"The automation workflow in CircleCI related to third-party applications is very good and allows standardization of applications."
"We can schedule anything with Jenkins, which is useful for deployment or anything that requires scheduling. It also has multiple plugins we can use for Maven, JUnit, etc."
"Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
"Very easy to understand for newcomers."
"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."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
"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."
"It is easy to use."
"There needs to be some improvement in the user interface of CircleCI."
"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."
"Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."
"There is no way for the cloud repositories to trigger Jenkins."
"It could be cheaper."
"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."
"A more user-friendly UI for creating pipelines would be helpful."
"Jenkins could have better cloud functionality. Currently, we are using the existing legacy model, but we are moving toward the cloud, so it would be great if they could improve in that area. In the future, I would like more cloud features and related training materials, like a video tutorial."
"Logging could be improved to offer a clearer view."
CircleCI is ranked 12th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 27 reviews. CircleCI is rated 8.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CircleCI writes "Beneficial automation workflow and valuable application standardization". 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". CircleCI is most compared with AWS CodePipeline, Tekton, GoCD, TeamCity and Harness, whereas Jenkins is most compared with Tekton, Bamboo, IBM Rational Build Forge, AWS CodePipeline and Microsoft Azure.
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