazel.
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