Bamboo vs GoCD vs Jenkins comparison

"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."

"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 useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."

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

"We use Bamboo to automate all our test builds and deployments. It integrates with tools like the ReportPortal to help us check and evaluate processes. When we initiate commands, it automatically checks for scaling issues or failures related to new code. Based on these evaluations, it provides reports in the ReportPortal, helping us decide whether to implement changes."

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

"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."

"It can do the CI pipeline well."

"The most notable aspect is its user interface, which we find to be user-friendly and straightforward for deploying and comprehending pipelines. We have the ability to create multiple pipelines, and in addition to that, the resource consumption is impressive."

"GoCD's open-source nature is valuable."

"Permission separations mean that we can grant limited permissions for each team or team member."

"The UI is colorful."

"Jenkins is very stable."

"Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes."

"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."

"For business needs, Jenkins is the most relevant choice because it can be self-hosted, the price is good, it’s robust, and requires almost no effort for maintenance."

"Jenkins is very customizable."

"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."

"Very easy to understand for newcomers."

"Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes."

"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."

"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."

"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."

"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."

"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."

"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."

"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."

"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."

"The documentation really should be improved by including real examples and more setup cases."

"It is difficult to assign different access levels because it relies on separate keys for developer and admin access, which could be simplified."

"The aspect that requires attention is the user management component. When integrating with BitLabs and authenticating through GitLab, there are specific features we desire. One important feature is the ability to import users directly from GitLab, along with their respective designations, and assign appropriate privileges based on that information. Allocating different privileges to users is a time-consuming process for us."

"The tool must be more user-friendly."

"UI is quite outdated."

"I think an integrated help button, that respected the context of the change/work in hand, would be a worthwhile improvement."

"I do not have any notes for improvement."

"This solution could be improved by removing the storage of unnecessary data such as the history of test deployments that were unsuccessful."

"There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script."

"We need more licensed product integrations."

"The user interface could be updated a little."

"Logging could be improved to offer a clearer view."

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

"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."

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

"There is a subscription required to use Bamboo."

"This is an open-source solution and it is inexpensive."

"It's an open-source and free tool."

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

"I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

"It could be cheaper because there are many solutions available in the market. We are paying yearly."

"The open-source version is free, but small companies would not be able to afford the cloud-based version."

"The solution is one of the lowest costs compared to competitors."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

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