Bamboo vs GitLab vs Jenkins comparison

"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."

"The tool is useful for continuous deployment."

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

"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."

"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."

"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."

"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."

"Bamboo was used extensively in our organization for PCA compliance."

"I recommend GitLab for DevOps engineers."

"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."

"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."

"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."

"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."

"I like GitLab's security and SAS tools."

"GitLab's source control is excellent."

"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."

"Automation of chores like deployment, frequent manual tasks (like running scripts on test and production systems) reduced the time used and the number of errors made by engineers, freeing them to do meaningful work instead."

"Distributed execution of build and test jobs."

"The initial setup is pretty simple."

"We have started to integrate Pipelines as a part of a build, and built a library of common functions. It simplified and made our build scripts more readable."

"We benefit from Kubernetes' ability to autoscale pods and use horizontal pod autoscalers to adjust the number of pods based on metrics like CPU or memory usage, ensuring efficient resource allocation and stability under load."

"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."

"Continuous Integration. Jenkins can integrate with almost any systems used for application development and testing, with its plugins."

"The most valuable aspect of Jenkins is pipeline customization. Jenkins provides a declarative pipeline as well as a scripted pipeline. The scripted pipeline uses a programming language. You can customize it to your needs, so we use Jenkins because other solutions like Travis and Spinnaker don't allow much customization."

"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."

"The tool is not capable of using YAML efficiently."

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

"Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins were very limited."

"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."

"It can be challenging for someone new to the system or ecosystem to grasp, making it difficult to train new people and help them understand."

"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."

"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."

"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."

"GitLab should work on improving their user interface for GitOps as it is lagging behind."

"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."

"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."

"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."

"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."

"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."

"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."

"The scriptwriting process could be improved in this solution in the future."

"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."

"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of an Artifactory (Universal artifact repository manager)."

"Integrating Jenkins with other tools or solutions has presented some challenges. For instance, when attempting to integrate Jenkins with Kubernetes, I encountered numerous errors, which took several days to resolve. In Jenkins, adding a feature typically involves incorporating the repository feature separately. Jenkins lacks built-in Git repository functionality, necessitating an external Git repository to store Jenkins manifests."

"Sometimes, random errors of metadata are not there, which causes delays. These are essentially gaps in the information being passed to the job."

"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."

"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

"I rate the solution's pricing a three out of five."

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"If Bamboo could provide more flexibility on pricing, that would help. On the agent side, if you want to increase the number of agents it should be less expensive. If they can provide some better pricing model, it will help, whether we are going to use it or are already using it."

"The server products for small teams used to offer excellent pricing. However, Atlassian has since changed the offering and the pricing is more expensive. I do still think the solution offers good value for money."

"The price of Bamboo is reasonable."

"As I work in a vast enterprise, I'm unsure about the licensing cost for GitLab. It's the management team that takes care of that."

"There are different licensing options available, including a free limited-user license."

"I'm not aware of the licensing costs because those were covered by the customer."

"This is an open-source solution."

"We are using the free version of GitLab."

"GitLab is cheap."

"GitLab is a free solution to use."

"GitLab's pricing is good compared to others on the market."

"It's free software with a big community behind it, which is very good."

"There is no cost. It is open source."

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

"The solution is open source."

"It is a free product."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

"In our company, we do pay for the licensing of the solution."