Bamboo Reviews

This is a part of the CI/CD. We use this tool to move into production. 

It does automation which saves time so that people don't have to waste time. We save around 20% on time. 

It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services. 

It doesn't take up other resources. It's very efficient. 

It's a little outdated. It's three years old. 

I have only used Bamboo at my current company and I've been there for a year now. 

It is very stable. We have experienced issues but there is alway support.

We are upgrading to the latest version because of the scalability. 

I usually solve any problems we have by myself. If for whatever reason there isn't any information available online we contact their support and they get back to us within hours. I opened around five to ten tickets with them. 

They have very stable pricing. The license is 120,000 per year for the license and maintenance.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. Not a ten because the GUI is old I always have to find the right plugin.

My advice to someone considering this solution is that if you have the money, buy it. 

• Multiple build agents for both Windows and Linux
• Automatic branch building - same build plan for trunk and branches
• Connections with other Atlassian tools - JIRA and FishEye/Crucible

We have many developer teams building in Java, especially our Continuous Integration team. Bamboo has proven its value for the teams.

There are no areas that need improvement.

I've used it for seven years,

No issues encountered.

Once, with Java 6, there were some issues, but thanks to information from Atlassian support we changed to Java 7 and it works fine.

No issues encountered.

I'm satisfied, 8/10.

I'm satisfied, 8/10.

We used CruiseControl, and we switched because of better functionality in Bamboo.

It was straightforward, as the default agent and remote agents install out-of-the-box. Only some memory tuning was needed.

We did it in-house.

It's hard to say, the yearly license/support/maintenance costs are low in relation to the added functionality.

I see no problem in paying for support, especially because licensing is remote agent based.

• CruiseControl
• Hudson

It's dependent on how many build teams you have. For small development sites, Hudson or Jenkins will suffice, I think. Because we’re building our main applications in-house, we always choose supported and licensed tools.

• Integration with Atlassian products like Jira,Crowd, and Stash
• Easy to setup
• Price

• With Bamboo's integration with Jira, we were able to update build status and test reports to Jira bugs/tasks.
• In Stash, we were able to improve the pull request review standards by being able to review the build and test reports.
• Integration with Artifactory, helped us in auto updated libs and artifacts.
• APIs were helpful for creating customizations.

• Ease of use.
• It needs "re-build/Trigger build" switch from Stash Pullrequest.
• More 3rd party plugins to support IDEs.
• Integration of older plugins with newer version of Bamboo.
• More options for deployment plans
• Configuring tools to agents (Had to do it manually). It would be nice have sharing from server.
• -Docker support
• Limited options with SSH plugins, can't use options to it

Two to three years.

No issues with deployment.

Yes, Regular server/agent being down.

Yes, It needs to allow multiple plans to run on a agent(at same time). Dedicating one whole agent isn't fair, I know we have to buy more agents, but in-terms buying and maintaining more infrastructure isn't scalable either. .

Never used it. Had a decent responses from open forum.

Never used it.

Yes. since we wanted to keep Atlassian suite all-around.

Easy. Just like other Atlassian products.

We got the product for a cheap price, so its alright.

We initially got 5 agents for around $2000 excluding infrastructure setup. Now we are using docker containers to maximize the mileage on them.

If you are looking for good integration with Atlassian products and then this is the tool.

I find the solution quite easy to use. 

One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system.

The fact that it's integrated within Oracle products, and that it can be managing statutory people in our organization, and the features and functionality are all huge selling points. 

We felt Bamboo was a simple overall tool, and that it was also cheaper than Oracle's products at the time, which is why we chose it.

The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance.

I've been using the solution for about a year.

The solution is pretty stable.

The solution is scalable. We have about 400+ users on it currently. We use it on a daily basis, but I don't know if we plan to increase usage at this time.

We have our own in-house team that helps troubleshoot any issues we might have. If they can't resolve it, they may go to the Bamboo help desk.

I wasn't really involved in the implementation process so I can't really comment on it. 

We have two administrators on the solution currently.

We use the cloud deployment model.

I'd recommend that solution. Everything structure and systems-wise is quite customizable.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.