"Stable and scalable configuration management and automation tool. Installing it is easy. Its most valuable feature is its compliance, e.g. it's very good."
"Jenkins is very stable."
"We are using the open-source version and there is a lot of plugins and features that are available and it works on agents for free. In other solutions, it will cost extra to use them with the agent."
"Jenkins can be used for elastic management, if you have any sensitive data or credentials you can use them across the environment. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and can be used across multiple use cases."
"The initial setup is simple."
"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful."
"Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
"Support and pricing for Chef could be improved."
"Some kind of SaaS product would be helpful in providing organizational structure."
"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."
"The documentation could be more friendly, and more examples of how to use it."
"There is no way for the cloud repositories to trigger Jenkins."
"For this solution to be a 10, it has to be a lot more stable. Maybe the public version of Jenkins is stable, but in our case it's not stable."
"It could be cheaper."
"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."
"The UI of Jenkins could improve."
Chef is ranked 9th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 27 reviews. Chef is rated 7.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Chef writes "Easy to install configuration management and automation tool with a good compliance feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "We can do whatever we want and customize as much as we wish to in any programming language". Chef is most compared with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Azure DevOps, BigFix and BMC TrueSight Server Automation, whereas Jenkins is most compared with Tekton, Bamboo, IBM Rational Build Forge, AWS CodePipeline and GNU Make.
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