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CloudBees pros and cons

Vendor: CloudBees
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

CloudBees offers a flexible and straightforward deployment process, with features like one-click cluster deployment.
Frequent updates from CloudBees enable features such as SSL login and automated auditing, providing ongoing enhancements.
Customer support is responsive, with representatives who understand and address user requirements effectively.
CloudBees excels in automation, providing scalable solutions for automating pipeline setups and reducing manual intervention.
CloudBees integrates with multiple systems, such as GitHub and PDM, offering seamless connectivity across various platforms.

CONS

Errors have no preview at the point of occurrence.
Stability issues are prevalent, with frequent pipeline failures after merging.
CloudBees CI experiences reduced speed and availability, with some performance issues related to applications running many pipelines and pipeline failures.
Permissions often shift from the CloudBees user to the root user, causing pipeline execution failures.
Setup is complex, requiring a cloud architect and engineer.
 

CloudBees Pros review quotes

KishoreKumar4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Qe Lead at Cognizant
Apr 7, 2026
CloudBees is a good and efficient tool.
YashBrahmani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at BNP Paribas CIB
Aug 30, 2024
It’s a very good tool for auditing your project pipelines as well.
LK
Sr. Software engineer at Fedex
Oct 17, 2024
The most beneficial aspect is that CloudBees integrates with everything, like version one, GitHub, and PDM.
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Roland Sodeyi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at ICAP
Aug 23, 2024
The most valuable feature of the solution is that its GUI is quite simple.
Jonatas L. R. Costa - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer Analyst at BRQ Digital Solutions
Sep 16, 2024
The most valuable features are Java features, microservice communication, payment validation, Jenkins Sonar, management master to CloudBees, Blue Ocean, JobConfig, and support.
Nishant Narayan Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 3, 2024
CloudBees updates its features frequently, so if we need something like SSL login, they enable it.
RiteshWalia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Sep 2, 2024
Scalability largely depends on how the tool is set up within your infrastructure
Jagadish Sahoo - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Engineer at HSBC
Aug 2, 2024
The customer support is good. You get good representatives from CloudBees to help you and understand your requirements.
Sinthusan Thangarajah - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 3, 2024
CloudBees assists by automating tasks, previously done manually, in the pipeline setup.
Aaron Sarkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 3, 2024
CloudBees is a user-friendly tool.
 

CloudBees Cons review quotes

KishoreKumar4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Qe Lead at Cognizant
Apr 7, 2026
For CloudBees, I can suggest that the log is very high, which is very hectic for us when trying to find which error is coming.
YashBrahmani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at BNP Paribas CIB
Aug 30, 2024
A lot of stability issues are there with CloudBees.
LK
Sr. Software engineer at Fedex
Oct 17, 2024
It could improve the document upload process.
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Roland Sodeyi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at ICAP
Aug 23, 2024
I think a preview of the errors would be good just at the point where the error occurs.
Jonatas L. R. Costa - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer Analyst at BRQ Digital Solutions
Sep 16, 2024
The user interface of CloudBees is good but could be even more intuitive. Improving the user-friendliness of the interface and having simpler setup configurations would greatly benefit new users.
Nishant Narayan Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 3, 2024
I would like to see improved speed and availability.
RiteshWalia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Sep 2, 2024
We did face some challenges, particularly with the infrastructure.
Jagadish Sahoo - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Engineer at HSBC
Aug 2, 2024
One challenge I'd like to highlight is that with CloudBees CI growing bigger and bigger, there are limitations in terms of managing old plugins and services and upgrading them with time.
Sinthusan Thangarajah - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 3, 2024
Sometimes, there are performance issues, however, they may be due to our organization's configuration.
Aaron Sarkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 3, 2024
The problem with CloudBees is that when you merge it, the pipelines would randomly fail multiple times.